Overplus Charges deducted XVII No such Assessments to be made in any one year shall exceed 6 d. in the Pound of the yearly Value of Lands c. nor of 6 d. for 20 l. in personal Estate XVIII If any Persons find themselves aggrieved by such Assessments or any Act by the Justices of Peace the Justices of Peace at their General Quarter-Sessions shall take order therein which shall conclude all Parties XIX None shall be punished for any Offence against this Act unless he be prosecuted within six Months after the Offence committed nor shall any person punished by Virtue of this Act be punished for the same Offence by Virtue of any former Law XX. No Horse-cawsey shall be under Three Foot in breadth XXI The Justices of Peace for Middlesex may at their Quarter-Sessions make Rates for paving Kensington in such manner as is directed by an Act made in the second Year of Their Majesties Reign for Paving and Cleansing the Streets of London and Westminster XXII All matters concerning High-ways c. shall be determined in the County where they lie and not elsewhere and no Presentment Indictment or Order made by Virtue of this Act shall be removed by Certiorari out of the County XXIII The Justices of Peace of every County at their Quarter-Sessions after Easter yearly shall assess the Prices of all Land-Carriage of Goods to be brought into any place within their Jurifdictions by any common Waggoner or Carrier and shall certifie such Rates to the Mayors or other chief Officers of every Markeâ—-Town and Waggoners or Carriers taking more then what shall be so assessed shall forfeit for every such Offence 5 l. to be levied by Distress and sale of Goods by Warrant of Two Justices to the Use of the party grieved XXIV In Actions commenced against any persons authorized to put this Act in Execution the Defendants may plead the General Issue and give this Act and the special Matter in Evidence and if the Plaintiff be Non-suit or forbear prosecution or discontinue or a Verdict pass against him the Defendant shall recover his double Costs XXV Stat. 4 5 W. M. cap. 9. The Toll mentioned in the Act made in the 15th year of the Reign of K. Charles II. Entituled An Act for Repairing the High-ways in the Counties of Hertford Cambridge and Huntington And in an Act made in the 16th and 17th years of the said late King for Continuance of the said Act to be taken at Wades Mill in Hertford-shire shall be revived and taken again in the manner by the said Acts mention'd for Fifteen years the Moneys thereby arising to be employed according to the Tenor of the said Acts. XXVI Provided that if the said High ways before the end of Fifteen years be in sufficient Repair and an Adjudication be made thereof at the Assize or General Quarter-Sessions of the County as is provided by the said Statute of 16 and 17 Car. II. the said Toll shall from thenceforth cease XXVII The several Officers and Persons impowered by the said former Acts so far as relates to the County of Hertford shall have the like Powers by Virtue of this Act and all Clauses in the said Acts concerning the Collecting Paying Ingaging or Accounting for the said Toll shall by Virtue of this Act be renewed and put in Execution as if here again repeated High-way-men I. Stat. 4 5 W. M. cap. 8. Every Person who shall apprehend one or more High-way-men and prosecute them till they be convicted shall have from the Sheriff of the County where such Conviction shall be without paying any Fee 40 l. within a Month after such Conviction and Demand thereof made by Certificate under the Judges Hand before whom such Conviction shall be and if any Dispute arise between the persons apprehending such Felons touching their Right to the said Reward the Judges certifying shall in their Certificate direct the Reward to be paid amongst them in such Proportion as they shall think reasonable And if any such Sheriff shall die or be removed before the end of the Month the Reward being unpaid the succeeding Sheriff shall pay it within a Month after Demand and Certificate as aforesaid The Sheriff in case of Default of payment shall forfeit double the Sum he ought to pay to the Persons to whom the Reward is due to be recovered by Action of Debt Bill Plaint or Information c. with treble Costs of Suit II. If any person shall happen to be killed by such High-way-man endeavouring to apprehend him his Executors or Administrators upon Certificate under Hand and Seal of a Judge of Assize for the County or of two next Justices of Peace shall receive the said Sum of 40 l. and in Failure of payment shall recover double the Sum with treble Costs of Suit as aforesaid III. The Sheriffs to be Allowed the said Sums of 40 l. upon their Accounts without Fee or Reward IV. If upon the Account of any Sheriff there shall not be sufficient in his Hands to Reimburse him the same shall be Paid by the Commissioners of the Treasury out of the Revenue of the Crown upon Certificate from the Clerk of the Pipe V. Persons Apprehending or Convicting such Robbers as a farther Reward shall have their Horses Furniture Arms Money and other Goods taken with them Provided that this Clause shall not take away the Right of any Persons from whom the same were before Feloniously taken VI. If any Persons out of Prison shall Commit any Robbery and shall afterwards discover Two or more Robbers who have or shall Commit any Robbery so as Two or more of them shall be Convicted such discoverer is hereby â—ntituled to Their Majesties Pardon which shall likewise be a good bar to any Appeal Informations I. Stat. 4 5 W. M. cap. 18. The Clerk of the Crown of the King's-Bench shall not without express Order in open Court Receive or File any Information for Trespasses Batteries and other Misdemeanours or issue any Process thereupon before he shall have taken or shall have delivered to him a Recognizance from the Informer with the Place of his Abode Title or Profession to be Entred to the Person Prosecuted in 20 l. Penalty to Prosecute with Effect and abide by such Order as the Court shall direct which Recognizance the Clerk of the Crown or a Justice of Peace of the Place where the Cause of any such Information shall arise may take and the Clerk of the Crown shall Enter the same upon Record and File a Memorandum thereof in some publick Place in his Office that all persons may resort thereunto without Fee And if the persons against whom such Informations shall be exhibited appear and plead to Issue and that the Prosecutor shall not at his own Charge within a year after Issue joyned procure a Tryal or if upon such Tryal a Verdict pass for the Defendant or the Informer procure a noli prosequi to be Entred the Court shall award the
this Act in execution may plead the General Issue c. and if the Plaintiffs discontinue or delay prosecution or become non-suit or a Verdict or Judgment pass against them the Defendants shall recover their treble Costs XV. After the first day of September 1690. none of the Commodities hereby prohibited shall be imported from Guernesey Jersey Alderney Sark or Man into England Ireland Wales or Berwick under the Penalties and Forfeitures contain'd in this Act. XVI None shall sell at or demand a greater price for any French Wines or so reputed or other Wines mixt with French Wines after the 10th day of September 1689. to the 10th day of September 1690. than 12 d. by the Quart and after the 10th of September 1690. 6 d. by the Quart and no more on pain to forfeit for every Quart 5 l. for the first Offence to the Informer and 10 l. for the second and every other Offence to be recovered by Action of Debt Bill Plaint or Information c. XVII After the 10th of Sept. 1689. no Retailer of Wines shall utter them other than in Measures made of Pewter and sealed according to the Statute on pain to forfeit 5 l. for every such Offence to the Informer to be recovered as aforesaid XVIII If any Merchant Vintner Wine-cooper or other Persons selling Wines by whole-sale or retail shall corrupt or adulterate any Wine or shall utter Wine corrupted or adulterated they shall forfeit 300 l. for every such Offence the one moiety to their Majesties and the other to him that will sue for the same by Action of Debt Bill Plaint or Information c. and shall suffer three months Imprisonment XIX Stat. 2 W. M. Sess 2. cap. 14. If any Officer of the Customs or Prizes shall knowingly suffer any Goods or Manufactures imported as Prizes or otherwise contrary to an Act made in the first year of their Majesties Reign Entituled An Act for prohibiting all Trade and commerce with France to be admitted to an Entry or to be embezil'd and not stav'd spilt burnt or destroy'd as the said Act directs he shall forfeit 500 l. one moiety to their Majesties the other to the Informer and shall be uncapable of executing any Office in their Majesties Revenue XX. If any Persons after the first of February 1690. shall utter by retail by Glass-Bottles or by any other Retail-measure not made of Pewter and seal'd according to Law any Wines or other Liquor or shall sell the same for a greater price than by the said Act is appointed and shall be convicted by confession or the Oath of two Witnesses before a Justice of Peace being prosecuted within thirty days after the Offence committed they shall forfeit 5 s. for every such Offence which if not paid upon demand shall be levied by distress and tale of Goods by such Justices Warrant to the Constable Headborough c. the Mony so levied to be given to the Informer and for want of a distress the Offender to be committed to the common Gaol till payment of the penalty and all necessary Costs to be taxed by the Justice or Justices before whom the Conviction was XXI Offenders punished by virtue of this Act shall not incur the Penalty of any former Law for the same Offence and no Writs of Certiorari shall supersede or remove any Proceedings by virtue of this Act. XXII Persons resisting abusing beating or wounding an Officer Informer or other Person impowred hereby or such as shall act in their Aid shall by the next Justice of Peace or other Magistrate be committed to prison till the next Quarter-Sessions where they shall be punished by Fine not exceeding 5 l. and the Offender to remain in prison till he be discharged of his Fine and Imprisonment by Order of the Justices or any two of them XXIII Stat. 4 5 W. M. cap. 17. A joint Stock of 40000 l. at least shall be raised by Subscriptions by Sir W.S. H.B. R.H. J.S. G.B. F.G. E.P. E.H. J.J. E.B. B.S. M.A. R.M. J.G. J.K. T.S. W.B. R.B. R.H. J.B. J.B. P.P. T.P. C.M. S.H. S.N. B.S. N.C. T.C. P.G. J.B. T.K. H.S. R.M. J.P. R.C. P.G. A.B. A.M. J.O. J.P. and T.G. on or before the first day of May next and shall be paid to the use of the Company established by this Act. XXIV And be it enacted That the said Sir W.S. H.B. and the rest of the Persons afore-named and all and every other Person and Persons subjects born or naturalized or endenizend who shall have any share in the said Joint-Stock shall be incorporated by the Name of the Company of Merchants of London trading to Greenland and shall have a common Seal and Ability to purchase Lands and Tenements in Succession so as the same exceed nor the yearly value of 100 l. and to do and execute all Matters and Things which any other Body Corporate may lawfully do or execute XXV The said Company during the continuance of the said Joynt-Stock shall freely use the Trade and Merchandize of catching Whales into and from Green land and the Green-land Seas and in all Seas and Places whatsoever except in the Seas belonging to their Majesties Colonies and Plantations in America without interruption or disturbance any Law Statute or other thing to the contrary notwithstanding XXVI A Governor Deputy-Governor and sixteen Committees shall be elected as followeth who shall have the management and direction of the said Trade XXVII A Book for Subscriptions shall be provided within ten days after the passing of this Act by the first five of the said Persons or any three of them in which shall be subscribed on or before the first day of May next by the Persons above-named or the Survivors of them the said Joint-Stock which shall not be less then 40000 l. no Subscriber to subscribe less than 500 l. nor more than 2000 l. XXVIII All Persons subscribing shall on or before the said first day of May pay down to such as the Persons before-named or the major-part of them shall appoint one fourth part of the Sums they subscribe and the remainder at such times and in such manner as shall be appointed by the Governor or Deputy-Governor and Court of Committees so as the whole Sum subscribed be paid within four years after the said first day of May. XXIX Defaulters in payment shall after such default have no other advantage by such Subscription than in proportion to such Sums as they shall have actually paid and farther shall forfeit to the use of the Adventurers in the said Joint-Stock 10 l. for every hundred pounds of such Sum as they shall omit to pay in to be deducted out of the Mony by them paid in XXX Before the 25th day of May next any thirteen of the said Persons before-named shall call a Court of all the Subscribers and others who shall then have any share in the said Joint-Stock who shall meet and chuse one fit Person having subscribed 1000 l. or upwards and paid in one
this Act any Chamber-rent Fee or Reward for any thing relating to his Discharge above the Sum of 6 s. 6 d. in the whole upon pain of forfeiting the value of the Debt and upon pain of being proceeded against as an Extortioner any Law Act of Parliament or Usage to the contrary notwithstanding IV. The Justice of Peace his Clerks Fee And that no Justice of Peace his Clerk or Servant shall take of any Prisoner for signing his Warrant and Summons any Fee or Reward whatsoever nor any Clerk of the Papers or other Officer that shall make out any Copies of Causes for the said Prisoner shall take for the same above 4 d. upon pain to be proceeded against as Extortioners aforesaid V. No Debt contracted since Nov. 28. 1690. shall hereby be discharged Provided that no Debtor shall by virtue of this or the aforesaid Act be discharged of any Debt contracted by such Debtor since the 28th day of November which was in the Year 1690. Ships I. Builders of 3 Deck Ships within 10 years from first M. 1694. their allowance for Customs STat. 5 6 W. M. Sess 5. cap. 18. Every Person that shall within ten years from and after the first of May 1694. build or cause to be built within any of their Majesties Dominions any Ships or Vessels of three Decks reckoning the Orlop for one with a Fore-castle Quarter-deck Round-house and six Foot between each Deck from Plank to Plank their Hawrses to be between Decks the said Ships to be of no less than 450 Tun and to have no less than ten Ports of a side between Decks mounted with 32 Pieces of Ordnance close of which 18 to be between Decks the said Guns upon the lower Deck to be Demy-Culverine of 3000 weight at least upon the Upper-deck Fore-castle and Steerage to be also Demy-Culverine of 2200 weight at least and those in the Cuddy to be 600 weight at least and other Ammunition proportionably shall for the first three Voyages which the said Ship or Ships shall make from their Majesties Dominions to any Foreign Parts receive to their own use and benefit one tenth part of the Customs commonly call'd or known by the name of the Subsidy of Tunnage and Poundage that shall be paid to their Majesties for all such Goods and Merchandizes as shall be exported and imported on the said Ship or Ships to and from this Kingdom and the Commissioners and Officers of their Majesties Customs are hereby impowered to pay the same to the respective Owners accordingly II. The penalty if altered And if at any time after the end of the said three first Voyages any of the said Ships or Vessels so to be built as aforesaid shall be altered or put into another form of Building whereby they shall become or be made less defensible than they were at first building that then every such Ship or Vessel with all the Guns Tackle Ammunition and Apparel thereof shall be forfeited and lost I. Stat. 5 6 W. M. Sess 5. cap. 19. Offences done since 24 June 1694. may be tried in the Kings Bench or by Justices of Oyer and Terminer All Offences contrary to one Act made in the 13th year of King Charles II. Entituled An Act for the establishing Articles and Orders for the regulating and better Government of his Majesties Navies Ships of War and Forces by Sea which shall be committed after the 24th of June 1694. may be tried and determined in the Kings Bench at Westminster or before Justices of Oyer and Terminer appointed by their Majesties which said Courts are hereby impowered to hear and determine the same according to the Common Law and to inflict such Penalties as are appointed by the said Act. II. Offences done out of the Realm c. Person tried by a Court Martial not to be tried again How long to continue Where any of the said Offences shall be committed out of this Realm the same may be alledged and laid in any County within this Realm III. Provided that no Person who shall be tried in a Court-Martial shall for the same Offence be again tried by virtue of this Act nor shall any Person tried by virtue of this Act be tried again by a Court-Martial IV. Provided also that this Act shall continue in force for three years and from thence to the end of the next Session of Parliament Souldiers I. Stat. 5 6 W. M. Sess 5. cap. 9. The Act made in the last Session of this Parliament Entituled An Act for punishing Officers and Souldiers who shall mutiny and desert their Majesties Service and for punishing false Musters and for payment of Quarters shall continue and be in force until the first of March 1694. and no longer II. Who shall be accounted a listed Souldier No Person that shall be listed for the Land-Service after the first of March 1693. shall be esteemed a listed Souldier or be subject to any of the Pains and Penalties of this Act or any other Penalty for his Behaviour as a Souldier that shall not have been brought before a Justice of Peace not being an Officer in the Army or Chief Magistrate of some City or Town-Corporate or High Constable or Pety Constable in the Hundred or Division where the Person shall be listed and before such Justice Magistrate or High Constable or Pety Constable declare his free consent to be listed or mustred as a Souldier before he be listed or mustred or inserted in any Muster-Roll of a Regiment Troop or Company as aforesaid And every Military Officer that shall offend herein shall incur the like Penalty and Forfeiture as is by the said continued Act to be inflicted upon any Officer for making a false and untrue Muster Sureties I. St. 10 E. 3. for finding Sureties for Good Behavior repealed Stat. 5 6 W. M. Sess 5. cap. 7. The Statute the 10th year of King Edw. III. for finding Sureties for the Good abearing by him or her that hath a Pardon of Felony is hereby made void and repealed II. Provided At the Justices discretion that if any Charter of Pardon be pleaded by any Person for any Felony the Justices before whom such Pardon shall be pleaded may at their discretion remand or commit such Person to Prison there to remain until he or she shall enter into a Recognizance with two sufficient Sureties for his or her being of the Good Behaviour for any time not exceeding seven years III. Provided Feme-Covert or Infant to find Sureties if any such Charter of Pardon be pleaded by a Feme-Covert or Infant such Feme-Covert or Infant may find two sufficient Sureties who shall enter into a Recognizance for his or her being of the Good Behaviour as aforesaid Taxes Aid of 4 s. in the Pound I. STat. 5 W. M. Sess 5. cap. 1. 4 s. in the Pound to be paid for all personal Estates excepting desperate Debts and Houshold-stuff All and
Exchequer and their Sureties and all Recognizances and Conditions for the payment of Mony XXV This Act shall not discharge any Recognizance c. not yet forfeited nor any forfeited Recognizanc c. whereof the Farmers of the Excise or any part of the Revenue ought to receive benefit nor any Debt due by Recognizance c. to any Persons endebted to their Majesties which hath been seiz'd in Aid nor any Debt whereupon any enstalment or seizure hath been made upon which any thing is or since the 25th of March hath been answered and paid nor to discharge any Forfeitures or Sums of Mony due to their Majesties by any Statute which Forfeitures c. since the said 25th of March are converted into the nature of a Debt or have been install'd or any seizure made for them upon which any thing has been paid since the said 25th of March. XXVI But all Recognizances c. forfeited since the said 25th of March for non-payment in any Court or other place or not keeping the Peace or not being of the Good Behaviour are discharged except Recognizances granted to or in trust for the Lord Almoner XXVII And except all Issues Fines and Amerciaments lost or assessed since the said 25th day of March being totted or received by any Officer before the last day of this Session of Parliament and all Issues c. lost or assess'd since the said 25th day of March affeered taxed estreated or entred severally touching any one or more Persons joyntly or severally above 6 l. and except Issues Fines c. set in any Court of Record at Westminster within a year before the first day of this Parliament XXVIII But all other Fines as well pro lic concord as others set or entred before that time and Issues and Amerciaments as well real as others set or entred before the time aforesaid and which do not exceed 6 l. whether estreated or not estreated whether turn'd into Debt or not and not being totted or received by any Officer before the first day of this Parliament shall be discharged yet nevertheless the estreats of such Fines c. already estreated out of the Exchequer and remaining in the Sheriffs Hands shall upon the return of such Estreats be charged and delivered by Scrowes into the Pipe-Office as hath been accustomed and yet Sheriffs and other Accountants upon Petition to have allowance for such Fines c. as are pardoned shall have their Petition allowed without Fee XXIX This Act shall not pardon any who by Name are excepted out of the Act of Oblivion made 12 Car. 2. nor to those two Persons who appeared in Vizors upon the Scaffold when King Charles I. was murther'd XXX Nor shall this Act restore any Ability to exercise Offices or to serve in Parliament c. to persons disabled by any other Laws XXXI Nor shall this Act discharge any person who if he after the first day of September 1660. has exercised any Office is by the said Act of 12 Car. 2. to stand as if excepted out of the said Act by Name XXXII And except all persons attainted by Act of Parliament or otherwise for any Rebellion levying of War or any Conspiracy thereof in any of their Majesties Dominions and all persons attainted or outlawed for any other Treason Petit Treason Murder wilful Poysoning or Burglary XXXIII And except all persons who by any former Act are by Name made liable to any penalties whatsoever XXXIV And except persons who after conviction or attainder for any Felony have desired to be transported XXXV And except persons who being excepted out of the said general Act of 12 Car. 2. have had any pains or penalties imposed on them by any subsequent Act. XXXVI And except all penalties of 500 l. which shall by any Act of this Session be inflicted for holding Offices contrary to an Act of Parliament made in the 25th of King Charles II. Entituled An Act for preventing Dangers which may happen from Popish Recusants XXXVII And except William Marquiss of Powis Theophilus Earl of Huntington Robert Earl of Sunderland John Earl of Melfort Roger Earl of Castlemain the Lord Thomas Howard Nathaniel Lord Bishop of Durham Thomas Lord Bishop of St. Davids Henry Lord Dover William Molineux Sir Edward Hales Sir Edward Herbert Sir Francis Wythens Sir Richard Holloway Sir Edward Lutwich Sir Richard Heath Sir Thomas Jenner Sir Roger l'Estrange Sir Nicholas Butler Edward Petre Thomas Tindesley Townly Rowland Tempest Edward Morgan Obadiah Walker Robert Brent Richard Graham Philip Burton Robert Lundy Matthew Crone and George Lord Jefferies deceased XXXVIII And also except all Offences committed by Jesuits and Romish Priests contrary to the Statute made in the 27th year of Queen Elizabeth Entituled An Act against Jesuits Seminary Priests and other disobedient Persons and except all Convictions of Popish Recusants XXXIX No Process of Outlawry at the Suit of any person Plaintiff shall by virtue of this Act be stay'd unless the Defendant appear and put in Bail where the Law requires it and take out a Seirs Fac Nor shall this Pardon discharge any Outlawry after Judgment till satisfaction or agreement with the party XL. Persons hereby pardoned may plead the Ceneral Issue and give this Act in Evidence XLI This Act shall be of as good force to pardon and discharge the Premisses against such as claim the same by any Grant from the Crown as against their Majesties themselves XLII Nothing in this Act shall discharge any person from abetting or procuring the raising War or Rebellion against their Majesties or adhering to their Enemies since the 13th day of February 1688. unless such person shall before the 20th day of July next or sooner if required take this Oath in such Court as shall have power to administer the same viz. I A. B. do sincerely promise and swear That I will be faithful and bear true Allegiance to their Majesties King William and Queen Mary So help me God Parliament I. Stat. 1 W. M. Sess 1. cap. 1. The Lords Spiritual and Temporal and Commons conven'd at Westminster the 22th day of January 1688. and there sitting on the 13th day of February following are the two Houses of Parliament to all intents and purposes notwithstanding the want of any Writs of Summons or other defect of Form and this Act and all other Acts to which the Royal Assent shall be given before the next Prorogation shall be adjudged to commence upon the said 13th day of February II. The Act made in the 30th year of King Charles II. Entituled An Act for the more effectual preserving the Kings Person and Government by disabling of Papists from sitting in either House of Parliament and all other Acts of Parliament as to so much of them as concerns the taking the Oaths of Allegiance and Supremacy or either of them by any Member of either House of Parliament with relation to their sitting and voting there are hereby repealed III. And the taking the Oaths herein after
AN EXACT Abridgment Of all the STATUTES OF King WILLIAM AND Queen MARY Now in Force and Vse By J. Washington Esq LONDON Printed by the Assigns of the Kings Printers And by the Assigns of R. Atkins and E. Atkins Esquires And are to be sold by M. Gilliflower S. Keble D. Brown W. Rogers T. Goodwin A. Churchill and J. Walthoe 1694. THE TITLES Of all the STATUTES Contained in this ABRIDGMENT Now in Force and Vse 1. AN Act for removing and preventing all Questions and Disputes concerning the assembling and sitting of this present Parliament 2. An Act for reviving of Actions and Process lately depending in the Courts at Westminster and discontinued by the not holding of Hillary-Term and for supplying other Defects relating to Proceedings at Law 3. An Act for establishing the Coronation Oath 4. An Act for the abrogating of the Oaths of Supremacy and Allegiance and appointing other Oaths 5. An Act for the removing Papists and reputed Papists from the Cities of London and Westminster and ten Miles distance from the same 6. An Act for the taking away the Revenue arising by Hearth-Mony 7. An Act for the explaining and making effectual a Statute made in the first Year of King James II. concerning the Haven and Piers of Great Yarmouth 8. An Act for the encouraging the Exportation of Corn. 9. An Act for preventing Doubts and Questions concerning the collecting the Publick Revenue 10. An Act for the better securing the Government by disarming Papists and reputed Papists 11. An Act That the Simoniacal Promotion of one Person may not projudice another 12. An Act for rectifying a Mistake in a certain Act of this present Parliament For the amoving Papists from the Cities of London and Westminster 13. An Act for exempting their Majesties Protestant Subjects dissenting from the Church of England from the Penalties of certain Laws 14. An Act for enabling Lords Commissioners for the Great Seal to execute the Office of Lord Chancellor or Lord Keeper 15. An Act for the Exportation of Beer Ale Syder and Mum. 16. An Act for reviving two former Acts for exporting of Leather 17. An Act to regulate the Administration of the Oaths required to be taken by Commission or Warrant Officers employed in their Majesties Service by Land by virtue of an Act made this present Session of Parliament Entituled An Act for the abrogating of the Oaths of Supremacy and Allegiance and appointing other Oaths 18. An Act to vest in the two Universities the Presentations of Benefices belonging to Papists 19. An Act for taking away the Court holden before the President and Council of the Marches of Wales 20. An Act for appropriating certain Duties for paying the States General of the United Provinces their Charges for his Majesties Expedition into this Kingdom and for other Uses 21. An Act for Relief of the Protestant Irish Clergy 22. An Act to repeal the Statute made in the fifth Year of King Henry IV. against the multiplying of Gold and Silver 23. An Act for the better preventing the Exportation of Wooll and encouraging the Woollen Manufactures of this Kingdom 24. An Act for explaining part of an Act made in the first Year of King James I. concerning Tanned Leather 25. An Act for prohibiting all Trade and Commerce with France 26. An Act declaring the Rights and Liberties of the Subject and settling the Succession of the Crown 27. An Act for preventing all Doubts and Questions concerning the collecting the Publick Revenue 28. An Act for the charging and collecting the Duties upon Coffee Tea and Chocolate at the Custom-house 29. An Act for preventing venatious Suits against such as acted in order to the Bringing in their Majesties or for their Service 30. An Act for the better Security and Relief of their Majesties Protestant Subjects of Ireland 31. An Act for Recognizing King William and Queen Mary and for avoiding all Questions touching the Acts made in the Parliament assembled at Westminster the thirteenth day of February 1688. 32. An Act for granting to their Majesties for their Lives and the Life of the Survivor of Them certain Impositions upon Beer Ale and other Liquors 33. An Act for granting to their Majesties a Subsidy of Tunnage and Poundage and other Sums of Mony payable upon Merchandizes exported and imported 34. An Act for enabling the Sale of Goods distrained for Rent in case the Rent be not paid in a reasonable time 35. An Act for the Exercise of the Government by Her Majesty during his Majesty's Absence 36. An Act to declare the Right and Freedom of Election of Members to serve in Parliament for the Cinque Ports 37. An Act for reversing the Judgment in a Quo Warranto against the City of London and for restoring the City of London to its ancient Rights and Priviledges 38. An Act for the discouraging the Importation of Thrown-Silk 39. An Act for the King and Queens most Gracious General and Free Pardon 40. An Act concerning the Commissioners of the Admiralty 41. An Act for granting to their Majesties certain Impositions upon all East-India Goods and Manufactures and upon all Wrought Silks and several other Goods and Merchandize to be imported after the 25th day of December 1690. 42. An Act for the continuance of several former Acts therein mentioned for the laying several Duties upon Wines Vinegar and Tobacco 43. An Act for reviving a former Act for regulating the Measures and Prices of Coals 44. An Act for paving and cleansing the Streets in the Cities of London and Westminster and Suburbs and Liberties thereof and Out-Parishes in the County of Middlesex and in the Borough of Southwark and other Places within the Weekly Bills of Mortality in the County of Surry and for regulating the Markets therein mentioned 45. An Act for the encouraging the Distilling of Brandy and Spirits from Corn and for laying several Duties on Low-Wines or Spirits of the first Extraction 46. An Act for granting to their Majesties several additional Duties of excise upon Beer Ale and other Liquors for four Years from the time that an Act for doubling the Duty of Excise upon Beer Ale and other Liquors during the space of one Year doth expire 47. An Act for preventing vexatious Suits against such as acted for their Majesties Service in Defence of the Kingdom 48. An Act for the more effectual putting in Execution an Act Entituled An Act for prohibiting all Trade and Commerce with France 49. An Act for Relief of poor Prisoners for Debt or Damages 50. An Act for abrogating the Oath of Supremacy in Ireland and appointing other Oaths 51. An Act for the better ascertaining the Tithes of Hemp and Flax. 52. An Act for the Encouragement of the Breeding and Feeding of Cattle 53. An Act to take away Clergy from some Offenders and to bring others to punishment 54. An Act for the more effectual discovery and Punishment of Deer-stealers 55. An Act for the better explanation and supplying the Defects of the former Laws for the
said Commissioners shall from time to time if required and at the end of their Proceedings by virtue of this Act give an Account thereof in writing under Five or more of their Hands and Seals to the King and Queen and both Houses of Parliament at their next Meeting VII All Accountants shall make their Accounts in the Exchequer as formerly this Act notwithstanding VIII The Powers hereby Granted shall endure for one Year from the 25th day of January 1690. and no longer IX The Lords Commissioners of the Treasury shall pay 500 l. to each Commissioner for his Care and Pains herein X. The said Commissioners or any Five or more of them shall take an Account what Sums of Money were ordered and paid during the late King James his Reign for Repairing the Fleet and how the same hath been disposed of XI This Act shall give no Authority to the said Commissioners to demand an Account of Money paid to Their Majesties Privy Purse or expended for secret Service XII Nothing in this Act shall hinder the said Commissioners from requiring an Account upon Oath of Pensions Salaries and Sums of Moneys paid or payable to Members of Parliament XIII Stat. 4 5 W. M. c. 11. Sir Thomas Clarges Kt. Sir Peter Colliton Bar. Sir Samuel Barnardiston Bar. Sir Benjamin Newland Kt. Sir Matthew Andrews Kt. Paul Foley Esq and Robert Harley Esq or any four or more of them are hereby constituted Commissioners for taking an Account of the Publick Revenue of the Crown and all other Accounts which by an Act made in the Second Year of Their Majesties Reign Entituled An Act for Appointing and Enabling Commissioners to Examine Take and State the Publick Accounts of the Kingdom were to be taken by Commissioners thereby constituted and the said Act is hereby revived and shall be in force from the 24th of April next to the 25th of April 1694. and be executed by the Commissioners herein named or any four or more of them And the Lords Commissioners of the Treasury shall issue and pay the like Allowances for Clerks and other Charges as the said Act directs and the like quarterly Payments to the Commissioners hereby constituted as by the said Act is appointed to the Commissioners therein named and the Commissioners hereby constituted shall take Accounts of all Their Majesties Revenue and other publick Moneys due and payable to them between the 5th day of November 1688. and the 25th day of April 1694 not yet accounted for by virtue of the said recited Act or the last Clause touching Publick Accounts in one Act in the Third Year of Their Majesties Reign Entituled An Act for Raising Money by a Poll c. Admiralty I. Sat. 2 W. M. Sess 2. c. 2. All and singular Authorities Jurisdictions and Powers which by Act of Parliament or otherwise are vested in the Lord High Admiral of England for the time being have always appertained to and shall be used and executed by the Commissioners of the Admiralty as if they were Lord High Admiral II. Every Officer present upon Tryals of Offenders by Courts Martial to be held by virtue of any Commission granted by the Lord High Admiral or Commissioners of the Admiralty shall before any proceeding to Tryal take this Oath to be administred by the Judge Advocate or his Deputy viz. You shall well and truly try and determine the matter now before you between our Sovereign Lord and Lady the King and Queens Majesties and the Prisoner to be tryed So help you God Bails I. Stat. 4 5 W. M. c. 4. The Judges of the Kings Bench or any two of them whereof the Chief Justice to be one for the Court of Kings Bench and the Judges of the Common-Pleas or any two of them whereof the Chief Justice to be one for the Court of Common-Pleas and the Barons of the Colf of the Exchequer or any two of them whereof the Chief Baron to be one for the Court of Exchequer may by Commissions under the Seals of the said respective Courts from time to time Impower such Persons other then common Attorneys and Solicitors as they shall think fit in all and every the Counties of England and Wales and Town of Berwick to take such Recognizances of Bails as any Persons shall be willing to make before them in any Action or Suit depending or to be depending in the said Courts in Manner and Form as the Justices and Barons of the said Courts have used to take the same Which Recognizances shall be transmitted to some one of the said Justices or Barons respectively who upon Affidavit made of the due taking thereof shall receive the same upon payment of the usual Fees Which Recognizance shall be of like effect as if it were taken de bene esse before any of the said Justices or Barons For taking which Recognizances the Persons impowered shall receive Two Shillings and no more II. The Justices and Barons respectively shall make such Rules for the justifying such Bails as to them shall seem meet so as the Cognizors be not compell'd to appear in person in any of the said Courts unless they live in London or Westminster or within ten Miles thereof to justifie themselves but the same is hereby directed to be determined by Affidavits taken before the Commissioners III. Any Judge of Assize may take such Recognizances which shall be transmitted and received as aforesaid without Oath upon payment of the usual Fees IV. Persons representing or personating others before any impowered by this Act to take Bails shall be adjudged Felons Beer c. I. Stat. Ann. 1. W. M. Sess 1. cap. 22. From and after the twenty fourth of June 1689. any Person may ship off within any of the usual and allowed Ports by Law and at the common Keys and within the usual hours of Excise to be Exported into Foreign Parts in the presence of a sworn Officer to be appointed by the Farmers c. of Excise within the limits where the same shall be shipp'd any strong Ale strong Beer Cyder or Mum paying Custom for the same after the Rate of 1 Shilling per Tun and no other Duty Such Officer to certifie the quantity so shipp'd off to the Commissioners and Officers of Excise where the Entry thereof shall be made who are hereby required to make Allowance or repay the Excise of the Beer Ale Cyder or Mum so Exported to the Brewer or Maker thereof within one Month after such Exportation deducting Three pence per Tun for the Charges of their Officers II. If any Merchant Master of Vessel or other Person shall cause or suffer any Liquors so shipped to be laid on Land or put into any other Vessel within England Wales or the Town of Berwick he shall forfeit the same and 50 l. more for every Cask so unduly landed or put on Board any Vessel the one Moiety to the King and Queen the other to the Informer And Their Majesties Commissioners and Officers of the
his room and in case of neglect or refusal to make such Appointment before the next General Quarter-Sessions after such refusal the Justices of Peace at their General Quarter-Sessions may appoint one VI. Provided always that he shall be liable to all the Penalties Conditions c. hereby mentioned and expressed and may be discharged by the said Justices as aforesaid VII No Custos Rotulorum or other person to whom it doth or shall belong to nominate a Clerk of the Peace shall sâ—ll the said Place directly or indirectly upon the Penalty that every Custos Rotulorum or other person so selling and every Clerk of the Peace so buying shall be disabled to hold their Places and forfeit double the Value of what shall be so given or taken to be recovered by him or them that will sue for the same to their own use by any Action of Debt Suit Bill Plaint or Information in any of Their Majesties Courts at Westminster VIII Every Clerk of the Peace before he enters upon his Office shall in open Sessions take this Oath viz. I A. B. do swear That I have not nor will pay any Sum or Sums of Money or other Reward whatsoever nor have given any Bond or other Assurance to pay any Money Fee or Profit directly or indirectly to any person or persons whomsoever for such Nomination or Appointment So help me God IX Nothing in this Act shall relate to the Clerk of the Peace for the Dutchy and County Palatine of Lancaster X. This Act to commence from the 1st day of May 1689. Churches I. Sat. 4 5 W. M. c. 12. Where any Churches have been or shall be united by virtue of an Act made in the 17th year of the Reign of the late K. Charles the Second and one of them at the time of such Union was or hereafter shall be demolished in such case whenever the Church to which the Union was or shall be made shall be out of Repair or want decent Ornaments the Parishioners of the Parish whose Church shall be down or demolished shall pay towards the Charge of such Repairs and Ornaments in proportion as the Archbishop or Bishop that shall make such Union shall direct and for want of such Direction shall bear one third part of the Charge Clergy I. Stat. 3 4 W. M c. 9. Such as shall rob any person or feloniously take away Goods being in a Dwelling-house the Owner or other person being there and put in fear or shall rob any Dwelling house in the day time any Person being therein or shall be accessary to any of the said Offences or to break any Dwelling-house Shop or Warehouse thereunto belonging or therewith used in the day time and feloniously take away Money or Goods to the value of 5 s. though no person be therein or shall counsel hire or command any person to commit any Burglary being thereof attainted or being indicted thereof shall stand mute or will not directly answer to the Indictment or shall peremptorily challenge above 20 Jurors shall not have the Benefit of their Clergy II. Persons indicted of any offence for which by virtue of any former Law they are excluded from Clergy if convicted by Verdict or Confession shall not be admitted to the Benefit thereof if they stand mute or will not answer directly to the Felony or shall challenge peremptorily above 20. III. Persons indicted for stealing any Goods in any County and thereof convicted or standing mute or not answering directly to the Indictment or challenging peremptorily above 20 shall be excluded from the Benefit of their Clergy if it appear upon Evidence that the said Goods were taken in any other County in such manner as if the said persons had been convicted by a Jury there they should have lost the Benefit of their Clergy IV. Persons buying or receiving stolen Goods knowing them to be stolen shall be deemed Accessaries to the Felony after the Fact V. If any persons shall steal any Chattels c. which by Contract or Agreement they are to use or shall be let to them in Lodgings such stealing shall be adjudged Larceny and Felony VI. If a Woman be convicted of an Offence for which a man might have the Benefit of his Clergy upon her Prayer to have the Benefit of this Statute Judgment of Death shall not be given against her but she shall suffer the same punishment that a man should suffer viz. shall be burnt in the Hand and farther be kept in Prison not exceeding a year VII A Transcript certified by the Clerk of the Crown of the Peace or of the Assizes containing the Tenor of the Indictment and of the persons having had the Benefit of his Clergy or of this Act to the Judges or Justices in any other County shall be a sufficient proof that such persons hath had the Benefit of his Clergy or of this Act. Coals I. Stat. 2 W. M. Sess 2. cap. 7. An Act made in the 16th and 17th years of the Reign of the late K. Charles II. for Regulating the Measures and Prices of Coals is hereby revived and continued from the 1st day of December 1690. for the space of 7 years and from thence to the end of the next Session of Parliament II. Owners of Vessels English built and belonging to the Subjects of England whereof the Master is an Englishman Trading with Coals to and from Newcastle or the Parts adjacent or to Wales to London or any part of England may navigate their Vessels with as many Foreign Seamen as the Master or Owners shall think fit during the present War any thing in an Act made in the 12th year of K. Charles II. Entituled An Act for Encouraging and Encreasing Shipping and Navigation to the contrary notwithstanding The Act of K. Charles the Second hereby Revived is as followeth viz. Stat. 16 17 Car. 2. From and after the 6th of March 1664. all Sea coal brought into the River of Thames and sold shall be sold by the Chaldron containing 36 Bushels heaped up and according to the Bushel sealed for that purpose at Guildhall and all other Coals commonly sold by Weight shall be sold after the proportion of 112 pounds to the Hundred of Avoir du pois on pain to forseit the Coals otherwise sold or exposed to sale and the double value thereof to be recovered by any who will sue for the same in any Court of Record or by Complaint to the Lord Mayor and Justices of Peace within London or any two of them or to the Justices of Peace of the several Counties and Places where such Coals shall be exposed to sale who are hereby empowered to convict the Offenders and to levy the Forfeitures by Warrant one half to the Prosecutor and the other half to the Use of the Poor or Repairing the Highways The Lord Mayor and Court of Aldermen and the Justices of Peace of the several Counties c. or any Three of them whereof one to be of
the Quorum shall set prices of Coals to be sold by Retail And if any Ingrosser or Retailer of Coals refuse to sell as aforesaid the Lord Mayor Aldermen and Justices of Peace respectively shall impower whom they think fit to enter into any place where such Coals are stored up and in case of refusal taking a Constable to force Entrance and to sell the said Coals at the prices set as aforesaid rendring the Money to the Owner Charges deducted This Act to continue for 3 years and to the end of the next Session of Parliament No person sued by virtue of this Act shall be sued upon any other for the same Offence and if any Action be prosecuted for any thing done by colour hereof the Defendant may plead the General Issue and give the Special Matter in Evidence and if the Verdict be found for him or the Plaintiff become Nonsuit he shall recover his Damages and double Costs No Person having any Interest in a Wharf used for Coals or Trading in Coals in his own or any others name or engrossing the same in order to sell them shall intermeddle in the setting the price of Coals Continuance I. Stat. 4. 5. W. M. cap. 24. Entituled An Act for Providing Carriages by Land and by Water for the use of His Majesties Navy and Ordnance shall be in force for Seven years from the 13th day of February 1692. and from thence to the end of the First Session of Parliament then next ensuing II. An Act Entitused An Act for encouraging of Coynage made in the 18th Year of King Charles 2. And another Act made in the 25th Year of the same King Entituled An Act for continuing a former Act concerning Coynage shall be in force from the 13th Day of February 1692 and to the end of the First Session of Parliament then next ensuing III. An Act made in the 2â—th and 23th Years of the Reign of the same King Entituled An Act for the better and more certain recovery of Fines and Forfeitures due to His Majesty shall be in force and is hereby made perpâ—tual IV. All Officers to whom it belongeth to make returns of Estreats into the Court of Exchequer shall upon the delivery in of all and every such Estreat and Estreats take this Oath viz. You shall Swear that these Estrates now by you delivered are trult and carefully made up and examined and that all Fines Issues Americaments Recognizances and Forfeitures which were Set Lost Imposed or Forfeited and in right and due course of Law ought to be estreated into the Court of Exchequer are to the best of your Knowledge and Understanding therein contained And that in the same Estreats are also contained and expressed all such Fines as have been paid into the Court from which the said Estreats are made without any wilful or fraudalent Discharge Omission Misnomer or Defect whatsoever So help you God Which Oath any of the Barons of the Exchequer shall Administer V. An Act made in the 22th and 23th Year of the same King Entituled An Act to prevent the Planting of Tobacco in England and for Regulating the Plantation Trade shall be in full force for Seven Years from the said 13th Day of February 1692. and from thence to the end of the next Session of Parliament VI. An Act made in the 19th Year of the same King Entituled An Act for Assigning Orders in the Exchequer shall be in force for Seven years from the said 13th Day of February 1692. and from thence to the end of the next Session of Parliament VII Whereas an Act made in the 22th and 23th years of the same King Entituled An Act to revice an Act Entituled An Act to prevent the disturbance of Seamen and others and to preserve the Stores belonging to His Majesties Navy Royal with some Alterations and Additions was by an Act made in the 1st Year of the Reign of the late K. James Enacted to be in force for Seven years and from thence to the end of the 1st Session of the next Parliament The said last mentioned Act shall be continued for Seven years from the said 13th of February 1692. and from thence to the end of the next Session of Parliament VIII An Act made in the 22d and 23d of the said K. C. 2. Entituled An Act to prevent Frauds in the buying and selling of Cattle in Smithfield and elsewhere together with a Proviso in an Act made the 1st year of the late K. James for the Reviving and Continuance thereof That the said Act should not extend to Salesmen or Factors employed by Farmers or Feeders shall be in force for Seven years from the 13th of February 1692. and from thence to the end of the next Session of Parliament IX An Act made in the 1st year of Their Majesties Reign Entituled An Act for the better preventing the Exportation of Wooll and encouraging the Woollen Manufacture of this Kingdom except such part thereof as relates to the free Exportation of the Woollen Manufacture shall be in force for Three years from the said 13th day of February 1692. and from thence to the end of the next Session of Parliament X Provided that no Wooll shall be Imported from Ireland into the Port of Exeter any thing in this or any former Act to the contrary notwithstanding XI An Act made the 13th and 14th years of the late King Charles 2. Entituled An Act for the better relief of the Poor of this Kingdom as to all Parts other then what relates to the Corporations thereby Constituted shall be in force for Seven years from the said 13th of February 1692. and from thence to the end of the next Session of Parliament XII An Act made in the 30th year of the late K. Charles 2. Entituled An Act to enable Creditors to recover their Debts of the Executors and Administrators of Executors in their own wrong shall be perpetual XIII And further Executors and Administrators of Executors or Administrators of Right who shall waste or convert to their own Use the Goods or Estate of his Testator or Intestate shall be chargeable as their Testator or Intestaâ—e should or might have been XIV If any Woman hath been or shall be Convicted of any Felony for which a Man might have the Benefit of Clergy and hath once had or shall have the Benefit of an Act made at the last Session of this present Parilament Eâ—â—â—ed Aâ— Act to take away Clergy from some Offenders and to being others to punishment and shall be again Convicted of any other Felony such Woman thall be totally excluded from having any other benefit of the said Act. XV. The said last mentioned Act to continue for Three years from the said 13th of February 1692. and from thence to the end of the next Session of Parliament XVI An Act made in the 13th and 14th years of the Reign of the late King Charles 2. Entituled An Act for preventing abuses in Printing Seditions Treasonable and Unlicensed
for every 100 weight of Steel containing as aforesaid 5 s. 6 d. and so in proportion for every 100 weight of Anvils containing as aforesaid 9 s. 3 d. and so in proportion for every hundred of single white or black Plates 4 s. 4 d. and so in proportion For every hundred of double white or black Plates 8 s. 8 d. and so in proportion for every Harnessplate or Iron double 1 s. 4 d. for every 100 weight of Iron drawn or hammered less then three quarters of an Inch square and all other Iron Ware manufactured containing as aforesaid 5 s. Provided that no manufactured Iron Ware hereby charged to pay by the Piece or Hundred weight shall be liable to pay by the Tun. And for every 100 weight of Brass Latten or Copper-Wire containing as aforesaid 15 s. and so in proportion XXIV For every Last of Hemp-seed Cole-seed and Rape-seed 4 l. XXV For all Yarn of Flax or Hemp other then Cable-Yarn an additional Duty of as much as is now charged in the Book of Rates for every 100 weight of Cable-Yarn 5 s. and so in proportion XXVI For all manufactures of Glass except Rhenish and Muscovia Window-glass 3 s. for every 20 s. value above what is already charged XXVII For every 100 weight of Molosses containing as aforesaid imported from any other place then the English Plantations in America 8 s. XXVIII For every 100 weight of Tallow containing as aforesaid 5 s. and so in proportion for every 100 weight of Tallow-Candles containing as aforesaid 10 s. and so in proportion XXIX For every pound of Bever-wooll cut and comb'd except Wooll comb'd in Russia and imported thence in English Vessels 15 s. XXX For every Barrel of Pot-ashes containing 200 weight neat 8 s. and so in proportion XXXI For every 100 weight of Cordage ready wrought containing as aforesaid 5 s. and so in proportion XXXII For every Tun of Olive-Oyl imported 4 s. and so in proportion XXXIII For every Ream of Royal Paper 2 s. of Blue Paper Demy Paper and painted Paper 1 s. 6 d. for every Bundle of Brown Paper 2 d. and for all other Paper as much more as is now charged in the Book of Rates XXXIV For every 100 weight of Liquorice containing 112 pounds 18 s. and so in proportion for every such 100 weight of Liquorice Powder 1 l. 17 s. 4 d. for every pound weight of Juice of Liquorice 1 s. and so in proportion XXXV For every 100 weight of Barilla or Saphora containing 112 pound 2 s. 6 d. and so in proportion XXXVI For every 100 weight of Sope containing as aforesaid 10 s. and so in proportion XXXVII For all Earthen Ware not mentioned in the Book of Rates 2 s. 6 d. for every 20 s. value XXXVIII For every 100 weight of Starch containing ut supra 20 s. and so in proportion XXXIX For every 100 weight of Allom containing ut supra 2 s. 6 d. and so in proportion XL. For every 100 weight of Brimstone containing ut supra 4 s. 8 d. and so in proportion XLI For every 100 weight of Tin containing ut supra 30 s. and so in proportion XLII Where any Duties upon Goods and Merchandize hereby granted are to be levied according to the value the value shall be taken according to the Books of Rates if such Goods are particularly there rated if not the value shall be taken by the Importers Oath the Duties hereby imposed not to be reckon'd into the value XLIII For all additional Duties hereby imposed the Importer giving security shall have 12 Months time where the same is not otherwise limited for payment thereof by four quarterly payments or upon present payment shall have 10 l. per Cent. abated him And if such Goods or Merchandize be again exported within a Twelve Month the additional Duty shall be repaid and Security vacated XLIV The Duties hereby imposed shall not affect such foreign Stores as have been sold for the use of the Navy by Contract with the Navy-board or Commissioners for the victualling before the 15th day of November 1690. XLV The Duties hereby imposed shall be raised collected and paid in manner and form and by such Rules and under such Penalties and Forfeitures as are mentioned in the Act of Tonnage and Poundage Anno 12 Car. 2. and the Rules and Orders thereunto annexed XLVI Any persons may advance Money to Their Majesties upon the Security of this Act at 8 l. per Cent. for forbearance and no more XLVII All Moneys that shall be paid into the Exchequer by virtue of this Act shall be registred apart and distinct from all other Moneys payable upon any other Branch of the Revenue And they that lend Money on the Credit of this Act shall have Tallies of Loan struck for the same and Orders for repayment bearing date with their Tallies in which Orders there shall be Warrants for payment of Interest at the Rate of 8 l. per Cent. per Annum to be paid every Three Months such Orders to be registred in course without preference And all persons shall be paid in course according as their Orders stand entred No Fee Reward or Gratuity shall be taken for providing or making any such Registers Entries View or Search in or for payment of Money lent or the Interest by any of Their Majesties Officers their Clerks or Deputies on pain of payment of treble Damages to the Party grieved with Costs of Suit and the Officer demanding any such Fee shall lose his place And if any undue preference be made in point of Registry or Payment the Party offending shall be liable by Action of Debt or of the Case to pay the value of the Debt Damages and Costs to the Party grieved and shall be fore-judged his Place or Office XLVIII If several Tallies of Loan or Orders for payment bear date or be brought the same day to the Auditor of the Receipt it shall be no undue preference which he enters first so he enters all the same day XLIX Nor shall it be interpreted any undue preference if the Auditor direct and the Clerk of the Pells record and Tellers pay subsequent Orders of persons that come and demand their money and bring their Orders before others that do not come to demand theirs so as there be so much money left as will satisfie precedent Orders L. Moneys due by virtue of this Act After Order entred in the Register may by Endorsement of the Order be assigned and transferred and the Assignee may in like manner assign and so toties quoties But such Endorsement must be notified in the Office of the Auditor of Receipt and an Entry or Memorandum made thereof in the Book of Register for Orders LI. Sat. 2. W. M. Sess 2. cap 5. The several Impositions and Duties upon Wines and Vinegar granted by an Act made in the 1st year of the late King James II. shall be continued from the 23th of June 1693. until the 24th of June 1696.
Low-wines drawn from Drink so mixed with 12 d. a Gallon XXXVI No Distillers or others drawing Low-wines or Spirits from Corn prepared as aforesaid shall prepare any wash from Molossus or other Materials from any other Person until he has drawn off and distilled all the Liquors made or prepared from Corn as aforesaid on pain to forfeit for every Barrel of such Liquors made of Corn found undistilled 5 l. XXXVII If any Gauger or other Officer of the Excise shall wittingly make a false Charge by returning any quantity of Low-wines not made from malted Corn as made from malted Corn he shall lose his Employment and forfeit for every Gallon so falsly charged 10 s. XXXVIII Distillers and others upon Oath made before two Commissioners of Excise or Justices of the Peace That any Brandy or Strong waters intended to be Exported was drawn from Drink brewed from malted Corn without any mixture and that the same is not mix'd with any Low-wines nor drawn a second time nor with any other Spirits or Brandy made from any other Materials and that the Duties of the same are entred and paid and that the same are Exported for Merchandise may Export such Spirits or Brandy and upon a Certificate from the Officer of Excise for the Place where they were shipt off of the quantity and the same were shipt in the presence of such Officers such Exporter shall be paid by the Commissioners for such Port or Place 3 d. for every Gallon shipt off XXXIX The Gaugers shall take an Account of all Wash and other Materials prepared for making Low-wines and of all Low-wines Spirits and Strong-waters found in the Houses c. or in any Wash-back Cask or other Vessel used by any Maker of Low-wines or Spirits and if they miss any Liquor brewed which they sound gauged the last time they were there not exceeding 24 hours before and shall not receive Satisfaction what is become of it they shall charge the Distiller with so much Low-wines as such Liquor missing would have made XL. From the said 24th day of Decemb. no Maker of Low-wines c. shall set their Stills at work or deliver or carry out any Low-wines c. to their Customers in Cask or by the Gallon without Notice given to the Officer of Excise for the Place where he lives unless from the 29th day of Septemb. to the 25th of March yearly between 5 in the Morning and 8 at Night and from the 25th of March to the 29th of Septemb. between 3 in the Morning and 9 at Night on pain to forfeit for every such Offence 10 l. XLI The Duties hereby imposed shall be levyed in such manner and under such Penalties as are directed by an Act of Parliament made in the 12th year of K. Charles II. Entituled An Act for taking away the Court of wards and Liveries c. And by another Act in the 15th year of his Reign Entituled An Additional Act for the better Ordering and collecting the Duties of Excise and Preventing the Abuses therein or by any other Law now in force relating to the Excise XLII Fines Penalties and Forfeitures hereby imposed shall be recovered as by any Law of Excise is directed or by Action of Debt Bill Plaint or Information in any Their Majesties Courts of Record at Westminster one Moiety to Their Majesties and the other to the Prosecutor XLIII Any Persons during the continuance of this Act may distil for Sale any Low-wines or Spirits from Drink brewed from malted Corn only paying the Duties and being subject to the Penalties as other Distillers XLIV Strong-waters Brandy Aqua vitae or Spirits brought from Guernsey Jersey Sark or Alderney shall be charged with 8 s. a Gallon to be paid to the Collector upon Entry before landing and other Exciseable Liquors brought from thence except Beer Ale and Mum shall be chargeable with the like Duties as are charged upon the like Liquors made in this Kingdom And before the landing of any such Liquor the Importer or owner shall make oath before the Collector or principal Officer of the Customs of the Port where they are to be landed That they are of the Growth and Manufacture of the said Islands and not mix'd with any foreign Materials and if they be Imported before due Entry such Oath made and the Duties paid they shall be destroyed and Persons concerned in their Importation shall incur the Penalties mentioned in an Act made in the 1st year of Their Majesties Reign Entituled An Act for prohibiting all Trade and Commerce with France XLV All Letters Patents made or to be made for the sole making of Brandy c. from Corn of any sorts as a new Invention are hereby declared void XLVI Stat. 2 W. M. Sess 2. cap. 10. From the 17th day of November 1691. there shall be paid during 4 Years for the Liquors hereafter-mentioned over and above Impositions already set as followeth viz. For a Barrel of Beer or Ale above 6 s. the Barrel 1 s. 6 d. For every such Barrel of 6 s. or under 6 d. For every Barrel of Vinegar or Vinegar-beer made with English Materials 3 s. For every Barrel of Vinegar or Liquor prepared for Vinegar made with Foreign Materials 8 s. For every barrel of Beer Ale or Mum Imported 6 s. For every Tun of Cyder or Perry Imported 8 l. For every Gallon of Single Brandy Spirits or Aqua vitae Imported 4 s. For every such Gallon above Proof Imported 8 s. For every Hogshead of Cyder and Perry made and sold by retail 2 s. 6 d. For all Metheglin and Mead made for sale 6 d. a Gallon XLVII The said Rates and Duties to be levied in such manner and under such Penalties as are mentioned in an Act of Parliament made in the 1st year of Their Majesties Reign Entituled An Act for an Additional Duty of Excise upon Beer Ale and other Liquors or by any Law in force relating to the Excise XLVIII Nothing in this Act shall be construed to continue the Duties granted by an Act in the 1st year of Their Majesties Reign Entituled An Act for an Additional Duty of Excise c. or any other Duties of Excise for any longer time then they are granted by the said Act or Acts. XLIX Victuallers Retailers or Common Brewers who within a year before the 17th of November last have not brewed their own Beer and Ale may brew and make the Beer and Ale spent or sold in their Houses c. paying the Excise and on their entring the same at the Excise-Office and paying the Duty they shall not be liable to the Penalty of 100 l. imposed by an Act of this Parliament Entituled An Act for doubling the Duty of Excise upon Beer Ale and other Liquors for the space of One Year L. All Moneys which shall become payable to Their Majesties by Virtue of the said Act Entituled An Act for an Additional Duty of Excise upon Beer Ale and other Liquors after the Sum of
600000 l. shall be paid to the States General of the United Provinces and all moneys to be levied by Virtue of this Act shall be applied to the Uses following viz. 570000 l. to the building and furnishing 27 Ships of War whereof 17 to be of the Third Rate and to contain 1100 Tuns and carry 80 Guns apiece and 10 to be of the Fourth Rate and to contain 900 Tuns and carry 60 Guns apiece The said Ships to be built and furnished with all convenient Expedition and the whole number to be compleat within 4 years from the 25th day of March 1691. LI. And that the said Sum of 570000 l. may be applied accordingly and Their Majesties be enabled to borrow upon the Credit of this Act any Sum not exceeding 1000000 l. for the Uses of the War Be it Enacted That after the payment of the said 600000 l. to the States General until the 18th day of Novemb. 1695. the Commissioners of Excise shall keep apart the Moneys arising by the said Act Entituled An Act for an Additional Duty of Excise c. and the Moneys arising by this Act and the Auditor or Comptroller of the Excise or their Deputies shall keep a distinct Account of the said Moneys to which all persons may have access without Fee and the said Commissioners of Excise shall pay the said moneys weekly into the Receipt of the Exchequer apart from other moneys LII And the Officers of the Receipt of the Exchequer shall keep the moneys paid in by Virtue of this Act or of the said former Act and the Account thereof apart and a particular Account of the building and furnishing the said Ships LIII Out of the moneys so from time to time paid in one third Part shall yearly be paid out towards the building and furnishing the said Ships and the Commissioners of the Treasury shall sign no Warrant for issuing out any Part of the said third Part to any but the Treasurer of the Navy or Treasurer or Paymaster of the Ordnance expressing therein that the same is for building and furnishing the said 27 Ships of War nor shall the Auditor of the Receipt draw any Order for issuing any Part thereof otherwise then as aforesaid nor shall he direct or the Clerk of the Pells record or the Teller pay any part thereof by Virtue of any Warrant or Order otherwise then as aforesaid LIV. The Treasurer of the Navy and Treasurer or Paymaster of the Ordnance may transfer any part thereof payable to them upon any Order by Endorsement upon such Order and such Assignee may assign toties quoties LV. The Treasurer of the Navy and Treasurer or Paymaster of the Ordnance shall keep such moneys apart and issue the same by Warrant from the principal Officers and Commissioners of the Navy or Ordnance respectively or any three or more of them mentioning that it is for building and furnishing the said Ships Nor shall the said principal Officers and Commissioners sign any Warrant for paying any of the said money to any other Use or Purpose LVI Any Persons may lend moneys upon the Credit of two third Parts of the moneys to be brought in by Virtue of this Act not exceeding 1000000 l. and have Interest at the rate of 7 l. per Cent. LVII And if the Commissioners or Governours of the Excise refuse or neglect to pay in the said moneys as aforesaid or misapply any part thereof and if any Officer belonging to the Exchequer Navy or Ordnance shall offend against any Clause of this Act or misapply any money contrary to the intent thereof they shall lose their Places and be disabled to execute any Office or Place of Trust and shall pay the full Value of any Sum so misapplied to any person who will sue for the same in any of Their Majesties Courts of Record at Westminster LVIII And no Stay of Prosecution shall be admitted by any Court in any Proceeding for the Recovery of any the Penalties by this Act inflicted or for or in order to the Conviction or disability of any person offending against this Act. LIX After the 25th Day of December 1690. during the continuance of the Act made this Session Entituled An Act for Granting to Their Majesties certain Impositions upon all East-India Goods and Manufactures and upon all wrought Silks c. and of one other Act Entituled An Act for the continuance of several former Acts therein mentioned for the laying several Duties upon Wines Vinegar and Tobacco there shall be within London an Office for the Receipt of the Moneys payable to Their Majesties by virtue of the said Acts In which such Moneys shall be paid to the Receivers General of the Customs to be appointed by Their Majesties who shall keep apart the Moneys payable by virtue of the said first mentioned Act and shall likewise keep apart the Moneys payable by the said Act next recited which Moneys shall remain from time to time after the Payments which shall be made thereout by any Laws in force upon Debentures for Goods that shall be Reshipt or for Corn Exported or upon Discounts upon Bonds and of such Allowances of damaged Goods and of Bills of Portage as have usually been made And the Comptroller General of the Accounts of the Customs shall keep distinct Accounts of the said respective Sums of Moneys to which all Persons may have resort without Fee and the said Receiver or Receivers General shall weekly pay the same into the Receipt of the Exchequer apart from other Moneys and if they neglect so to do or misapply the same they shall Forfeit their Office and be incapable of any Place of Trust and shall Pay the value of the Sum misapplied to him that will Sue for the same LX. Out of the Money which shall be paid by virtue of this Act into the Exchequer 700000 l. shall be Appropriated to the Payment of Seamen that shall serve in the Navy the Year 1691. and to the building of Three Ships of the Third Rate to contain each 1050 Tuns and for providing them Furniture and to the Paying for Stores and Victuals for the Navy and to the Expence of the Office of Ordnance with respect to Naval Affairs and to other necessary Uses of the Navy in the Time aforesaid And out of all other Money that shall be Paid into the Exchequer upon Loan or otherwise by virtue of this or any other Act of this Session for Granting Aids or Supplies for reducing Ireland or Prosecuting the War against France other then what is Appropriated by this Act and the Act For Granting an Aid to Their Majesties of the Sum of 751702 l. 18 s. for the Payment of Seamen c. the Sum of 1500000 l. shall be Appropriated to the payment of the Land Forces and other Charges relating thereunto And all other Moneys payable into the Exchequer by virtue of any of the said Acts shall be Applyed to the Prosecution of the War against France and Reducing of Ireland and the
shall be charged upon the Credit of the Exchequer in General and Tallies of Loan and Orders of Repayment levied which Orders shall be assignable LXXXV All Sums of Money so to be borrowed with Interest for the same not exceeding 7 l. per Cent. or so much thereof as shall not be repaid out of the Money that shall be advanced upon the Terms herein mentioned at or after the 24th day of June 1693. and before the 29th of September following all which Moneys to be advanced between the said 24th of June and 29th of September shall be appropriated for the discharging the Loans made upon this Act shall be satisfied to the Lenders out of any of the next Aids to be granted in Parliament and shall be transferrable as soon as such Aid shall be granted And in case no Aid be granted before the 2d of February 1693. the said Sums shall be satisfied out of any of Their Majesties Treasure not already appropriated by Act of Parliament LXXXVI And if the Sum of 500000 l. part of the said Sum of 1000000 l. be not advanced before the 1st of May 1693. Their Majesties may borrow upon Interest as aforesaid any Sum not exceeding 500000 l. to be paid out of such Moneys as shall be advanced upon this Act between the said 1st day of May and the said 29th day of September in case the Money so advanced be sufficient or otherwise so much thereof as the same shall extend to pay and the residue of the said Sum of 500000 l. shall be reckoned as part of the said Sum before directed to be paid out of the next Aids to be granted in Parliament LXXXVII If the whole Sum of 1000000 l. be not advanced before the said 1st day of May any persons after that day and before the 29th of September next following may advance any Sums not exceeding in the whole with what shall have been advanced before the said 1st day of May the Sum of 1000000 l. upon the Terms following viz. That every such Person out of the Duties arising by this Act shall have for every 100 l. a yearly Annuity of 14 l. for his own or any other Life to be by him nominated as aforesaid within 6 days after Payment which Annuities shall commence from the 29th of September 1693. and be paid at the Four most usual Feasts in the year And upon Payment of any such Sums the Persons paying the same shall have one or more Tallies importing the Receipt thereof and Orders for Payment c. to be sign'd as aforesaid and not to be revocable and to be assignable And the Moneys arising by the Duties hereby granted besides so much as shall bear proportion as aforesaid to the Sum which shall be advanced before the 1st day of May 1693. shall be appropriated to the Payment of the said Annuities and not be diverted under the like Penalties as are before appointed in case of misapplying c. The said Officers shall keep Books and make Entries of their Names who shall advance Money after the said 1st day of May and of the Sums advanced and the times of paying in and the Names of the Nominees without Reward to which Books all Persons concern'd shall have access under the Penalties and Disabilities aforesaid and they that shall advance any Sum after the said 1st of May shall have Interest for it till the 29th of Septem 1693. at the rate of 10 l. per Cent. LXXXVIII If any Contributor who shall have advanced any Sum before the said 1st of May shall before the said 29th of September be desirous in lieu of his Share in the Fonds to have an Annuity of 14 l. a year for any Sum of 100 l. by him advanced during the Life of his Nominee a Memorial thereof shall be entred in a Book for that purpose to be kept in the Receipt and the said Entry being sign'd by such Contributor he shall receive such Annuity as if the Moneys by him advanced had been paid in after the 1st day of May And such Contributors Share in the Fonds shall determine for Their Majesties Benefit LXXXIX The Surplus of any Money arising by this Act after the several Proportions of the Fonds and the Annuities and Interest paid shall be to the Use of Their Majesties XC No Moneys lent or payable by Virtue of this Act shall be charged with any Impositions whatsoever XCI Grants or Dispositions of any Money arising by this Act to be made by Their Majesties Their Heirs c. otherwise then by this Act is appointed shall be null and void Frauds I. STat. 3 4 W. M. cap. 14. All Wills concerning Lands or any Rents Profits Term or Charge out of the same whereof the Devisors shall be seiz'd in Fee-simple in Possession Reversion or Remainder or have power to dispose thereof after the 25th day of March 1692. shall be deemed only as against Creditors upon Bonds or other Specialties their Executors c. to be fraudulent and void II. And such Creditors shall have their Actions of Debt against the Heirs at Law and such Devisees joyntly and such Devisees shall be chargeable for a false Plea as any Heir should have been III. Where there shall have been any Devises of Lands for Payment of just Debts or Childrens Portions other then the Heir at Law in pursuance of any Marriage Agreement made in Writing bona fide before such Marriage they shall be in force IV. Where any Heir at Law shall be liable to pay the Debt of his Ancestor in regard of any Lands descending to him and shall make over the same before any Action brought such Heir shall be answerable for such Debts to the Value of the Land made over in which Cases all Creditors shall be preferred as in Actions against Executors and Administrators and Execution upon any Judgment so obtained shall be taken out against such Heir to the Value of the Land as if they were his own Debts saving that Lands bona fide aliened before the Action brought shall not be liable to such Execution V. Where any Action of Debt upon a Specialty is brought against an Heir he may Plead Riens per discent at the time of the Original Writ brought and the Plaintiff may Reply that he had Lands from his Ancestor before the Original Writ brought and if upon Issue joyn'd thereon it be found for the Plaintiff the Jury shall enquire of the Value of the Lands descended and thereupon Judgment shall be given and Execution awarded as aforesaid but if Judgment be given against such Heir by Confession without Confessing the Assets descended or upon demurier or nihil dicit it shall be for the Debt and Damages without any Writ to enquire of the Lands VI. Devisees made liable by this Act shall be Chargeable as the Heir at Law by force of this Act though the Lands Devised be Aliened before the Action brought VII This Act to continue for Three Years and to the End of the then
or receiving any Pay Salary Fee or Wages as aforesaid or being Master Governor c. and others aforesaid neglecting so to do shall be ipso facto adjudged incapable to enjoy any such Office Pay Salary Fee or Wages Mastership Governors Place Headship Fellowship Employment or any Matter aforesaid of Profit appertaining thereunto and such Office and Place shall be adjudged void X. Barristers at Law Attornies Clerks and Officers in Chancery and other Courts and their Deputies or that shall Practise as such in Ireland after the last day of Hillary-Term next shall take the said Oaths and make and subscribe the said Declaration in the Kings Bench at Dublin before they be admitted to exercise any Place or Office or to Practise or Plead in any Court and all Persons that after the first day of March next shall be admitted into any Office or Employment or come into any Capacity by reason of which they should have been obliged to take the said abrogated Oaths shall take the said Oaths and make and subscribe the Declaration hereby appointed at such times and before such Persons as they ought to have taken the said former Oath by virtue of the said Act. XI No Person that is or shall be a Peer of Ireland shall Vote or make his Proxy in the House of Peers or sit there during any Debate nor shall any Member of the House of Commons vote or sit there during any Debate after the Speaker is chosen unless he first take the said Oaths and make subscribe and repeat this Declaration viz. I A. B. do solemnly and sincerely in the presence of God profess testifie and declare That I do believe that in the Sacrament of the Lords Supper there is not any Transubstantiation of the Elements of Bread and Wine into the Body and Blood of Christ at or after the Consecration thereof by any Person whatsoever and that the Invocation or Adoration of the Virgin Mary or any other Saint and the Sacrifice of the Mass as they are now used in the Church of Rome are Superstitious and Idolatrous And I do solemnly in the presence of God profess testifie and declare That I do make this Declaration and every part thereof in the plain and ordinary sense of the Words read unto me as they are commonly understood by Protestants without any Evasion Equivocation or mental Reservation whatsoever and without any Dispensation already granted me for this purpose from the Pope or any other Authority or Person whatsoever or without Dispensation from any Person or Authority whatsoever or without believing that I am or can be acquitted before God or Man or absolved of this Declaration or any part thereof although the Pope or any other Person or Persons or Power whatsoever should dispense with or annul the same or declare that it was null and void from the beginning XII Which said Oaths and Declaration shall in the next and every Parliament in Ireland be made and subscribed between 9 in the Morning and 4 in the Afternoon by the Peers at the Table in the middle of the House before they take their Place and whilst a full House is present and their Speaker in his Place and by the Members of the House of Commons at the Table in the middle of their House when a full House is sitting with their Speaker in his Chair in such method as each House is called over during which time all Business to cease and the Clerks are to Record the same taking of every Member of each House 1 s. XIII Peers and Members of the House of Commons Barristers at Law Attornies Clerks or Officers in Chancery or other Courts and Deputies in any Office offending contrary to this Act shall be disabled to hold any Office or Place of Profit or Trust Ecclesiastical Civil or Military there or here or in any of their Majesties Islands or Plantations and shall be disabled to sit in Parliament or make a Proxy or to sue at Law or in Equity or to be Guardian or Executor or Administrator or to take a Legacy or Deed or Gift and shall forfeit 500 l. to be recovered by them that will sue for the same XIV The Oaths required to be taken by this Act are these viz. I A. B. do sincerely promise and swear that I will be faithful and bear true Allegiance to their Majesties King William and Queen Mary So help me God I A. B. do swear That I do from my Heart abhor detest and abjure as Impious and Heretical that damnable Doctrin and Position That Princes excommunicated and deprived by the Pope or any Authority of the See of Rome may be deposed or murthered by their Subjects or any other whatsoever And I do declare That no Foreign Prince Person Prelate State or Potentate hath or ought to have any Jurisdiction Power Superiority Preheminence or Authority Ecclesiastical or Spiritual within this Realm So help me God XV. This Act shall not extend to any now Chaplain Secretary or Attendant to any of their Majesties Ambassadors Envoys or Ministers in any foreign Courts or Preacher to any English Factory or to any Chaplains in their Majesties Service by Sea or Land out of Ireland so as they take the said Oaths and make and subscribe the said Declaration within three months after their return nor to any Protestant now in Office or Place of Trust or Profit out of Ireland or England who shall return into Ireland and take the same before the 25th of December 1692. in the Kings Bench there the next Term after their arrival there XVI Archbishops and Bishops of Ireland and others having any Ecclesiastical Office or Promotion or being a Lecturer or Curate there that shall be in England the first day of Hillary-Term 1691. shall take the said Oaths and make and subscribe the said Declaration before the end of the said Term in the Chancery or Court of Kings Bench here and again before the 25th day of July 1692. in the Chancery or Court of Kings Bench there as aforesaid and if they neglect or refuse so to do they shall be ipso facto deprived and become incapable to be Lecturers or Curates any where and all other the Persons above mentioned who shall be here on the first day of the said Hillary-Term shall take the said Oaths and make and subscribe the said Declaration in Chancery or the Kings Bench in England or elsewhere shall be adjudged ipso facto incapable and disabled to hold and enjoy such Office pay c. Imployment or any part of them which taking the said Oaths c. in England shall be as effectual as if they had taken the same in Ireland XVII This Act shall not extend to disable any Persons who on the third of October 1691. were residing in Lymerick or in any Garrison then in the possession of the Irish or any Officers or Souldiers then in Arms by virtue of any Commission from the late King James or any commissioned Officers then in their
any Ecclesiastical Court for not conforming to the Church of England IV. Provided always that if any Assembly of Persons dissenting from the Church of England shall be had in any place for Religious Worship with the Doors locked barred or bolted the persons that shall be at such Meetings shall receive no benefit from this Law V. Nothing herein contained shall exempt any Persons from paying Tithes or other Parochial Duties to the Church or Minister nor from any prosecution in any Ecclesiastical Court or elsewhere for the same VI. If any person dissenting from the Church of England shall be chosen or appointed to any Parochial or Ward-Office and shall scruple to take it upon him in regard of the said Oaths or any other thing required by Law such person may execute his Office by a Deputy that shall comply with the Laws in that behalf such Deputy to be allowed and approved as such Officer himself should have been VII No person dissenting from the Church of England in Orders or pretended Orders nor any Preacher or Teacher in any Congregation of Dissenting Protestants that shall make and subscribe the Declaration and take the Oaths aforesaid at the General Quarter-Sessions held for the Parts where he lives and shall declare his approbation of and subscribe the Articles of Religion mentioned in a Statute made in the 13th year of the Reign of Queen Elizabeth except the 34th 35th and 36th Articles and these words of the 20th Article viz. The Church hath power to decree Rites and Ceremonies and Authority in Controversies of Faith and yet shall be liable to any of the Pains or Penalties mentioned in an Act made in the 17th year of the Reign of King Charles II. Entituled An Act for restraining Non-conformists from inhabiting in Corporations nor the Penalties mentioned in the said Act of the 22th of the said Kings Reign for preaching at any Meeting for exercise of Religion nor to the penalty of 100 l. mentioned in an Act made in the 13th and 14th of King Charles II. Entituled An Act for the uniformity of Publick Prayers and administration of Sacraments c. for officiating in any Congregation allowed by this Act. VIII The making and subscribing the said Declaration and taking the said Oaths and making the Declaration of approbation and subscription to the said Articles shall be recorded at such Quarter-Sessions for which 6 d. shall be paid and no more IX Such persons shall not preach in any place but with Doors not locked barred or bolted X. And whereas some dissenting Protestants scruple the Baptizing of Infants Be it enacted That every person pretending to Holy Orders who shall subscribe the said Articles of Religion except before excepted and also except part of 27th ARticle touching Infant-Baptism and shall take the Oaths and make and subscribe the Declaration aforesaid as aforesaid shall enjoy all the Priviledges Benefits and Advantages which any other dissenting Minister might enjoy by virtue of this Act. XI Ministers Preachers or Teachers of Congregations that shall take the Oaths and make and subscribe the Declaration aforesaid and subscribe such of the Articles of the Church as are hereby required shall be exempt from serving upon Juries or from being chosen or appointed to any Parochial or Ward-Office or any other Office in any Hundred Shire City Town c. XII Every Justice of Peace may require any person that goes to any Meeting for exercise of Religion to make and subscribe the said Declaration and take the said Oaths or Declaration of Fidelity hereafter mentioned in case such person Scruple the taking an Oath and upon refusal shall commit such person to prison and certifie his Name at the next General or Quarter-Sessions and if upon a second tender at next General or Quarter-Sessions he refuse as aforesaid he shall be recorded and taken for a Popish Recusant convict XIII And whereas there are other Dissenters who scruple the taking any Oath such persons shall make and subscribe the said Declaration and this Declaration of Fidelity viz. I A. B. do sincerely promise and solemnly declare before God and the World That I will be ture and faithful to King William and Queen Mary And I do solemnly promise and declare That I do from my Heart abhor detest and renounce as Impious and Heretical that damnable Doctrin and Position That Princes excommunicated or deprived by the Pope or any Authority of the See of Rome may be deposed or murthered by their Subjects or any other what soever And I do declare That no Foreign Prince Person Prelate State or Potentate hath or ought to have any Power Jurisdiction Superiority Preheminence or Authority Ecclesiastical or Spiritual within this Realm and shall subscribe a profession of their Christian Belief in these Words viz. I A. B. profess Faith in God the Father and in Jesus Christ his eternal Son the true God and in the Holy Spirit one God blessed for evermore and do acknowledge the Holy Scriptures of the Old and New Testament to be given by Divine Inspiration which Declarations and Subscriptions shall be recorded at the General Quarter-Sessions and Persons making and subscribing the two Declarations and Profession aforesaid shall be exempted from the penalties of the Laws against Popish Recusants or Protestant Non-conformists and from the penalties of an Act made in the 5th year of the Reign of Queen Elizabeth Entituled An Act for the assurance of the Queens Royal Power over all Estates and Subjects within her Dominions by reason of their refusing to take the Oath mentioned in the said Act and from the penalties of an Act made in the 13th and 14th years of King Charles II. Entitutled An Act for preventing Mischiefs that may arise by certain Persons called Quakers refusing to take lawful Oaths and enjoy the Benefits Priviledges and Advantages which other Dissenters ought to enjoy by virtue of this Act. XIV Persons refusing to take the said Oaths when tendred shall not be admitted to make and subscribe the said two Declarations though required by a Justice of Peace at a General oâ— Quarter-Sessions unless within 31 days after such tender of the Declarations to them they produce two Protestant Witnesses to testifie upon Oath that they believe him to be a Protestant Dissenter or a Certificate under the Hands of four Protestants who are conformable to the Church of England or have taken the Oaths and subscribed the Declaration aforesaid and a Certificate under the Hands and Seals of six or more of the Congregation to which he belongs owning him to be one of them XV. Till such Certificate or Witnesses be produced the Justice of Peace shall take a Recognizance with two Sureties in 50 l. for producing the same and for want of security shall commit him to prison till he produces the same XVI All the Laws made for frequenting Divine Service on the Lords-day shall be still in force against all persons except they come to some Assembly of Religious Worship allowed by this Act.
suffer a Discontinuance or if a Verdict pass against him the Defendant shall recover his double Costs II. Stat. 2 W. M. Sess 2. cap. 13. All personal Actions Suits Indictments Informations and other Prosecutions for apprehending and imprisoning suspected Persons and seizing and using Horses and Arms and causing the greatest part of the Militia of this Kingdom to be raised and maintained otherwise than is authorized by the Acts made in the Reign of the late King Charles II. and to march and be quartered in divers places for their Majesties Service and the Safety of the Kingdom in pursuance of Orders from the Privy Council in this present year 1690. about the time that the Coasts of this Kingdom were invaded by the French be and are hereby discharged and made void and if any Suit hath been or shall be prosecuted the Defendant may plead the General Issue and give this Act and the Special Matter in Evidence and if the Plaintiff become non-suit or forbear Prosecution or suffer a Discontinuance or a Verdict pass against him the Defendant shall recover his double Costs III. Stat. 4 5 W. M. cap. 19. Whereas in this present year 1692. there were great Preparations for an Invasion intended from France the Lords of the Council and others by their Authority having imprisoned several suspected Persons and seized Horses and Arms and caused some part of the Militia to be raised continued and maintained otherwise than is authorized by the Acts made in the Reign of King Charles II. and to march and be quartered in divers places that the Parties concerned in those Proceedings in that extraodinary juncture may be indemnified Be it enacted That all Prosecutions whatsoever by reason of the Premisses be discharged and made void And if any Action or Suit hath been or shall be commenced or prosecuted for the same the Person so sued may plead the General Issue and give this Act and the Special Matter in Evidence and if the Plaintiff shall be non-suit or forbear Prosecution or suffer a Discontinuance or that a Verdict pass against him the Defendant shall recover his double Costs Taxes I. STat. 1. W. M. Sess 1. cap. 3. An Act for granting a present Aid to their Majesties Exp. II. Stat. 1 W. M. Sess 1. cap. 13. An Act for raising Mony by a Poll and otherwise towards the reducing of Ireland III. Stat. 1 W. M. Sess 1. cap. 20. An Act for a Grant to their Majesties of an Aid of 12 d. in the pound for one year for the necessary defence of their Realms IV. Stat. 1 W. M. Sess 1. cap. 31. An additional Act for the appointing Commissioners for the executing an Act of this present Parliament Entituled An Act for a Grant to their Majesties of an Aid of twelve pence in the pound for one year for the necessary defence of their Realms V. Stat. 1 W. M. Sess 2. cap. 1. An Act for granting to their Majesties an Aid of one shilling in the pound for one year VI. Stat. 1 W. M. Sess 2. cap. 5. An Act for a Grant to their Majesties of an additional Aid of twelve pence in the pound for one year VII Stat. 1 W. M. Sess 2. cap. 7. An Act for review of the late Poll granted to their Majesties and for an additional Poll towards the reducing of Ireland VIII Stat. 2 W. M. Sess 1. cap. 2. An Act for raising Mony by a Poll and otherwise towards the reducing of Ireland and prosecuting the War against France IX Stat. 2 W. M. Sess 2. cap. 1. Aâ— Act for granting an Aid to their Majesties of the Sum of 1651702 l. 18 s. Exp. X. Stat. 3 4 W. M. cap. 5. An Act for granting an Aid to their Majesties of the Sum of sixteen hundred fifty one thousand seven hundred and two pounds eighteen shillings towards the carrying on a vigorous War against France XI Stat. 3 4 W. M. cap. 6. An Act for raising Mony by a Poll payable quarterly for one year for the carrying on a vigorous War against France XII Stat. 4 5 W. M. cap. 1. An Act for granting to their Majesties an Aid of four shillings in the pound for one year for carrying on a vigorous War against France XIII Stat. 4 5 W. M. cap. 14. All Persons who were not at all or not fully and duly assessed according to the intent of an Act made the last Session of this present Parliament Entituled An Act for raising Mony by a Poll c. shall be assessed and taxed as they ought to have been by the same XIV In order whereunto such as are or shall be qualified to act as Commissioners for putting in execution an Act of this Session of Parliament Entituled An Act for granting to their Majesties an Aid of 4 s. in the pound c. shall be Commissioners for executing this Act within their several Divisions and shall have and execute the like Powers Rules and Directions as the Commissioners had or ought to have executed by virtue of the said poll-Poll-Act And all Persons concerned in the assessing collecting receiving or paying any Monies by virtue of this Act shall have the like Benesits and be subject to the like Penalties in case of neglect or resusal to pay the Sums assessed or to perform their Duties as in such case any Person by virtue of the said Poll-Act ought to have or be subject to XV. Deputy-Lieutenants and other Officers of the Militia having Estates of such value as ought to find or contribute to a Horse shall pay for such Estates although they be not actually charged to find or contriâ—ute to find a Horse c. And all who at the time of the Execution of the said poll-Poll-Act were or had been Justices of Peace Sheriffs or Deputy-Lieutenants or who were appointed Commissioners by virtue of the said Act being worth 300 l. and were not assessed 20 s. quarterly shall pay after that rate or so much as with what they have paid will make up 20 s. quarterly In like manner Clergy-men having in Estate Ecclesiastical or Temporal or both 60 l. per annum shall pay after the same rate and in all other things the said Act shall be fully executed XVI The respective Commissioners shall meet on the 4th of April 1693. and the said Sums shall be assessed and paid to the Receivers of the Counties on or before the 24th day of June 1693. and answered into their Majesties Exchequer on or before the 12th day of July 1693. XVII If upon the return of the Duplicates it shall appear that the said Sums of Mony do not amount to 300000 l. their Majesties may borrow by way of Loan any Sum or Sums which together with the amount of what shall be levied by virtue of this Act shall not exceed in the whole 300000 l. which Sum or Sums shall be charged upon the credit of their Majesties Exchequer in General and
all Sheriffs Mayors Bailiffs Constables and other Officers are required to be aiding in the execution of this Act No Officer whatsoever relating to the Customs shall sign suffer or allow of any Warrant or Order for delivering of any Goods prohibited by this Act to any Person or into any Place other than into one of their Majesties Ware-houses there to remain till Judgment pass according to this Act nor shall any Person whatsoever relating to the Customs by virtue or colour of any Warrant or Order take up or deliver any the said Goods or suffer them to be carried to any other place than one of the Kings Ware-Houses there to remain as aforesaid And such Goods brought into the Kings Ware-houses shall be forthwith viewed in the presence of two or more principal Officers of that Port whereof the Collector Customer or Customers Deputy to be one and the marks and numbers of each Vessel or Package and the quality and quantity of the said Goods and the time when brought in and of their delivery out of the said Ware-houses shall by special direction of the Commissioners or other Chief Officers of the Customs be registred in a Book to be kept for that purpose and for entry of Claims which examination shall be repeated and entred as aforesaid after condemnation at the delivery of them out to be destroyed and compared with the first Entry to prevent Fraud or Imbezilment and if any such be found the same to be entred and subscribed in the said Book by the principal Officer of the Port not having charge of the Ware-house and Copies of the Entries Examinations and Claims and a true Certificate of the deduction of the said Goods shall be transmitted to the Commissioners of the Customs with monthly Abstracts of the said Ports of which a distinct account shall be kept by the Officers of the Seizures in the Port of London IV. Such Goods shall not be delivered out of any the said Ware-houses till a Judgment or Condemnation have passed upon them otherwise than to be produced at a Trial to be had touching the unlawful importing the same or for the recovery of any Penalty incurred thereby V. If any Person not being a known Merchant Vintner or Shop-keeper shall after the first day of September 1689. sell or expose to sale any of the Commodities hereby prohibited they shall over and above the Penalties aforesaid suffer twelve months Imprisonment VI. Vessels with all their Guns and Furniture in which any such Commodities shall after the said 24th day of August be imported and every Bark Lighter or other Vessel out of which they shall be put on Shore shall be forfeited and the Master or other Person taking care of such Vessel for the Voyage or out of which any of the said Commodities shall be unshipt into any Hoy c. to be put on Shore shall forfeit 500 l. and also being apprehended by a Justice of Peace's Warrant and the Fact proved before one or more Justices by the Oath of two Witnesses shall be committed to the next Gaol for twelve months and Seamen Watermen Carmen and other Persons assisting in the landing or conveying any of the said Commodities by Land or Water shall upon examination and proof as aforesaid be subject to like Imprisonment or be publickly whipt at the Justices discretion and the Carts Teams Carriages Horses and Oxen made use of in such Carriages or Conveyance may be seiz'd and stay'd and upon proof before Justice of Peace by the Oaths of two Witnesses that they were made use of in moving or conveying any Goods hereby prohibited to be imported they shall be forfeited the one half to the use of the Poor of the Parish the other to his use that shall seize the same and if the Master or other Person belonging to any Vessel laden or part laden with any the said Commodities shall after the said 24th day of August unship or wittingly suffer to be unshipt any the said prohibited Goods either at Sea or in any Harbor Creek or Bay of the Kingdoms aforesaid he shall forfeit 500 l. and suffer Imprisonment as aforesaid VII No Brandy Aqua-vita Spirits or distilled Waters of any place whatsoever shall after the said 24th of August be imported in England or Ireland or any the said Islands on pain to forfeit the fame and the Ship or Vessel in which it shall be imported VIII The values and prices of the said Goods shall be reckoned as followeth viz. A Tun of Wines 30 l. a Tun of Brandy 40 l. and so proportionably Other Commodities aforesaid that are valued in the Book of Rates shall be esteemed according to their value there and the Prices of Commodities not rated there shall be determin'd by the Jury that shall try the cause or shall be empannelled to enquire whether the Goods were of the Product or Manufacture of the French Kings Dominions and in case of Condemnation by default the value to be determin'd by a Jury return'd before the Mayor or Bailiff of the City or Town Corporate or before the next Justice of Peace where the Goods shall be brought IX Persons prosecuting shall be rewarded with one third part of the value of the Goods prosecuted to condemnation and destruction to be Owners X. And the residue of the Forfeitures and Penalties before mentioned and not before disposed of shall be divided into three parts two thirds to their Majesties and one third to such as shall seize or sue for the same the Charge of such Prosecution to be born by their Majesties and issued by the Receiver General of the Customs by Warrant from the Commissioners XI No Foreigner or other Person shall be admitted to claim any of the said Goods till security given to the satisfaction of the Collector to answer to such Penalties as shall be incurred by him as the Importer or which the Owner Importer or Possessor thereof is shall or may be liable to by this Act. XII If any Person belonging to the Customs shall connive at the Importation of any the said Commodities he shall not only forfeit 500 l. to be recovered as aforesaid but be made incapable of any Office or Imployment under their Majesties and forfeit the Penalties of their Bonds for true performance of their Trust XIII Any Persons by Writ of Assistance under the Seal of the Exchequer may take a Constable or other publick Officer and in the day-time enter into any House Shop Cellar Ware-house c. and in case of resistance may break open Doors Trunks or other Package to seize and bring to their Majesties Ware-house any of the said Commodities XIV The Attorny General and other Persons seizing and prosecuting as aforesaid may use such method and course of proceeding as may be used about the seizing trying and prosecuting any Goods or Commodities for non-payment of Customs or other Duties or any Persons for offending against the Laws relating to Customs and Persons prosecuted for any thing done about the putting
Person of the Age of sixteen years or upwards and being now withing this Realm who hath not taken the Oaths mentioned and upon Summons under the Hand and Seal of any two or more of the said Commissioners appointed by the first above-mentioned Act shall refuse to take the said Oaths at the time appointed in such Warrant or shall neglect to appear at such times before the Commissioners in order to take the said Oaths shall doubly be assessed the Rates above-mentioned XXVI Gentlemen to be taxed by a former Act and not paying the Penalty Every Gentleman or so reputed or owning or writing himself such or being above that Quality who by virtue of an Act made in the third year of their Majesties Reign Entituled An Act for raising Mony by a Poll payable quarterly for one year for carrying on a vigorous War against France did pay or ought to have paid double the Sums charged by the said Act or were or ought to have been returned into the Exchequer for non-payment thereof who shall not voluntarily appear before the said Commissioners or any two or more of them within ten days after the first Meeting of the said Commissioners and take the said Oaths appointed by the said Act made the first year of their Majesties Reign shall be doubly assessed as above XXVII Quakers to subscribe the Declaration Provided nevertheless that whereas certain Persons called Quakers and now known to be such do scruple the taking of any Oath It shall be sufficient for every such Person to subscribe the Declaration of Fidelity contained in an Act of Parliament held in the first year of their Majesties Reign Entituled An Act for exempting their Majesties Protestant Subjects dissenting from the Church of England from the Penalties of certain Laws and every Person so doing shall not be chargeable with any of the double Rates aforesaid XXVIII Lands to be above 20 s per ann No Person shall be liable to the Pound-rate imposed by this Act upon Lands Tenements or Hereditaments whose Lands Tenements or Hereditaments are not of the yearly value of 20 s. in the whole XXIX Master of the Rolls c. where to be charged The Master of the Rolls Masters in Chancery Six Clerks Clerks of the Petty Bag Examiners Registers Clerks of the Inrolment Clerks of the Affidavits and Subpoena Office or any other the Officers of the High-Court of Chancery that execute their Offices in the Liberty of the Rolls are to be assessed there and not elsewhere XXX Penalty of Collectors detaining Mony If any Collector shall keep in his Hands any part of the Mony by him collected for any longer time than by this Act directed or pay any part thereof to any other Person than the Head-Collector or Receiver-General of such place every such Collector shall forfeit 10 l. And if any Head-Collector shall detain in his Hands or pay any Mony to any other than the Receiver-General of such Place every such Head-Collector shall forfeit 40 l. And if any Receiver-General or his Deputy shall pay such Monies or any part thereof paid to him by this Act to any Person whatsoever other than the Receipt of their Majesties Exchequer within the times limited by this Act such Receiver General or his Deputy shall forfeit the Sum of 1000 l. XXXI Changing Abode after Assessment If after Assessments on personal Estates according to this Act any Person shall remove to any place where such Person was not taxed the Commissioners acting within such place are hereby impowred to summon such Person before them and unless he or she shall produce a Certificate made according to the Directions of this Act whereby it may appear that he or she have paid all their precedent quarterly Payments the said Commissioners are hereby required to cause such Persons to be assessed for such quarterly Payments as remain unassessed to be assessed and paid according to the true intent of this Act. XXXII The King may borrow upon this Act at 7 l. per Cent. It shall and may be lawful for any Person Native or Foreigner Bodies Politick or Corporate to lend to their Majesties upon the security of this Act any Sums of Mony and to receive for the forbearance thereof any Sum not exceeding 7 l. per Cent. for one whole year and that no Mony so lent shall be rated by virtue of this Act. XXXIII No Rector or Vicar chargeable except above 30 l. per Ann. No Rector or Vicar who has the Cure of Souls and actually resides upon his Rectory or Vicaridge upon the account of such his Rectory and Vicaridge only shall be charged by this Act unless his Rectory or Vicaridge does really and truly exceed the value of 30 l. per annum or unless he hath more than one Rectory or Vicaridge Additional Supply for 118506 l. 5 s. 10 d. I. Stat. 5 W. M. Sess 5. cap. 5. That it shall and may be lawful for any Persons Natives or Foreigners to contribute towards the advancing the Sum of 118506 l. 5 s. 10 d. to make up the whole Sum of 1000000 l. granted to their Majesties by an Act made this present Parliament intended to be advanced by paying into their Majesties Exchequer at any time before the first day of May 1694. any Sum or Sums of Mony not exceeding in the whole the Sum of 118506 l. 5 s. 10 d. as followeth viz. That every Person out of the Rates and Duties of Excise granted by the said Act of 1000000 l. 14 l. per Cent. for own Life or Nominees shall have and receive for every Sum of 100 l. by them respectively advanced and paid a quarterly Annuity Rent or Payment of 14 l. and proportionably for a greater Sum for and during the life of such Person so advancing or paying the same or during any other life to be nominated by the Person advancing or paying any such Sum as aforesaid Within what time to be nominated the same to be nominated within six days after payment of such Sum which yearly Annuities Rents or Payments shall commence from the 24th of June next ensuing and shall be paid and payable at the four most usual Feasts of the year viz. The Annuntiation of the Blessed Virgin Mary the Nativity of St. John Baptist the Feast of St. Michael the Archangel and the Feast of the Birth of our Lord Christ and every Person on payment of such Sum or Sums as aforesaid Tallies to be given on receipt of the Monies and Orders thereon which may be transferred or assigned and not to be revoked shall immediately have one or more Tally or Tallies importing the receipt of the Consideration Mony and Orders for the Payment of the said Annuities bearing the same date with the Tally the said Tallies to be levied and the said Orders to be signed in the same manner as in the said Act is mentioned touching Tallies and Orders to be given to the Contributors for
Annuities upon the said Act and the said Orders not to be determinable revocable or countermandable as touching the afore-mentioned Orders in the said Act is enacted which said Orders shall be assignable and transferrable in such and the same manmer as is mentioned in the said Act touching Orders given to the Contributors in the said Act mentioned and all the Rates and Duties by the said Act granted over and beside so much as shall bear proportion at the Rates in the said Act mentioned to the whole Sum of 881493 l. 14 s. 2 d. already advanced by the Contributors upon the said Act are and shall be appropriated and applied and are hereby appropriated to and for the payment of the said Annuities yearly Rents or Sums after the rate of 14 l. per Cent. per Annum for every 100 l. to be advanced as aforesaid according to the true intent and meaning of this Act and shall not be diverted or divertible to any other use intent or purpose whatsoever under the like Penalties Forfeitures and Disabilities Penalty for misapplying the Monies given by this Act. Books and Registers to be kept in respect to all and every the Officers in the said Act mentioned as are in the said Act appointed in case of diverting or misapplying any part of the Monies which ought to be paid to the Contributors upon the said Act. And the said Officers are hereby required to keep Books and Registers and make Entries of the Names of all Persons who shall advance any Monies before the said first of May and of the several Sums so advanced and the times of paying in the same respectively and the Names of such Persons for whose Lives the several Annuities or yearly Payments are to be payable without Fee or Reward as in the said Act mentioned And every Person who shall advance or pay any such Sum as asoresaid Interest of 10 l. per Cent. from 1st of May to the 24th of June before the first of May as aforesaid shall receive out of the Mony granted by the said Act for all Mony so advanced by him and paid from the respective days of payment unto the 24th of June as aforesaid Interest at the rate of 10 l. per Cent. per Annum II. Mony payable to any Person by this Act to be free from Duties Surplus to be to the use of their Majesties Any Monies payable to any Person or Persons by virtue of this Act shall not be chargeable with any Rates Duties or Impositions whatsoever and in case there shall be any Surplus or Remainder of the Monies arising by the said Rates and Duties of Excise at the end of any year during the term of ninety and nine years granted therein by the said former Act after making all the Payments which by this or the said former Act are appointed to be paid within the same year or reserving Mony for the same such Surplus or Remainder shall be to the use of their Majesties their Heirs and Successors III. Upon demand of their shares a Certificate of the Life of the Nominee shall be produced Every Contributor upon this or the former Act his or her Executors Administrators or Assigns upon their demanding any half-yearly or quarterly Payment of their respective shares of either of the said Funds unless the Nominee appear in Person at the said Receipt shall produce a Certificate of the Life of his her or their respective Nominee signed by the Minister and Church-wardens of the Parish where such Nominee shall be then living as by the said Act is appointed or otherwise it shall and may be lawful to and for every Contributor his or her Executors Administrators or Assigns at his her or their Election to make Oath of the truth of his her or their respective Nominees Life on the day when the said Payments shall become due before any one or more Justices of the Peace of the respective County Riding City Town or Place wherein such Person at the time of the making the said Oath shall reside and the said Justice or Justices shall make a Certificate thereof without Fee the which shall be filed in the said Office or Receipt of Exchequer And if any Person shall be guilty of a false Oath Penalty of forging a Certificate or forging any Certificate touching the Premises and be thereof lawfully convicted he shall incur the Pains and Penalties to be inflicted upon Persons who commit wilful Perjury or Forgery And in case any Nominee shall at the time of such demand be resident in Scotland or beyond the Seas and any one or more of the Barons of the Exchequer for the time being shall certifie that upon proof to him or them made which proof is to be taken in a Summary way it doth seem probable to him or them that the said Nominee is living the said Certificate being filed as aforesaid shall be a sufficient Warrant for making the said quarterly Payment to the respective Contributors their Executors Administrators or Assigns And if any Person shall receive one or more quarterly Payments upon his her or their Annuity or Annuities for any time beyond the death of his her or their Nominee when the same ought to cease such Person shall forfeit treble the value of the Monies so received IV. And whereas several Persons who did contribute or pay several of the Sums of Mony which have been contributed upon the said recited Act for Shares Dividends Annuities or other Benefits in the said Act mentioned as well upon the benefit of Survivorship as upon the yearly Annuities of 14 l. per Cent. did not name to the Auditor of the Receipt or Clerk of the Pells in the Receipt of the Exchequer within the respective times by the said Act appointed the respective Lives during which such Dividends Shares Annuities or other Benefits respectively were to continue It is hereby enacted Benefit of Survivorship within what time the Lives to be named That if such Persons shall at any time before the first of March next nominate to the Auditor of the Receipt of Clerk of the Pells in the Exchequer the respective Lives their own or others during which such Dividends Shares Annuities or other Benefits should continue respectively that then his her or their Nominees shall be entred in the Books kept in the Receipt for the Nominees And every such Contributor his or her Executors Administrators and Assigns shall have receive and enjoy such and the like Dividends Shares and Annuities and other Benefits in respect of the Monies so contributed as he or she might have had received and enjoyed if the respective Lives for the same had been named within the respective times by the said Act prescribed V. The Surplus to their Majesties not to be charged with any Gift c. Provided that the Surplus or Remainder of the Monies arising by the said Rates and Duties appointed by the said Act be to the use of their Majesties their
repay the value received for the same XXXVI Taking other Fees than by this Act forfeiture of Office If the Officers of the Exchequer shall take any other Fee or Reward than by this Act appointed for executing their respective Trusts and Offices they shall forfeit their Office and pay treble Damages with Costs of Suit to any Adventurer that will sue for the same without Essoign Protection or Priviledge of Parliament c. XXXVII Officer not liable though Ticket be forged unless he knew it If any Officer of the Transfer Office shall pass any Ticket for payment or any Officer of the Exchequer shall make any payment of any Shares of the said Fonds upon such Tickets as are above directed such Officer shall not incur any Penalty or be liable to any Action of the Adventurers though such Ticket be forged except he knew it to be so XXXVIII Mony lent to be free from Taxes Mony lent by or payable to any Persons by virtue of this Act shall not be chargeable with any Rates Duties or Impositions whatsoever XXXIX And to be imployed as the Act directs All Grants or Dispositions of Mony arising by this Act hereafter to be made by their Majesties to any other Person or in any other manner or for any longer Term or Interest than by this Act appointed shall hereby be made null XL. A distinct Office in the Exchequer for payment of Annuities There shall be in the said receipt of the Exchequer a distinct Office for paying the Annuities the said Office shall continue till all the Payments to grow due by this Act during the said Term of sixteen years shall be satisfied And an Officer or Officers shall be appointed hereunto by the Commissioners or the Treasurer of the Exchequer Officers to give security who shall take security of the Officers for the due paying and accounting the Monies they shall receive and for the faithful performance of their Office And the Monies which shall be brought into the Receipt of the Exchequer shall by the Commissioners of the Treasury or the Under-Treasurer of the Exchequer without any farther or other Warrant and such proportions from time to time Monies how to be issued Officers to be liable to account and be inspected as shall be necessary and sufficient to answer the respective Payments which shall grow due be issued or paid over from time to time to the Officers by way of Imprest and upon Account to and for the payment of the said Annuities by this Act appointed And such particular Officers shall be liable and subject to such Inspection Examination Comptrol and Audit and to such Rules as the Commissioners of the Treasury or the Treasurer and Under-Treasurer of the Exchequer shall think fit XLI All Officers to observe the Commissioners directions The Managers Directors Commissioner and Officer of the Transfer Office Receivers and the particular Officer in the Exchequer and all the Clerks Ministers and Servants shall for the better execution of their Trusts observe and perform such Rules Methods and Orders as they shall from time to time receive from the Commissioners of the Treasury c. so as such Rules Methods and Orders be conducible to the ends and purposes in this Act. XLII The King enabled to borrow Mony upon this Act. If the whole Sum of 1000000 l. be not paid into the Exchequer upon this Act before the 24th of June 1694. then it shall be lawful for their Majesties by way of Loan to borrow so much as to make it up to be paid with Interest at 8 l. per Cent. out of the Monies after to be brought in by this Act And if the Monies shall not all come in then out of the next Supply granted by Parliament How the same to be repaid and if no such Supply shall be before the 2d of February 1694. then to be paid out of the Treasury If the 1000000 l. shall not be advanced then the Overplus of the Fond shall be disposed as hereafter shall be directed by Act of Parliament XLIII When the Receivers of the Salt Mony are to deliver in their Accompts The Receivers of the Salt Duty shall between the 25th of March 1695. and the 29th of September following and so yearly during the continuance of this Act deliver in their Accounts to the Auditors of the Imprest who shall examine them upon Oath what Sum was raised and what part paid into the Exchequer or by virtue of any Warrant of Privy Seal or Warrant of the Commissioners of the Treasury and to whom and for what Service and such Account so taken by the said Auditor to be declared before the Lord Treasurer or Lords Commissioners of the Treasury and Chancellor of the Exchequer XLIV No Member of the House of Commons to be concerned in the farming or managing those Duties except c. No Member of the House of Commons shall directly or indirectly be concerned in the farming collecting or managing any Duties granted by this Act or that shall be granted by any other Act except the Commissioners of the Treasury the Officers of the Customs and Excise and those appointed Commissioners for the Act of 4 s. in the Pound for one year as to their executing only the Authority of the said Act by which they are appointed Commissioners And also excepting Thomas Neale Esquire The Act upon Tunnage I. Stat. 5 6 W. M. Sess 5. cap. 14. It is enacted That for the Term of four Years commencing from the first day of June 1694. Duties upon Tunnage from the 1st of June 1694. there shall be throughout England Wales and the Town of Berwick levied and paid into and for the use of their Majesties their Heirs and Successors upon the Tunnage of all Ships and Vessels whereon during that time there shall be imported any Goods or Merchandize from the Places in the Act after mentioned or shall be carried Coast-wise from Port to Port within England Wales or the Town of Berwick these Duties and Impositions that is to say For every Tun of the Burthen or Contents of any Ship or Vessel importing Goods oâ— Merchandizes from the East-Indies or any Ports Southwards or Eastward of Cabo bona Speranza The several Rates the Sum of 30 s. From any Ports or Places in Italy or Turky 15 s. From any Ports or Places in Portugal or Spain 10 s. From any the Plantation Lands or Places in the West-Indies 10 s. From Holland or any the United Provinces Netherlands or Flanders 3 s. From Norway Hamborough or the Baltick Sea Enstland Gountries or any other Ports or Places North of Holland 5 s. From Ireland or Scotland 2 s. From any Port or Place in the Mediterranean Sea not otherwise charged in this Act 15 s. From the Ports or Coasts of Guinea or Africa without the Streights 20 s. From Hudsons Bay or any Place within the Limits of that Companies Charter 20 s. From the
such Penalties and Forfeitures as in the Acts made in the 12th year of King Charles II. and the 15th of the same King are mentioned or by another Law in force relating to the said Revenue of Excise and the Clauses in the said Acts to be of force for and concerning the Duties hereby granted as if particularly recited in the Body of this Act. IX The Commissioners of the Excise Monies arising by these Duties to be kept apart and the Commissioners and other Officers of the Customs at the Head-Office in London shall separate and keep apart all the Monies arising by these Duties as the same shall from time to time arise or be paid into the said Office of Excise or unto the Receiver-General of the Customs and the Comptroller of the Excise and of the Customs or their respective Deputies shall keep a distinct account in Books fairly written of all those Rates and Duties to which all Persons shall have free access at all reasonable times gratis Holidays no pay-days And the Commissioners of the Excise and Customs are to pay weekly upon every Week if it be not a Holiday and then the next day after that is not a Holiday Monies how to be paid these Monies into the Receipt of the Exchequer distinct and apart from other Monies they shall receive and in the Office of the Auditor of the Receipt one Book shall be kept in which all the said Weekly Monies shall be entred apart Commissioners neglecting or misapplying their Forfeiture And if the Commissioners shall refuse or neglect to pay into the Exchequer all or any of the said Weekly Sums in such manner as hereby required or shall divert or misapply any part of the same or if such Comptroller shall neglect his Duty in keeping such Accounts then he or they shall forfeit their respective Places and be incapable of any Place of Trust or Office whatsoever and such Commissioner shall be liable to pay the full value of any Sum diverted or misapplied to any Person that shall sue for the same in any of their Majesties Courts of Record at Westminster Necessary Charges to be deducted Their Majesties out of the Duties may allow Salaries and incident Charges as shall be necessary for receiving collecting and managing the same Duties Head-Office to continue in London or within ten miles The Head-Office of Excise now in London shall be continued there for ever or within ten miles thereof And likewise for ever shall be continued there or within the same distance a Comptroller of the Excise the Commissioners of Excise and Comptroller to be appointed by their Majesties their Heirs and Successors X. What shall be the yearly Fond. That yearly and every year reckoning the first year to begin from the 1st of June 1694. the full Sum of 140000 l. out of these Monies by the said Duties of Tunnage and Excise and to be brought into the Receipt of the Exchequer by weekly payments in case the weekly payments shall extend thereunto shall be the whole and intire yearly Fond. In case of deficiency how to be supplied And in case the said weekly payments shall not amount to so much then as far as they will extend shall be part of the yearly Fond for and towards the answering and paying of the Annuities and other Purposes in this Act after mentioned And in case of deficiency by the said Duties of Tunnage and Excise to discharge and satisfie the Annuities and other Benefits and Advantages by this Act appointed or intended to be paid within any one year to be reckoned as aforesaid or if they shall not amount in their weekly payments to so much as 140000 l. within such time then the deficiency shall be made good out of any Treasure or Revenue belonging to their Majesties their Heirs or Successors not being appropriated to any particular Uses by any Act of Parliament and that to be issued and paid without any farther or other Warrant but to be done by virtue of this Act towards the discharging and paying of the said Annuities and Benefits as together with the Monies brought into the said Receipt for the Duties hereby granted shall compleatly pay off the same within the year respectively grown due And the yearly Sum of 140000 l. arising by and out of the said Impositions and Duties hereby granted shall be kept separate and apart in the Receipt of the Exchequer to be paid from time to time unto such Person or Persons and in such manner proportion and form as is herein after directed XI Their Majesties to appoint Commissioners to take Subscriptions Their Majesties by Commission under the Great Seal of England may authorize and appoint any number of Persons to take and receive all such voluntary Subscriptions as shall be made on or before the first day of August 1694. by any Person or Persons Natives or Foreigners Bodies Politick or Corporate for and towards the raising and paying into the Receipt of the Exchequer the Sum of 1200000 l. part of the Sum of 1500000 l. And that the yearly Sum of 100000 l. part of the said yearly Sum of 140000 l. rising by the said Duties and Impositions shall be applied issued and directed and is hereby appropriated to the use of such Persons and Bodies Politick as shall make such voluntary Subscriptions and Payments their Heirs Successors or Assigns in the proportion hereafter mentioned that is to say The Monies how to be divided and proportioned That each weekly or other payment rising out of the Duties and Impositions by this Act granted shall by the Auditor of the Receipt of Exchequer from time to time as the same shall be paid in be separated and divided into five seventh parts and two seventh parts which is according to the proportion of the said yearly Sum of 100000 l. to the said yearly Sum of 140000 l. which five seventh parts of the said several payments arising by the Duties of this Act and so set apart are appropriated towards the payment of the said yearly Sum of 100000 l. and shall from time to time be issued and paid to the uses of the Subscribers and Contributors towards the raising and paying into the Receipt of Exchequer the Sum of 1200000 l. XII The 200000 l. and 100000 l. to be assigned or transferred Their Majesties by Letters Patents under the Great Seal may limit direct and appoint in what manner and proportions and under what Rules and Directions the said Sum of 200000 l. and the said yearly Sum of 100000 l. and every or any part or proportion thereof may be assignable or transferrable assigned or transferred to such Person or Persons only as shall freely and voluntarily accept of the same and not otherwise The Contributors to be incorporated and to incorporate all and every such Subscribers and Contributors their Heirs Successors and Assigns to be one Body Corporate and Politick by the Name of Governor and
Courts of Equity shall be written or ingrossed 6 d. XV. Licenses Ecclesiastical For every Skin c. on which any Institution or Licence under Seal of any Archbishop Bishop Chancellor or other Ordinary or any Ecclesiastical Court shall be written or engrossed 5 s. XVI Writs of Error c. For every Skin c. on which any Writs of Error Certioraries Habeas Corpus's or Appeals except to the Delegates shall be written or ingrossed 5 s. XVII Significavit pro Corp. c. For every Skin c. on which any Significavit pro Corporis deliberatione shall be written or ingrossed 5 s. XVIII Sentences c. in the Admiralty c. For every Skin c. on which any Sentence in the Court of the Lord High Admiral or Cinque-Ports exercising Admiralty Jurisdiction Attachments out of the said Court of Admiralty or any Relaxation of any such Attachment shall be ingrossed or written 5 s. XIX Licenses of Marriage c. For every Skin c. on which any Licence or Certificates of Marriage or Letters of Mart shall be ingrossed or written 5 s. XX. Probate of Wills c. For every Skin c. on which any Probate of Wills or Letters of Administration for any Estate above 20 l. value shall be written or ingrossed 5 s. XXI Recognizances Statutes For every Skin c. on which any Recognizance Statute-Staple or Merchant shall be ingrossed or written or entred of Record in any Court or Office 5 s. XXII Nisi prius Posteas For every Skin c. on which any Record of Nisi Prius or Postea shall be ingrossed or written 2 s. 6 d. XXIII Judgments For every Skin c. on which are ingrossed or written any Judgment which shall be signed by any Member of the Office or Prothonotaries their Deputies Secondaries or Clerks or others belonging to any the Courts of Westminster who have Power or usually do or shall sign Judgments 2 s. 6 d. XXIV Commissions Ecclesiastical For every Skin c. on which any Commission out of any Ecclesiastical Court not herein otherwise particularly charged shall be written or ingrossed 2 s. 6 d. XXV Warrants Decrees in Admiralty or Cinque-Ports For every Skin c. on which are ingrossed or written any Warrant Monition or personal Decree in any Courrt of Admiralty or Cinque-Ports any beneficial Warrant or Order under their Majesties Sign Manual except Warrant or Orders for the Navy Arms and Ordnance 2 s. 6 d. XXVI Special Bail For every Piece c. on which are ingrossed or written any Special Bail in any of the Courts at Westminster or before a Judge which shall be filed in the Court and also Appearances thereof 1 s. XXVII Bills Answers c. For every Skin c. on which shall be ingrossed or written any Bill Answer Replication Rejoinder Interrogatories Depositions taken by Commission or any other Pleadings whatsoever in the Chancery Exchequer Dutchy and County Palatine Courts or other Courts of Equity 1 s. XXVIII Admission into Corporations c. For every Skin c. on which any Admission into a Corporation or Company Matriculation in either University Admission into any of the Inns of Court or Chancery shall be written or ingrossed 1 s. XXIX Affidavits For every Piece c. on which any Affidavit shall be ingrossed or written except for burying in Woollen and such Affidavits as shall be taken before the Officers of the Customs or any Justice of Peace or any Commissioner appointed or to be appointed by any Act of Parliament for the assessing and levying any Duties or Aids granted or to be granted to their Majesties which Affidavits shall be taken by the said Persons by virtue of their Authorities respectively 6 d. XXX Copies of Affidavits For every Piece c. on which are ingrossed or written Copies of Affidavits herein charged that shall be read or filed in any Court 6 d. XXXI Indentures Leases c. For every Skin c. on which are ingrossed or written any Indenture Lease or Deed Poll not hereby otherwise charged 6 d. XXXII Original Writs For every Piece c. on which any Original Writ except such on which a Capias issues Subpoena Bill of Middlesex Latitat Writ of Capias Quo minus Dedimus Potestatem to take Answers examine Witnesses or appoint Guardians or any other Writ Process or Mandate that shall issue out or pass under the Seals in any Court at Westminster Quarter Sessions in Wales Counties Palatine or any other Court whatsoever holding Plea where the Debt or Damage amounts to 40 s. or above or the demand is of the value shall be ingrossed or written 6 d. XXXIII Entry of Actions in Inferior Courts For every Piece c. on which any entry of any Action in the Mayors or Sheriffs Courts London and in all other Courts or Corporations out of which no Writs Process or Mandate issue holding Plea for Debts or Damages amounting to 40 s. or above shall be ingrossed or written 6 d. XXXIV Common Bail Appearance For every Piece c. on which are ingrossed or written any Common Bail to be filed in any Court and any Appearance that shall be made upon such Bail 6 d. which Appearance or Common Bail the Defendant shall cause to be entred or filed within eight days after the Return of the Process on which the Defendant was to be arrested on Penalty of 5 l. to be paid to the Plaintiff for which the Court shall immedately award Judgment and the Plaintiff may take out Execution XXXV Rule of Court For every Piece c. on which any Rule or Order made in any of the Courts at Westminster either Courts of Law or Equity shall be ingrossed or written 6 d. XXXVI Copies of Rules of Court and of Records For every Piece c. on which any Copy of such Rules and Orders entred or the Copies of any other Records or Proceedings in any of the Courts at Westminster not hereby otherwise charged shall be ingrossed or written 6 d. XXXVII Citations Monitions c. For every Skin c. on which any Citation or Monition made in any Ecclesiastical Court any Libel or Allegation Deposition or Signal Decree or any Inventory exhibited in any Ecclesiastical Court Courts of Admiralty or Cinque-Ports or Copies of them respectively shall be ingrossed or written 6 d. XXXVIII Charter-parties Policies c. For every Skin c. on which any Charter-party Policy of Assurance Pass-port Bond Release Contract or other Obligatory Instrument any Protest Procuration Letter of Attorny or any other Notarial Act whatsoever shall be ingrossed or written 6 d. XXXIX Declarations Pleas c. For every Skin c. on which any Declaration Plea Replication Rejoinder Demurrer or other Pleadings whatsoever in any Court of Law shall be ingrossed or written 1 d. XL. Copies thereof For every Skin c.
 Copies of Inventories in Courts of Admiralty Cinque Ports and Ecclesiastical Courts   Affidavits and Copies Indentures Leases Deed Polls 6 d. For each Skin Sheet or piece of Parchment or Paper Writs Original Latitats Capias Subpoena Bill of Middlesex Quominus Ded. Potestatem and other Writs   Processes and Mandates in all Courts where Debt is above 40 s.   Actions in London and other Corporations above 40 s.   Charter Parties Pollicies of Assurance Pasports Bonds Releases Contracts Obligatory Instruments Protests Procurations Letters of Attorny or other Notarial Acts.  Copies of Declarations Pleas Replications Rejoinders Demurrers and other Pleadings in all Courts of Law and for Copies thereof 1 d. For each Skin Sheet or piece of Parchment or Paper Copies of Depositions Bills Answers Pleas Demurrers Replications Rejoinders Interrogatories and other Proceedings in any Court of Equity Copies of Wills  Things Excepted Draughts of Depositions taken by Commissioners before they are ingrossed Seamens and Souldiers Wills and Administrations Paupers Bills of Exchange Accounts Bills of Parcels Bills of Fees Bills or Notes not sealed for Payment of Mony at sight or on demand or at the end of certain days of payment Trade I. Stat. 5 W. M. Sess 5. cap. 2. An Act for repealing such parts of several former Acts as prevent or prohibit the Importation of Foreign Brandy Aqua-vitae and other Spirits and Bacon except from France I. Importation of fine Thrown Silk Stat. 5 W. M. Sess 5. cap. 3. It shall be lawful to or for any Person or Persons residing within their Majesties Dominions to import within this Kingdom from any Port whatsoever excepting the Ports of France during the present War with France and three Months after fine Thrown-Silk of the growth or production of Italy Sicily or Naples II. Provided that this Act nor any thing herein contained What sorts to be imported shall extend to give liberty to bring over Land and import any Italian Thrown Silk courser than a sort thereof known and distinguished by the name of Third Bolonia nor any Sicilian Thrown Silk courser than a sort thereof known and distinguished by the name of Second Orsay nor any sorts of Silks commonly called Frams of the growth of Italy Sicily or Naples nor any other Thrown Silk of the growth or production of Turky Persia East-India or China The penalty under the Penalty and Forfeiture of all such Thrown Silk as shall be brought over land and imported contrary to the intent of this Act. III. And that all such fine Italian To be brought to the Custom-house Sicilian and Naples Thrown Silks as are allowed to be imported by this Act wheresoever landed shall be brought to their Majesties Custom-house London to the intent that no other sort may be imported over-land than those only allowed by this Act under the Penalties before-mentioned any thing to the contrary hereof notwithstanding I. Stat. 5 6 W. M. Sess 5. cap. 3. Whereas by an Act made in the 5th year of Q. Elizabeth Entituled An Act containing divers Orders for Artificers Labourers Servants in Husbandry and Apprentices It is enacted in these words following Provided always and be it farther enacted by the Authority aforesaid That no Person or Persons using or exercising the Art or Mystery of a Woollen Cloath-Weaver other than such as be inhabiting within the Counties of Cumberland Westmorland Lancaster and Wales weaving Frizes Cottons or Houswifes Cloath only making and weaving Woollen-Cloath commonly sold or to be sold by any Cloathman or Clothier shall take and have any Apprentice or shall teach or in any-wise instruct any Person or Persons in the Science Art or Occupation of Weaving aforesaid in any Village Town or Place Cities Towns-Corporate and Market-Towns only excepted unless such Person be his Son or else that the Father or Mother of such Apprentice or Servant shall at the time of the taking of such Person or Persous to be an Apprentice or Servant or to be instructed have Lands or Tenements or other Hereditaments to the clear yearly value of 3 l. at the least of an Estate of Inheritance or Freehold to be certified under the Hands and Seals of three Justices of the Peace of the Shire or Shires where the said Lands Tenements or other Hereditaments do or shall lie The effect of the Indenture to be registred within three months in the Parish where such Master shall dwell and to pay for such registring 4 d. upon pain of forfeiture of 20 s. for every month that Person shall otherwise take any Apprentice or set any such Person on Work contrary to the meaning of this Article II. St. 5 Eliz. concerning Apprentices in Woollen Manufafacture repealed Now forasmuch as such part of the said Act before recited hath been found prejudicial to the Clothing-Trade It is hereby enacted That so much of the said Act as is before recited is hereby declared to be repeald and made void as if the same had never been made I. Salt-petre to be brought in for one year Stat. 5 6 W. M. Sess 5. cap. 10. It shall be lawful for any of their Majesties Subjects to import and bring Salt-petre into this Kingdom from any Place or Country now in Amity with their Majesties for the space of one year to be computed from and after the 25th day of March 1694. II. In what Ships Provided that such Salt-petre be brought in only in such Ships or Vessels as are English built and no other III. At what rate to be sold Provided that no Person importing Salt-petre by virtute of this Act nor any Retailer shall sell any part of the Salt-petre so to be imported at above the price of 70 l. per Tun not exceeding 18 per Cent. Refraction upon the Penalty of 50 l. per Tun. IV. Their Majesties Duty Provided that the Salt-petre which shall be imported by virtue of this Act shall pay to their Majesties the same Duty as if the same were directly imported from the East-Indies V. Salt-petre imported and mingled not to be sold at above 70 l. per Tun. If any Person shall mingle any Salt-petre imported by virtue of this Act with any other Salt-petre and sell the same so mingled at above the rate of 70 l. per Tun or shall by way of Barter or Exchange take or agree to take any other Commodity for Salt-petre imported by virtue of this Act whether by it self or mingled with other Salt-petre in any manner so as to have or receive for the same more than the rate of 70 l. per Tun accounting the Commodity so taken in exchange at the then currant Price That the sale of such Salt-petre so mingled and also such Barter or Exchange shall be construed and taken to be a Sale contrary to this Act. I. Iron Copper c. may be transported except to France during the War Stat. 5 6 W. M. Sess 5. cap. 11. It shall and may be lawful to and for any Person whatsoever Bodies Politick or Corporate to ship and export all and all manner of Iron Copper or Mundick Metal out of this Realm of England Dominion of Wales and Town of Berwick upon Tweed except unto or for the use of the French King or any of his Subjects residing within his Dominions or in to or for any Port or Place within his said Dominions during the present War between their Majesties and the French King paying the Duties and Customs by Law payable for the same II. Excepting Port-Metal Gun-Metal c. Provided this Act shall not extend to the exportation of Port-Metal Gun-Metal or Shruff-Metal or any old Metal or any mixture therewith or any Copper or other Metal than what is made c. of English Ore only FINIS