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A82435	Anno Regni Caroli II. Regis Angliæ, Scotiæ, Franciæ, & Hiberniæ, duodecimo. At the Parliament begun at Westminster, the five and twentieth day of April, an. Dom. 1660 In the twelfth year of the reign of our most gracious soveraign lord Charles, by the grace of God, of England, Scotland, France, and Ireland, King, Defender of the Faith, &c.	England and Wales. Sovereign (1660-1685 : Charles II); England and Wales. Parliament.	1661 (1661)	Wing E1095; Thomason E1075_27	58,399	149

upwards upon the Credit of this Act and before the Tenth day of Ianuary One thousand six hundred and sixty pay the same unto the said Treasurers then every such person and persons so continuing or advancing as aforesaid shall not only do a very acceptable service but shall also receive from the said Treasurers out of the last One hundred and ten thousand pounds which shall be received upon the second payment appointed by this Act his and their principal money with Interest at the rate of Ten pounds per cent per annum from the time of such declaration and advancement respectively any Law Act or Statute to the contrary notwithstanding And the said Treasurers are hereby required to make payment accordingly and not to receive any more money to be advanced as aforesaid then what with the money so to be continued will amount to Eighty thousand pounds And be it further Enacted That the Treasurers by this Act appointed shall receive for them and those to be employed under them in this Service One penny in the pound in such manner as they ought to receive by the Act last before mentioned And be it further enacted That all and every the sums of money which by vertue of this present Act shall be paid to or received by the Treasurers aforesaid shall from time to time be issued out according to such Warrants and Directions onely as they or any three of them shall receive from the Commissioners named in one Act of this present Parliament Entituled An Act for the speedy disbanding of the Army and Garisons of this Kingdom or threé of them who are hereby required and enjoyned at their perils to take care and provide that the moneys so as aforesaid to be issued out be employed onely to the uses intents and purposes hereafter following and to no other use intent or purpose whatsoever that is to say Principally and in the first place for and towards the total disbanding of the present Army and Garrisons until that work be fully perfected and compleated according to such Rules and Instructions as touching the disbanding of the Army in the said Act last mentioned are contained And after the Army shall be wholly disbanded then the residue of the moneys to be raised by vertue of this present Act or due or behinde on any former Act shall be employed for and towards the paying off of the Fleét and Navy according to such Rules Orders and Instructions as touching the payment of the Navy are herein after-mentioned and not otherwise And be it further enacted That an accompt of all the moneys by vertue of this Act to be received shall be given by the said Treasurers to this or any other succeéding Parliament which shall require the same or to such person or persons as by this or any other succeéding Parliament shall be thereunto appointed Provided always and it is hereby declared That nō Mannors Lands Tenements and Hereditaments which were formerly assessed and taxed for and towards former Assessments and Land-Taxes and are now in the possession or holding of His Majesty or of the Queéns Highness or of any Ecclesiastical person or persons or His Her or their Farmers and Tenants shall be exempted from the payment of the several sums of mony in this Act comprized but that the said Mannors Lands Tenements and Hereditaments shall be rated assessed and taxed for and towards the said several sums of money in this Act comprised in such manner and form as they were of late rated taxed and assessed for and towards the said former Land-Rates any Law Statute or Custom to the contrary thereof in any wise notwithstanding Provided also that nothing herein contained shall be drawn into example to the prejudice of the ancient Rights belonging to the Peers of this Realm And be it declared and enacted by the Authority aforesaid that these persons hereafter named shall be added Commissioners for their several Counties Places and Precincts respectively and shall exercise the same powers as the other Commissioners intended by this Act are authorised and impowered to do That is to say Berks. For the County of Berks Peregrine Hobby Richard Harrison Esqs John Fecciplace of FernehamEsq Samuel Woodcox Borrough of New Windsor For the Borrough of New Windsor Andrew Plumpton Richard Fishburne Gent. Bucks For the County of Bucks William Tirringham Esq Sir T●omas Hampson Baronet Sir Philip Palmer Baronet Anthony Ratcliff Esq Cambridge For the County of Cambridge Sir Thomas Dayrel John Bennet Esq Sir Anthony Cage Levinus Bennet Isle of Ely For the Isle of Ely Roger Jennings Esq Chester For the County of Chester Sir George Warburton Baronet Edward Warren Jeffery Shakerley Henry Leigh Esqs City of Chester For the City and County of the City of Chester The Major for the time being Cornwal For the County of Cornwal Robert Roberts Esq Sir William Tredinham Joseph Tredinham Thomas Penhallow the Knights and Burgesses that serve for the said County and Iames Eirsey Gent. The Major of Lostwithel for the time being Iohn Mollesworth Esq William Williams of Trenythen Cumberland For the County of Cumberland Mr. Anthony Bouch Mr. Richard Uriell Mr. Thomas Croswhat Mr. Robert Webster Devon For the County of Devon Nicholas DaviesDoctor of Physick William Jennens Gent. Edmond Tremayne William Putt John Kellond William Bogan George Howard Iohn Kelly Iames Rodd Esquires Walter Jago Francis Drew Esq William Walrond Esq John Blagdon Gent. Iohn Hamm Gent. Henry Newte York For the West-Riding in the County of York Welbury Norton Rob●rt Wivell Esquires Richard Roundhil Gent. William Hamond Walte● Hawksworth Esquires Cuthbert Wade Iohn Preston Gent. Arthur Ingram Esq Edward Atkinson William Witham Gent. Samuel SunderlandEsq Thomas Ward Gent. Sir William Ingram Knight Sir John Goodrick Baronet Sir Tho. Wentworth Sir Edward Rodes Knights Godfrey Copley of Sprotsbrough John Clayton Ioshua Horton Thomas Stringer Esqs The Alderman of L●edes for the time being York Northriding For the Northriding in the County of York Sir William Caley Arthur Caley Esq William Wivell Esq Sir Tho. Gower Baronet Thomas VVorsley Charles Tankred Esqs Sir William Francklyn Baronet the Bailiffs of Scarboroughfor the time being Tristram Fish Robert Belt Esq Thoms Robinson Thomas Scudamore Esq York City For the City and County of the City of York all the Aldermen of the City of York Kingston upon Hull For the Town of Hull Mr. George Crowle Essex For the County of Essex Mr. Edward Glascock Mr. M●les Hubbert Mr. Iohn Smart Capt. Hunter Dean Tindal Esq Isaac Wincall Thomas Clopton Thomas Peck Peter Iohnson Thomas Manby Esq Gloucester For the County of Gloucester Thomas Freame Tho. Floyde Samuel Sheppard Phillip Sheppard VVilliam Morgan Richard Daston Iohn TookeEsq Robert Lord Tracy Thomas Morgan Esq Sir Nicholas Throckmorton Knight VVilliam Bromage Gent. VVilliam VVinter of DimmockGent Richard Matchen Gent. Iohn WynnyattGent Thomas Aylway Gent. Hereford For the County of Hereford Sir Herbert ParretKnight John Barnaby of Brookehampton esq Thomas Baskervile of Collington

penny in the pound and no more out of all such monies as shall be issued by vertue of this Act and each of the Auditors aforesaid shall receive for his pains and Charges in and about this Service the sum of twenty shillings per diem during the continuance of this Service which the Treasurers of the aforesaid monies are hereby enabled and required to issue and pay accordingly XVI That the Commissioners shall direct the said Treasurers from time to time to grant Assignations who are hereby required to observe the same for such and so many sums of money on the respective Receivers or Treasurers for raising money by the Act aforesaid in the several Counties Cities or places where they understand any of the said Money lies as the Commissioners for disbanding the Army and Navy or any threé or more of them as aforesaid shall direct and appoint to such persons and in such manner as the said Commissioners or any threé or more of them as aforesaid shall direct and appoint XVII That the Commissioners herein named or any thrée of them shall and are hereby authorized to call to accompt the present Treasurers in this Act named And Iames Nelthorpe and Iohn Lawson Esquires late Treasurers at Wars or any other former Treasurers or Commissioners of the Army or Navy for all such sums of money as they or any of them stand accomptable for and to certifie the same accompts into His Majesties Exchequer Anno Regni CAROLI IJ. REGIS Angliae Scotiae Franciae Hiberniae DUO DECIMO At the Parliament begun at Westminster the Five and twentieth day of April An. Dom. 1660. In the Twelfth Year of the Reign of Our most Gracious Soveraign Lord CHARLES By the Grace of God of England Scotland France and Ireland King Defender of the Faith c. LONDON Printed by IOHN BILL Printer to the Kings most Excellent Majesty 1660. CUM PRIVILEGIO Anno XII CAROLI II. Regis An Act for further supplying and explaining certain defects in an Act Intituled An Act for the speedy provision of money for disbanding and paying off the Forces of this Kingdom both by Land and Sea WHereas through some doubts arising upon or by negligence in the execution of one Act of this present Parliament Intituled An Act for the speedy provision of money for the disbanding and paying off the Forces of this Kingdom both by Land and Sea And also of one other Act Intituled An Act for supplying and explaining certain defects in the aforesaid Act The same Acts do not answer the ends aforesaid in such measure as was expected without some further explanation of the sence thereof and a review of the several Assessments made thereby so that some persons may not escape without payment at all or go away at very small proportions whilst others pay their just and full due It is therefore Enacted and Declared by the Kings most Excellent Majesty by and with the consent and advice of the Lords and Commons in Parliament Assembled and by the Authority of the ●ame That all and every person and persons of the several Ranks Degrées and Qualifications in the said Act or Acts mentioned shall contribute and pay the several and respective sums of money therein appointed to be paid any pretence of e●emption being the Kings Majesties Servants to the contrary notwithstanding And also that every person and persons Ecclesiastical and Temporal Bodies Politick and Corporate shall pay for their Estates both real and personal the sum of Forty shillings for one hundred pounds per annum and so proportionably for a greater or lesser Estate And for every hundred pounds personal Estate after the rate of five pounds per annum Provided it extend not to Estates under five pounds per annum And to the intent the same may be equally and indifferently Assessed and Taxed Be it further Enacted and Declared by the Authority aforesaid That the several Commissioners in the said Act named or any three of them within their several and respective Counties Limits and Precincts shall have power to nominate and appoint two or more of the most able and discréet persons in every Parish Villa● or Hamlet to review the several Rates 〈◊〉 Ass●ssments that have been made in their several and respective Parishes Villages and Hamlets And where they shall finde that by the negligence or default of any former Assessors any persons or Estates have béen under Rated or omitted to be Rated That then they shall Rate and Assess all such persons and Estates so under-rated or omitted to the full value they are to be rated and assessed at either for their degrées persons or estates by this or the former Acts to that purpose made in this present Parliament or shall by the appointment at the discretion of the said Commissioners make new Assessments or Rates and shall return the same or their said Additional Rates at such places and times as the said Commissioners or any thrée of them shall appoint And it is further enacted and declared by the Authority aforesaid That every sworn Attorney or Clerk in the Office of the Clerk of the Pipe in the Exchequer and euery Attorney belonging to the Office of the Lord Treas●rers Remembrancer shall pay Twenty nobles apéece And be it further enacted and declared That every Barrester at Law and every other person or persons that hath or have subscribed to any Deed or Writing wherein he or they have béen written or entituled Esquire or that hath or have acted by vertue of any Commission or pretended Commission Act or pretended Acts of Parliament wherein they have before the sitting of this Parliament béen written or entituled Esquire shall pay as reputed Esquires within the said Acts. And to the intent that none that have or shall pay his or their due proportions that he or they ought to pay in respect of his or their quality or degrée may be doubly charged every person that hath or shall pay his full proportion for his or her degrée and quality the same excéeding the proportion of his or her estate real and personal shall by certificate under the hands and seals of 〈◊〉 or more of the Commissioners within the same County or Precinets where such sum hath o● shall be paid be discharged from further payment for his or her estate so that it be particularly expressed in every such Certificates where such estate lieth and the several and respective values thereof so that it may appear that his or her proportion for his or her degrée or quality doth exceed that of his or her estate and also where any person or persons Bodies Politick or Corporate have paid or shall pay for his her or their estate in one or more Counties he or they shall by like Certificate or Certificates be discharged in other places for so much and such values specially mentioned to be paid in the said Certificates and no more And be it enacted and declared by the Authority aforesaid That the said Commissioners

or any threé or more of them within their several Precincts shall and may have power to inquire of hear and determine all abuses neglects and misdoings of all and every the Assessors and Collectors to be imployed by vertue of this or the said precedent Acts and shall have power to impose any Fine or Fines upon them or any of them whom they shall be well informed by the oath of two or more credible witnesses which oath they or any two of them are hereby impowred to administer to offend from and after the Twentieth day of December One thousand six hundred and sixty in not performing their duties in their respective employments Provided That no such Fine shall excéed the sum of five pounds for one offence and that such Commissioners who shall set or impose such ●ine or ●ines shall have full power by Warrant under their hands and seals to command the several Constables or Tythingmen which in the several and respective places where such person or persons have their habitation or above upon whom such fine or fines is or are imposed to levy the same by Distress upon the Goods of such person or persons refusing to pay the same and to return the overplus thereof if any be deducting also reasonable charges for taking such Distress to the owner or owners of such Goods and every such fine shall be imployed to the same purposes as the moneys raised by the said former Acts are appointed And also in case no Distress can be found or had for satisfying such fine and in case no Distress can be taken by the Collectors or other Officers appointed to Distrain for the Taxes or Assessments by vertue of the said former Act or Acts that in every such default upon complaint to the said Commissioners or any threé of them within their several and respective limits the said Commissioners or any thrée of them shall have full power and authority to cause every such person from whom no Distress can be had to be committed to the next Common Gaol there to remain until he hath fully satisfied and paid such sum or sums of money which ought to be charged upon him by vertue of this and the said former Acts without Bail or Main-prize And be it further enacted and declared That the Commissioners of every County and place respectively shall make up a true accompt of the sums onely of every Hundred Lath Wapentake or Ward Rated and Assessed by the said former Acts together with the additional sums that shall be rated by vertue of this present Act severally within their several Counties Limits and Precincts without naming the particular persons or estates and shall shew what hath been paid thereof and to what person and persons and what hath been discharged by such Certificates as are appointed by this Act and what is in arrear and upaid and shall return the same unto His Majesties Court of Exchequer before the Second day of March next and in so doing they shall not be compelled to make or return any other Accompt Duplicate or Certificate And it is further enacted and declared That the true and full yearly value of all Lands Tenements Rents Tithes and other Hereditaments shall be rated and assessed in manner aforesaid in the several Parishes Villages or Hamlets where the same are scituate lying or arising And be it further declared That every sum charged upon and paid by any person by vertue of the said former Acts or either of them by reason of estate degrée or quality shall be allowed and deducted out of such further charge as shall be imposed upon him or her by vertue of this present Act. Lastly It is enacted and declared That whosoever is sued at Law for any Act done or to be done in the due execution of this or either of the said former Acts he may plead the General Issue and give the special matter in evidence And if the Plaintiff be Nonsuit or a Verdict pass against any such Plaintiff or Plaintiffs in any such Action the Defendant shall and may recover his double costs Provided always and be it enacted That this Act or any thing therein contained shall not extend to any Peer of this Realm in point of Assessment Imprisonment Distress or otherwise provision being made in the said first recited Act for the Assessing of the said Péers by certain Péers who are therein named and appointed in that behalf And be it further enacted That the Lord Chancellor the Lord Treasurer the Lord Steward of His Majesties Houshold Lord Chamberlain of His Majesties Houshold the Earl of Northampton Lord Howard of Charleton the Lord Roberts the Lord Grey of Wark the Lord Craven the Lord Mohun and the Lord Hatton be added to the Péers named in the said first recited Act for the Assessing of the Péers according to the said recited Act Which said Lords Commissioners or any five of them in this and the former Act named shall have power to Assess Levy and Collect and shall Assess Levy and Collect all such sums of money as shall be assessed according to the tenor of this and the former Act upon such Péers who have not paid proportionably to their estates And be it declared and enacted by the Authority aforesaid That these persons hereafter named shall be added Commissioners for their several Counties Places and Precincts respectively and shall exercise the same power as if they had béen named in the said former Acts or either of them Berks. For the County of Berks Perigrine Hobby Richard Harrison Esqs Iohn Fettiplace of FernhamEsq Burrough of New Windsor Andrew Plumton Gent. Richard Fishborne Gent. Bucks For the County of Bucks Sir Thomas Hampson Baronet Sir Phillip Palmer Baronet Anthony Ra●cliffe Esq Cambridge For the County of Cambridge Sir Thomas Dayrell Iohn Bennet Esq Sir Anthony Cage Levinus Bennett For the Isle of Ely For the Isle of Ely Roger Jennings Esq Chester For the County of Chester Sir George Warberton Baronet Edward Warren Esq Jeffery Shakerly Esq Henry Lee Esq City of Chester For the City and County of the City of Chester the Major for the time being Cornwall For the County of Cornwall Robert Roberts Esq Sir William Thredinham Jo●eph Tredinham Thomas Penhallow The Knights and Burgesses that serve for the said County and Iames Eirsey Gent. Cumberland For the County of Cumberland Anthony Bouch Richard ●Urial Thomas Croswhat Robert VVebster Devon For the County of Devon Nicholas DaviesDoctor of Physick VVilliam Jennins Gent. Edmond Tremaine VVilliam Putt Iohn Kellond VVilliam Bogan George Howard Iohn Kelley VVilliam Kelley Iames Rodd Esqs York For the West Riding in the County of York VVestbury Norcon Esq Robert VVivell Esq Richard Roundhill Gent. VVilliam Hamond Esq VValter Hawkesworth Esq Cutbert VVade Iohn ●reston Gent. Arthur Ingram Esq Edward Atkin●● VVilliam VVitham Gent. Samuel Sonder●●nd Esq Thomas VVard Gent. Sir William ●●gram Knight York Northriding For the Northriding in the County of York Sir William Caley Arthur Caley Esq

employment of a very considerable part of its Shipping and Seamen and of the vent of very great quantities of its Native Commodities and Manufactures as also of its supply with several considerable Commodities which it was wont formerly to have onely from Forraigners and at far dearer Rates And forasmuch as Tobacco is one of the main products of several of those Plantations and upon which their welfare and subsistence and the Navigation of this Kingdom and vent of its Commodities thither do much depend and in regard it is found by experience That the Tobaccoes Planted in these parts are not so good and wholsome for the Takers thereof And that by the Planting thereof your Majesty is deprived of a considerable part of Your Revenue arising by Customes upon Imported Tobacco Do most humbly pray that it may be Enacted by your Majesty And it is hereby Enacted by the Kings most Excellent Majesty and the Lords and Commons in this present Parliament Assembled and by the Authority of the same That no person or persons whatsoever shall or do from and after the first day of January in the year of our Lord One thousand six hundred and sixty Set Plant improve to grow make or cure any Tobacco either in Seed Plant or otherwise in or upon any Ground Earth Field or Place within the Kingdom of England Dominion of Wales Islands of Guernsey or Jersey or Town of Berwick upon Tweed or in the Kingdom of Ireland under the penalty of the Forfeiture of all such Tobacco or the value thereof and of the sum of forty shillings for every Rod or Pole of Ground to Planted Set or Sowen as aforesaid and so portionablely for a greater or 〈◊〉 quantity of Ground One Moyety thereof to His Majesty His Heirs and Successors And the other Moyety to him or them that shall Sue for the same to be recovered by Bill Plaint or Information in any Court of Record wherein no Essoign Protection or Wager in Law shall be allowed And it is hereby further Enacted That all Sheriffs Iustices of the Peace Maiors Bailiffs Contrables and every of them upon Information or Complaint made unto them or any of them by any the Officers of the Customes or by any other person or persons whatsoever That there is any Tobacco Set Sowen Planted or growing within their Iurisdictions or Precincts contrary to this Act shall within Ten days after such Information or Complaint cause to be burnt plucked up consumed or utterly destroyed all such Tobacco so Set Sowen Planted or Growing And it is hereby further Enacted That in case any person or persons shall resist or make forcible opposition against any person or persons in the due and through Execution of this Act that every such person or persons for every such offence shall forfeit the sum of five pounds to be divided and recovered in manner aforesaid And in case any person or persons shall not pay the sums of money by them to be paid by vertue of this Act That in every such case Destress shall be made and Sale thereof returning the Over-plus to the Owners And in case no Destress be to be found That then every such party shall be committed to the Common Gaol in the County where such Offence shall be committed there to remain for the space of two Moneths without Bail or Main-prize Provided always and it is hereby Enacted That this Act nor any thing therein contained shall extend to the hindring of the Planting of Tobacco in any Physick Garden of either University or in any other private Garden for Physick or Chirurgery onely so as the quantity so Planted exceed not one half of one Pole in any one place or Garden Anno XII CAROLI II. Regis An Act for erecting and establishing a Post-Office WHereas for the maintenance of mutual Correspondencies and prevention of many Inconveniences happening by private Posts severall publique Post-Offices have been heretofore erected for carrying and recarrying of Letters by Posts to and from all parts and places within England Scotland and Ireland and severall parts beyond the Seas the well-ordering whereof is a matter of general concernment and of great advantage as well for preservation of Trade and Commerce as otherwise To the end therefore that the same may be managed so that speedy and safe dispatches may be had which is most likely to be effected by ere●ting one general Post-Office for that purpose Be it therefore Enacted by the Kings most Excellent Majesty the Lords and Commons in this present Parliament assembled and by the Authority of the same That there be from henceforth one general Letter-Office erected and established in some convenient place within the City of Lond●n from whence all Letters and Pacquets whatsoever may be with speed and expedition sent unto any part of the Kingdomes of England Scotland and Ireland or any other of his Majesties Dominions or unto any Kingdome or Countrey beyond the Seas at which said Office all Returns and Answers may be likewise received And that one Master of the said General Letter-Office shall be from time to time appointed by the Kings Majesty His Heirs and Successors to be made or constituted by Letters Patents under the Great Seal of England by the name and style of his Majesties Post-Master Generall which said Master of the said Office and his Deputy and Deputies by him thereunto sufficiently authorised and his and their Servants and Agents and no other person or persons whatsoever shall from time to time have the receiving taking up ordering dispatching sending Post or with speed and delivering of all Letters Pacquets whatsoever which shall from time to time be sent to and from all and every the parts and places of England Scotland and Ireland and other his Majesties Dominions and to and from all and every the Kingdomes and Countreys beyond the Seas where he shall settle or cause to be setled Posts or running Messengers for that purpose Except such Letters as shall be sent by Coaches common known Carryers of Goods by Carts Waggons or Packhorses and shall be carried along with their Carts Waggons and Packhorses respectively And except Letters of Merchants and Masters which shall be sent by any Masters of any Ships Barques or other Vessel of Merchandize or by any other person imployed by them for the Carriage of such Letters aforesaid according to the respective directions And also except Letters to be sent by any private Friend or Friends in their wayes of journey or travel or by any Messenger or Messengers sent on purpose for or concerning the private affairs of any person or persons And also except Messengers who carry and recarry Commissions or the Return thereof Affidavits Writs Process or Proceedings or the Returnes thereof issuing out of any Court And be it furtther Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That such Postmaster Generall for the time being as shall from time to time be made and constituted by His Majesty His Heirs and Successors and the respective Deputies