present Act That it shall and may be lawful to and for Watermen Boatmen Bargemen and other helpers of them in convenient places to have and use Winches Ropes and other Engines and with the same by strength of Men Horses or other Beasts or any of them going upon the Land or Banks near the said River or passages in convenient manner without the hindrance trouble or impeachment of any person or persons to Draw or Hale up the Barges Boats Lighters or other Vessels Provided always That neither the said Vndertakers nor Commissioners do make or cause to be made any landing Place Wharf or Key within the City of New-Sarum New-Sarum or the bounds or liberties thereof or within one mile of the same from Harnam-Bridge down the stream towards Christ-Church without the consent of the Lord Bishop of Sarum the Mayor and Recorder of the said City for the time being and the thrée antientest Aldermen of the said City or thrée of them first had and obtained And be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That the said Haven River Channels The River Havens c. to be under the Survey of the Vndertakers and Commissioners Trenches and all Wears Wharfs Sasâ—es Locks Turnpikes Penns for water and all other things whatsoever made and erected in order to making the said Haven and making Navigable the said River and Channel as aforesaid shall from henceforth be in the sole Rule Order and Survey of the said Vndertakers and Commissioners as aforesaid and not under the Survey or Order of any Commissioners of Sewers nor subject to a Commission of Sewers or any Laws or Statutes made for Sewers Any Law or Statute to the contrary hereof in any wise notwithstanding And be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That if any Action Bill Persons sued for acting upon this Act may plead the general Issue Plaint or Suit be brought in any of His Majesties Courts at VVestminster or elsewhere against any person or persons for or concerning any matter or thing by him them or any of them done advised or commanded to be done by vertue of this Act That it shall and may be lawful for every such person and persons and for all that act in their aid and assistance or by their commandment to plead the General Issue that he or they are not Guilty And to give this Act or any clause matter or thing herein contained in Evidence to the Iury that shall try the same for their justification without special Pleading of the same and shall thereupon take advantage of this Act as fully to all intents and purposes as if the same had been by them fully and well pleaded Provided also and be it Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That Philip Earl of Pembroke and Montgomery shall and may have power authority and liberty if he shall see cause and find it to be necessary and convenient to the publick good to enlarge and make Navigable the River of VViley from Harnam-Bridge aforesaid so far as VVilton in the County of VVilts Wiley River and in order thereunto to put in execution the several Powers of this Act in relation to the said River of VViley in the same and as ample manner as the said River of Avon may be made Navigable by this Act and under the same Provisoes Restrictions and Limitations Anno XVII Caroli II Regis CAP. I. Twelve hundred and fifty thousand pounds granted to the Kings Majesty for his present further Supply VVE Your Majesties most Dutiful and Loyal Subjects the Commons Assembled in Parliament having observed the Ways and Means by which Your Majesty hath béen enforced to Engage Your self in a War against the States of the United Provinces for the necessary Defence of Your own Crown and Dignity and the Safety and welfare of Your People Do with all humble Thankfulness acknowledge Your Majesties Care and Conduct in this Great Affair which as it hath béen already attended with very considerable Success so we shall daily pray that all Your Majesties Enterprises may still be crowned with Honour and Victory And although the continuing Insolence of Your Majesties Enemies and the doubtful Amity of some of Your Majesties Neighbours have made it necessary to provide for further and greater Expences in a time when the general Contagion hath much interrupted our Trade and Commerce Yet that Your Majesty may sée that we your Majesties Loyal Subjects do more consider our Zeal and Duty to your Majesty then any difficulties under which we labour We have chearfully and unanimously given and granted and by these presents do give and grant unto Your most Excellent Majesty the sum of Twelve hundred and fifty thousand pounds to be Raised and Levied in manner following And we do most humbly beséech Your Majesty That it may be Enacted And be it Enacted by the Kings most Excellent Majesty by and with the Advice and Consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal and of the Commons in this present Parliament Assembled and by Authority of the same That the sum of Twelve hundred and fifty thousand pounds shall be Raised Levied 1250000 l. granted to his Majesty and paid unto your Majesty within the space of Two years in manner following That is to say Whereas in and by a certain Act of Parliament lately passed Entituled An Act for granting a Royal Aid unto the Kings Majesty of Twenty four hundred threescore and seventeen thousand and five hundred pounds 16 17 Car 2. cap. 1. to be Raised Levied and paid in the space of Three years It was amongst other things Enacted That the sum of Thréescore and eight thousand eight hundred and ninetéen pounds and nine shillings by the month for Thirty six months beginning from the Five and twentieth day of December 1664. should be Assessed Taxed Collected Levied and paid by Twelve Quarterly payments in the several Counties Cities Burroughs Towns and places within England and VVales and the Town of Berwick upon Tweed according to the several Rates and Proportions and in such manner as in the said Act is expressed One years payment whereof that is to say Four Quarterly Payments will be fully expired upon the Five and twentieth day of December in the year of our Lord 1665. And Two years payment more will be then to come and unexpired It is now further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid 52083 l. 6 s. 8 â— per mensem That the sum of Fifty two thousand fourscore and thrée pounds six shillings and eight pence by the moneth for Twenty four moneths beginning from the Five and twentieth day of December One thousand six hundred sixty five shall be Assessed Taxed Collected Levied and paid by Eight Quarterly payments in the several Counties Cities Burroughs Towns and places within England and VVales and the Town of Berwick upon Tweed over and above the sum of Thréescore and eight thousand eight hundred and ninetéen pounds and nine shillings by the moneth which is to
the Land and if any thing be done to the contrary it shall be void in Law and holden for error And by another Statute made in the six and thirtieth year of the same King Edward the Third 36 E. 3. c. 15. It is amongst other things Enacted That all pleas which shall be pleaded in any Courts before any the Kings Iustices or in his other places or before any of his other Ministers or in the Courts and places of any other Lords within the Realm shall be entred and inrolled in Latine And whereas by the Statute made in the third year of King Henry the seventh 3 H. 7. cap. 1. power is given to the Chancellor the Lord Treasurer of England for the time being and the Kéeper of the Kings Privy Seal or two of them calling unto them a Bishop and a Temporal Lord of the Kings most Honourable Councel and the two Chief Iustices of the Kings Bench and Common Pleas for the time being or other two Iustices in their absence to procéed as in that Act is expressed for the punishmâ—â—â— of some particular offences therein mentioned And by the Statute made in the One and tâ—â—ntieth year of King Henry the Eighth 21 H. 8. cap. 20 The President of the Councel is associated to joyn with the Lord Chancellor and other Iudges in the said Statute of the third of Henry the seventh mentioned But the said Iudges have not kept themselves to the points limited by the said Statute but have undertaken to punish where no Law doth warrant and to make Decrées for things having no such Authority and to inflict heavier punishments then by any Law is warranted All matters â—â—â—minable in 〈◊〉 Star-Chamber maâ— be â—â—â—â—â—nable and 〈◊〉 â—â—o by the Common Law And forasmuch as all matters examinable or determinable before the said Iudges or in the Court commonly called the Star-Chamber may have their proper remedy and redress and their due punishment and correction by the Common Law of the Land and in the Ordinary course of Iustice elswhere and forasmuch as the reasons and motives inducing the erection and continuance of that Court do now cease and the procéedings Censures and Decrées of that Court have by experience been found to be an intolerable burthen to the Subject and the means to introduce an Arbitrary Power and Government And forasmuch as the Councel-Table hath of late times assumed unto it self a power to intermeddle in Civil causes and matters only of private interest betwéen party and party and have adventured to determine of the Estates and Liberties of the Subiect contrary to the Law of the Land and the Rights and Priviledges of the Subject by which great and manifold mischiefs and inconveniencies have arisen and happened and much incertainty by means of such procéedings hath béen conceived concerning Mens Rights and Estates For setling whereof and preventing the like in time to come Be it Ordained and Enacted by the Authority of this present Parliament Court of Star-Chamber and all its powers dissolved That the said Court commonly called the Star-Chamber and all Iurisdiction Power and Authority belonging unto or exercised in the same Court or by any the Iudges Officers or Ministers thereof be from the first day of August in the year of our Lord God One thousand six hundred forty and one clearly and absolutely dissolved taken away and determined and that from the said first day of August neither the Lord Chancellor or Kéeper of the Great Seal of England the Lord Treasurer of England the Kéeper of the Kings Privy-Seal or President of the Councel nor any Bishop Temporal Lord Privy-Councellor or Iudg or Iustice whatsoever shall have any power or authority to hear examine or determine any matter or thing whatsoever in the said Court commonly called the Star-Chamber or to make pronounce or deliver any Iudgment Sentence Order or Decrée or to do any Iudicial or Ministerial Act in the said Court And that all and every Act and Acts of Parliament and all and every Article clause and sentence in them and every of them by which any Iurisdiction power or Authority is given limited or appointed unto the said Court commonly called the Star-Chamber or unto all or any the Iudges Officers or Ministers thereof or for any procéedings to be had or made in the said Court or for any matter or thing to be drawn into question examined or determined there shall for so much as concerneth the said Court of Star-Chamber and the power and authority thereby given unto it be from the said first day of August repealed and absolutely revoked and made void And be it likewise Enacted Like Iurisdiction in several other Courts repealed and taken away That the like Iurisdiction now used and exercised in the Court before the President and Councel in the Marches of Wales and also in the Court before the President and Councel established in the Northern parts And also in the Court commonly called the Court of the Dutchy of Lancaster held before the Chancellor and Councel of that Court And also in the Court of Exchequer of the County Palatine of Chester held before the Chamberlain and Councel of that Court The like Iurisdiction being exercised there shall from the said first day of August One thousand six hundred forty and one be also repealed and absolutely revoked and made void any Law prescription custome or usage Or the said Statute made in the third year of King Henry the seventh Or the Statute made the One and twentieth of Henry the Eigth Or any Act or Acts of Parliament heretofore had or made to the contrary thereof in any wise notwithstanding And that from henceforth no Court Councel No Court or Councel to have the like Iurisdiction or place of Iudicature shall be erected ordained constituted or appointed within this Realm of England or Dominion of Wales which shall have use or exercise the same or the like Iurisdiction as is or hath béen used practised or exercised in the said Court of Star-Chamber Be it likewise declared and Enacted by Authority of this present Parliament The King nor his privy Councel shall have no Iurisdiction over any mans estate That neither his Majesty nor his Privy-Councel have or ought to have any Iurisdiction power or authority by English Bill Petition Articles Libel or any other Arbitrary way whatsoever to examine or draw into question determine or dispose of the Lands Tenements Hereditaments Goods or Chattels of any the Subjects of this Kingdome But that the same ought to be tryed and determined in the ordinary Courts of Iustice and by the ordinary course of the Law And be it further provided and Enacted That if any Lord Chancellor Penalties upon great Officers and others for the first offence or Kéeper of the Great Seal of England Lord Treasurer Kéeper of the Kings Privy Seal President of the Councel Bishop Temporal Lord Privy Councellor Iudg or Iustice whatsoever shall offend or do
time wherein the said offence shall be committed CAP. XI A Repeal of the Branch of a Statute primo Elizabethae concerning Commissioners for Causes Ecclesiastical VVHereas in the Parliament holden in the first year of the reign of the late Quéen Elizabeth late Quéen of England there was an Act made and established Intituled An Act restoring to the Crown the antient Jurisdiction over the State Ecclesiastical and Spiritual St. 1 Eliz. 2 and abolishing all Forreign Power repugnant to the same In which Act amongst other things there is contained one Clause Branch Article or Sentence whereby it was Enacted to this effect Namely That the said late Quéens Highness her Heirs and Successors Kings or Quéens of this Realm should have full power and authority by vertue of that Act by Letters Patent under the Great Seal of England to assign name and authorite when and as often as her Highness her Heirs or Successors should think méet and convenient and for such and so long time as should please her Highness her Heirs or Successors such person or persons being natural born Subjects to her Highness her Heirs or Successors as her Majesty her Heirs or Successors should think méet to exercise use occupy and execute under her Highness her Heirs and Successors all manner of Iurisdictions Priviledges and preheminence in any wise touching or concerning any Spiritual or Ecclesiastical Iurisdiction within these her Realms of England and Ireland or any other her Highnesse Dominions and Countries and to visit reform redresse order correct and amend all such errors heresies schismes abuses offences contempts and enormities whatsoever which by any manner Spiritual or Ecclesiastical power Authority or Iurisdiction can or may lawfully be reformed ordered redressed corrected restrained or amended to the pleasure of Almighty God the increase of vertue and the conservation of the Peace and Vnity of this Realm And that such person or persons so to be named assigned authorized and appointed by her Highness her Heirs or Successors after the said Letters Patents to him or them made and delivered as aforesaid should have full power and Authority by vertue of that Act and of the said Letters Patents under her Highness her Heirs or Successors to exercise use and execute all the Premisses according to the tenor and effect of the said Letters Patents any matter or cause to the contrary in any wise notwithstanding And whereas by colour of some words in the aforesaid Branch of the said Act High Commission Court whereby Commissioners are Authorized to execute their Commission according to the tenor and effect of the Kings Letters Patents and by Letters Patents grounded thereupon the said Commissioners have to the great and insufferable wrong and oppression of the Kings Subjects used to fine and imprison them and to exercise other Authority not belonging to Ecclesiastical Iurisdiction restored by that Act and divers other great mischiefs and inconveniences have also ensued to the Kings Subjects by occasion of the said Branch and Commissions issued thereupon and the executions thereof Therefore for the repressing and preventing of the aforesaid abuses mischiefs and inconveniencies in time to come Be it Enacted by the Kings most Excellent Majesty The said branch of the stat 1 El. c. 2. repealed and the Lords and Commons in this present Parliament Assembled and by the Authority of the same That the foresaid Branch Clause Article or Sentence contained in the said Act and every word matter and thing contained in that Branch Clause Article or Sentence shall from henceforth be repealed annulled revoked annihilated and utterly made void for ever any thing in the said Act to the contrary in any wise notwithstanding Rep. St. 13 Car. 1. cap. 11. And be it also Enacted by the Authority aforesaid that no Archbishop Bishop Power taken away from Archbishops Bishops and other Ecclesiastical persons and Courts Exp. St. 13. Car. 2. c. 12. nor Vicar-General nor any Chancellor Official nor Commissary of any Arch-bishop Bishop or Vicar-General nor any Ordinary whatsoever nor any other Spiritual or Ecclesiastical Iudg Officer or Minister of Iustice nor any other person or persons whatsoever exercising Spiritual or Eccesiastical Power Authority or Iurisdiction by any Grant License or Commission of the Kings Majesty his Heirs or Successors or by any power or authority derived from the King his Heirs or Successors or otherwise shall from and after the first day of August which shall be in the year of our Lord God one thousand six hundred forty and one award impose or inflict any pain penalty fine amerciament imprisonment or other corporal punishment upon any of the Kings Subjects for any contempt misdemeanor crime offence matter or thing whatsoever belonging to Spiritual or Ecclesiastical cognizance or Iurisdiction Oath ex officio St. 13 Car. 2. cap. 12. or shall ex officio or at the instance or promotion of any other person whatsoever urge enforce tender give or minister unto any Churchwarwarden Sydeman or other person whatsoever any corporal Oath whereby he or she shall or may be charged or obliged to make any presentment of any crime or offence or to confess or to accuse himself or her self of any crime offence delinquency or misdemeanor or any neglect matter or thing whereby or by reason whereof he or she shall or may be lyable or exposed to any censure pain penalty or punishment whatsoever upon pain and penalty that every person who shall offend contrary to this Statute Penalty treble damages and one hundred pounds shall forfeit and pay treble damages to every person thereby grieved and the sum of One hundred pounds to him or them who shall first demand and sue for the same which said Treble damages and sum of One hundred pounds shall and may be demanded and recovered by Action of Debt Bill or Plaint in any Court of Record wherein no priviledg Offendors convicted disabled from any office or imployment by the Kings Letters Patents Essoin protection or wager of Law shall be admitted or allowed to the Defendant And be it further Enacted That every person who shall be once convicted of any act or offence prohibited by this Statute shall for such act or offence be from and after such conviction utterly disabled to be or continue in any office or imployment in any Court of Iustice whatsoever or to exercise or execute any power authority or jurisdiction by force of any Commission or Letters Patents of the King his Heirs or Successors And be it further Enacted That from and after the said first day of August No new Court to be erected with the like power no new Court shall be erected ordained or appointed within this Realm of England or Dominion of Wales which shall or may have the like power jurisdiction or Authority as the said High Commission Court now hath or pretendeth to have But that all and every such Letters Patents Commissions and Grants made or to be made by his
for six moneths and there to be put to hard labour or to the Common-Gaol for one whole year without Bail or Main-prize at the Discretion of the Iustices of the Peace before whom such Conviction shall be and not to be discharged from thence till he or they have given sufficient Sureties for their Good-behaviour for one whole year next ensuing after his or their inlargement Provided that where any Offender shall be punished by force of this Act that he shall not be prosecuted nor incur the penalty of any other Law or Statute for the same offence 19 H. 7. c. 11. 3 Jac. c. 13. 7 Jac. c. 13. CAP. XI The Confirmation of Three Acts therein mentioned BE it Enacted by the Kings most Excellent Majesty by and with the advice and consent of the Lords and Commons in this present Parliament assembled and by the Authority of the same That the several Acts herein after mentioned made or mentioned to be made upon or since the Twenty fifth day of April in the Twelfth year of his said Majesties Reign by his said Majesty by and with the advice or consent of the Lords and Commons Assembled at Westminster upon the said 25th of April and there continued until the 29th day of December then next following and then dissolved which said Acts are herein after particularly mentioned and expressed by the several and respective Titles following St. 12 Car. 2. cap. 29 St. 12 Car. 2. cap. 33. St. 12 Car. 2. â—ap 14. That is to say One Act Entituled An Act for the raising of Seventy thousand pounds for the further Supply of his Majesty And one other Act entituled An Act for Confirmation of Marriages and one other Act entituled An Act for a perpetual Anniversary shanksgiving on the Twenty ninth day of May and all and every the Clauses Sentences and Articles in them and every of them contained shall be and hereby are Ratified and Confirmed and Enacted and Declared to have the full force and strength of Acts of Parliament according to the tenor and purport thereof and so shall be adjudged déemed and taken to all intents and purposes whatsoever and as if the same had béen made declared and Enacted by Authority of this present Parliament CAP. XII Explanation of a Clause contained in an Act of Parliament made in the Seventeenth Year of the late King Charles Entituled An Act for Repeal of a Branch of a Statute Primo Elizabethae concerning Commissioners for Causes Ecclesiastical VVHereas in an Act of Parliament made in the Seventeenth year of the late King Charles Entituled An Act for Repeal of a Branch of a Statute Primo Elizabethae concerning Commissioners for Causes Ecclesiastical St. 17 Car. 1. cap. 11. it is amongst other things Enacted That no Arch-bishop Bishop nor Vicar-General nor any Chancellor nor Commissary of any Arch-Bishop Bishop or Vicar-General nor any Ordinary whatsoever nor any other Spiritual or Ecclesiastical Iudg Officer or Minister of Iustice nor any other person or persons whatsoever exercising Spiritual or Ecclesiastical Power Authority or Iurisdiction by any Grant License or Commission of the Kings Majesty His Heirs or Successors or by any Power or Authority derived from the King His Heirs or Successors or otherwise shall from and after the first day of August which then should be in the year of our Lord God One thousand six hundred forty one Award Impose or Inflict any Pain Penalty Fine Amerciament Imprisonment or other Corporal punishment upon any of the Kings Subjects for any contempt misdemeanor crime offence matter or thing whatsoever belonging to Spiritual or Ecclesiastical Cognizance or Iurisdiction whereupon some doubt hath béen made that all ordinary power of Coertion and Procéedings in Causes Ecclesiastical were taken away whereby the ordinary course of Iustice in Causes Ecclesiastical hath béen obstructed Be it therefore declared and Enacted by the Kings most Excellent Majesty by and with the advice and consent of the Lords and Commons in this present Parliament assembled The ordinary power of Archbishops c. not taken away and by the Authority thereof That neither the said Act nor any thing therein contained doth or shall take away any ordinary Power or Authority from any of the said Arch-Bishops Bishops or any other person or persons named as aforesaid but that they and every of them exercising Ecclesiastical Iurisdiction may procéed determine sentence execute and exercise all manner of Ecclesiastical Iurisdiction May use Ecclesiastical Iurisdiction and all Censures and Coertions appertaining and belonging to the same before the making of the Act before recited in all causes and matters belonging to Ecclesiastical Iurisdiction according to the Kings Majesties Ecclesiastical Laws used and practised in this Realm in as ample manner and form as they did and might lawfully have done before the making of the said Act. The Stat. 17. Car. 1. cap. 11. Rep. as to all except what concerns the High Commiss on Court Proviso And be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That the afore recited Act of Decimo septimo Caroli and all the Matters and Clauses therein contained excepting what concerns the High Commission-Court or the new erection of some such like Court by Commission shall be and is hereby repealed to all intents and purposes whatsoever Any thing clause or sentence in the said Act contained to the contrary notwithstanding Provided alwayes and it is hereby Enacted That neither this Act nor any thing herein contained shall extend or be construed to revive or give force to the said Branch of the said Statute made in the said first year of the Reign of the said late Quéen Elizabeth mentioned in the said Act of Parliament made in the said seventéenth year of the Reign of the said King Charles but that the said Branch of the said Statute made in the said first year of the Reign of the said Quéen Elizabeth shall stand and be repealed in such sort as if this Act had never béen made Provided also and it is hereby further Enacted That it shall not be lawful for any Arch-Bishop Proviso touching the oath Ex Officio Bishop Vicar-General Chancellor Commissary or any other Spiritual or Ecclesiastical Iudg Officer or Minister or any other person having or exercising Spiritual or Ecclesiastical Iurisdiction to tender or administer unto any person whatsoever the Oath usually called the Oath Ex Officio or any other Oath whereby such person to whom the same is tendred or administred may be charged or compelled to confess or accuse or to purge him or her self of any criminal matter or thing whereby he or she may be lyable to any censure or punishment Any thing in this Statute or any other Law Custom or Vsage heretofore to the contrary hereof in any wise notwithstanding Proviso not to give any other Iurisdiction to any Archbishop c. than they had by law before the year 1639. The Kings Supremacy in Ecclesiastical matters Canons Ecclesiastical Provided
alwayes That this Act or any thing therein contained shall not extend or be construed to extend to give unto any Arch-Bishop Bishop or any other Spiritual or Ecclesiastical Iudg Officer or other person or persons aforesaid any power or authority to exercise execute inflict or determine any Ecclesiastical Iurisdiction Censure or Coertion which they might not by Law have done before the year of our Lord 1639 nor to abridg or diminish the Kings Majesties Supremacy in Ecclesiastical Matters and Affairs nor to confirm the Canons made in the year 1640. nor any of them nor any other Ecclesiastical Laws or Canons not formerly confirmed allowed or Enacted by Parliament or by the established Laws of the Land as they stood in the year of the Lord 1639. CAP. XIII The Arrears of the Excise and New Impost vested in His Majesty BE it Declared and Enacted by the Kings most Excellent Majesty All Moneys owing upon Excise by any Laws or Ordinances vested in his Majesty by and with the advice and consent of the Lords and Commons assembled in Parliament and by the Authority thereof That all and every sum and sums of money any wayes due or owing from or by any person or persons whatsoever for or touching the Imposition or Duty called the Excise heretofore imposed and made payable upon Béer Ale or any other Commodities by any Laws or pretended Laws or Ordinances and all Debts therefore owing whether by Obligation or upon Accompt from Farmers of Excise or any other person or persons whatsoever or any of their Securities and not pardoned by his Majesties most Gratious Act of Pardon and Oblivion be and are hereby vested and setled in the Kings Majesty his Heirs and Successors and that his Sacred Majesty his Heirs and Successors may from time to time and at all times hereafter have demand sue for and recover the same of all and every person and persons their Heirs Executors and Administrators having Assets who are any way accomptable for the same or any part thereof and from his and their respective Sureties and Securities as if the same Duties of Excise had béen lawfully Assessed Imposed and Collected and as if the several pretended Acts Orders and Ordinances Assessing and Imposing the same had béen good true legal and effectual Acts of Parliament and had in express words given and granted all and every the said Duties of Excise or new Impost unto his Majesty and as if the Obligations and Recognizances entred into by the respective Sureties and Securities had at the time of entring into the same béen taken in his Majesties Name according to the form prescribed in the Statute made in the Thrée and thirtieth year of the Reign of King Henry the Eight 33 H. 8. c. 39. Provided alwayes That all and every person and persons accomptable by vertue of this Act Proviso for allowances St. 12 Car. 2. cap. 11. shall have all such due allowance in his or their accompts as all such persons whose accompts are accepted in an Act Intituled An Act of Free and General Pardon Indempnity and Oblivion have or ought to have Provided alwayes Proviso no person to be questioned unless he be such before the 25 of December 1662. All persons accomptable shall have authority to levy and recover all Arrears That no person shall be questioned or molested for any of the Duties herein or hereby vested in his Majesty unless he shall be sued or prosecuted with effect before the Five and twentieth day of December which shall be in the year of our Lord One thousand six hundred sixty two Provided also and be it Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That all persons accomptable to his Majesty by this Act shall have power and authority and are hereby enabled to sue for levy and recover from any person or persons who do stand indebted unto them in any sum of money for the Duty or Impost of Excise for which they are hereby accomptable all sums of money and Arrears unsatisfied in as full and ample manner and form as they might have received and levied the same when they first grew due CAP. XIV The Confirmation of an Act Entituled An Act for Encouraging and Increasing of Shipping and Navigation and several other Acts both Publick and Private mentioned therein WHereas during the late difficulties and exigencies of affairs in the absence of his most Excellent Majesty and in reference to his return from beyond the Seas into these his Majesties Dominions The Lords and Commons being assembled at Westminster the Five and twentieth day of April in the twelfth year of his Majesties Reign were from thence and after his Majesties return continued untill the nine and twentieth day of December then next following and now last past and then dissolved by his Majesty in which time several Acts were passed by his Majesty by and with the advice and consent of the said Lords and Commons assembled as aforesaid which being of necessary use are fit to be continued and confirmed although the manner of the said assembling enforced by the difficulties and exigencies aforesaid which then lay upon the Nation is not to be drawn into example Be it therefore Enacted by the Kings most Excellent Majesty by and with the advice and consent of the Lords and Commons in this present Parliament Assembled and by the Authority of the same That all and singular the Acts made or mentioned to be made by his said Majesty by and with the advice or consent of the Lords and Commons upon or since the said Five and twentieth day of April herein after particularly mentioned and expressed that is to say One Act Entituled An Act for the encouraging and increasing of Shipping and Navigation One other Act St. 12 Car. 2. cap. 18. St. 12 Car. 2. cap. 32. St. 12 Car. 2. cap. 36. St. 12 Car. 2. cap. 34. St. 12 Car. 2. cap. 13. St. 12 Car. 2. cap. 6. Entituled An Act for Prohibiting the Exportation of Wooll Wool-fells Fullers Earth or any kind of Scouring Earth One other Act Entituled An Act Impowring the Master of the Rolls for the time being for to make Leases for years in order to new build the old Houses belonging to the Rolls One other Act Entituled An Act for prohibiting the Planting Setting or Sowing of Tobacco in England and Ireland One other Act Entituled An Act for restraining the taking of Excessive Usury One other Act Entituled An Act for the present nominating of Commissioners of Sewers One other Act Entituled An Act for the Incorporating of the Master and Wardens of the Company of Haberdashers LONDON to be Governors of the Free-School and Alms-houses in Newport in the County of Salop of the Foundation of William Adams and for Setling of Lands and Possessions on them for maintenance thereof and other charitable Uses And all and every the Clauses Sentences and Articles in them and every of them contained shall be and hereby are Ratified and Confirmed and Enacted and Declared
power to Administer as followeth The Oath to be taken by Searchers I A. B. do swear that I shall well and truly execute the Office of Searcher of Broad Woollen Cloth within the West-Riding of the County of York according to the Laws and Statutes of this Realm and according to the best of my Skill and Knowledge So help me God And be it further Enacted That if any Searcher shall fail in the due Execution of his Office contrary to his Oath and Laws and Statutes in that case made and provided every such Searcher shall forfeit and lose for such Fault or not setting to such Seal of Lead as aforesaid Five pounds Penalty upon Searchers And that it shall and may be lawful to and for any other Searcher in the West-Riding taking with him one of the said Wardens of the said Corporation to research any of the said Clothes Any thing in any former Statute to the contrary thereof in any wise notwithstanding The Authority and power of the Searchers And it is further Enacted That it shall and may be lawful to and for all and every such Searcher and Searchers from time to time so often as occasion shall require to enter into any Shop house Ware-house or any other place in the day-time of any Clothiers Drapers Cloth-Workers or of any other person or persons whatsoever where any of the said Cloths shall be within the said West-Riding to search for all suspected Cloth And in case of resistance the party so resisting shall forfeit the sum of Ten pounds the one half thereof to His Majesty the other half to the use of the said Corporation And if upon such Search any Broad-Cloth shall be found made of or mixed with Flocks Thrums Goats hair or other deceitful Wooll the said Cloth shall be and is hereby Declared and Enacted to be forfeited And that it shall and may be lawful to and for the said Iustices Masters Wardens and Assistants or any thirteen of them at any Court to be by them held as aforesaid to dispose thereof in such manner as by the Laws and Statutes of this Realm the same ought to be disposed None may make broad Cloth but such as have served as apprentizes so Clothiers for 7. years or have been exercised in the Trade for that time The Penalty Housholders and houswifes may not make Cloth to sell not being free of the said Trade The Penalty And be it further Enacted That no person or persons within the said West-Riding who hath not served as an Apprentice to the Trade of Clothier for the space of Seven years or have not béen exercised therein by the like space of seven years before shall make any Broad-Cloth to sell under the penalty of five pounds for every Moneth that he she or they shall continue to exercise the said Trade excepting such persons only as now be in the actual use and exercise of the said Trade That one moyetie thereof to be paid to the Kings Majesty His Heirs and Successors and the other moyetie to the use of the said Corporation And that no Housholder or Houswife within the said West-Riding or elsewhere within the said County not being frée of the said Trade of Clothiers or not having béen exercised therein as aforesaid or not being the widow of any such person as aforesaid shall from the Feast of Pentecost next ensuing make or cause to be made any Woollen Cloth whatsoever unless it be to the use of themselves their Children and Families but not to sell upon pain to forfeit double the value for every Piece of Cloth so made and exposed to sale one moyetie thereof to His Majesty the other moyetie to any person who shall sue for the same in any of His Majesties Courts of Record wherein no Essoin Protection or Wager of Law shall be allowed Power to appoint a Clerk Register Treasurer and other Officers And it is further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That the said Iustices Masters Wardens and Assistants or any thirtéen of them are hereby impowred to nominate and appoint a Clerk a Register and Treasurer and such other Officer and Officers to sée the due execution of the several Powers given by this Act as they in their Discretions shall think méet and to give them an Oath or Oaths for the due execution of their several places as aforesaid And it is further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That all Fines How the fines and forfeitures shall be levied Forfeitures and Penalties imposed or to be levied by virtue of this Act the means and recovery whereof is not otherwise herein provided for and set forth shall be levied by distress and sale of the offender or offenders Goods and Chattels by Warrant from the said Iustices Masters Wardens and Assistants or any thirtéen of them rendring the overplus to the Owner thereof upon demand And be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid Counterfeiting the Seal of the Corporation That if any person or persons whatsoever shall counterfeit the Seal of the said Corporation he or they so offending shall forfeit the sum of Twenty pounds of often as such person or persons shall upon due proof be found guilty of the same which said forfeiture is to be levyed by distress and sale of the Offenders Goods The Penalty rendring the overplus to the Owner thereof upon demand and for want of such distress such person and persons to be committed to the Common Goal of the County where he or they shall be found by Warrant under the Hand and Seal of any one of the Iustices of the Peace of the said County there to remain without Bail or Mainprize for the space of six moneths or until such person or persons shall have paid the Fine as aforesaid And be it Enacted That all and every Article All clauses in any other Statute contrary to this Act concerning Clothing Repealed Clause and Sentence in any Act of Parliament heretofore made touching and concerning the said abuses of Broad Woollen Clothes in this Act mentioned and being repugnant or contrary to any Article and Sentence in this Act shall as touching the said Clothes only made within the said West-Riding from and after the Feast of St. John Baptist which shall be in the year of our Lord God One thousand six hundred sixty and two be utterly void to all intents and purposes whatsoever And in all Actions and Suits that shall be brought against any person or persons for Acting in any thing according to the true intent and meaning of this Act the person or persons so sued or molested Persons sued for executing this Act may plead the generall Issue shall or may plead the general Issue of Not guilty and give the special matter in evidence and shall recover double Costs in every such case if the Verdict pass for such person or persons or that the Plaintiff or Plaintiffs be Non-suit therein Provided always That nothing
all Statutes and Acts of Parliament Acts that are to have continuance shall remain in foâ—ce which are to have continuance unto the end of this present Session shall be of full force after the said Adjournment until this present Session be fully ended and determined And if this Session shall determine by dissolution of this present Parliament then all the Acts aforesaid shall be continued until the end of the first Session of the next Parliament And all Statutes and Acts of Parliament When the Acts which are now to pass shall take effect which before the said Adjournment shall pass by his Majesties royal Assent shall be put in execution immediately after forty dayes after the said Adjournment notwithstanding that by the words or letter of the said Acts or any of them they be limited to take effect or be put in execution from or at any time after the end of this present Session Anno Reg. Caroli Regis Angliae Scotiae Franciae Hiberniae Tertio AT the Parliament began at Westminster the Seventeenth day of March Anno Dom. 1627. in the Third 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. And there continued until the Twenty sixth day of June following and then prorogued unto the twentieth day of October next ensuing To the high pleasure of Almighty God and to the weal publick of this Realm were enacted as followeth A Declaration of divers Rights and Liberties of the People to the Kings most Excellent Majesty HVmbly shew unto our Soveraign Lord the King the Lords Spiritual and Temporal The Petition of Right and Commons in Parliament assembled That whereas it is declared and Enacted by a Statute made in the time of the Reign of King Edward the First 34 Ed. 1. commonly called Statutum de Tallagio non concedendo That no Tallage or Aid shall be laid or levied by the King or his Heirs in this Realm without the good will and assent of the Archbishops Bishops Earls Barons Knights Burgesses and other the Fréemen of the Commonalty of this Realm And by Authority of Parliament holden in the five and twentieth year of the reign of King Edward the third 25 Ed. 3. Rot. Parl. it is declared and Enacted That from thenceforth no person should be compelled to make any Loans to the King against his will because such Loans were against reason and the Franchise of the Land 1 Ed. 3. 6. 11 R. 2. 9. 1 R. 3. 2. And by other Laws of this Realm it is provided That none should be charged by any Charge or Imposition called a Benevolence nor by such like charge By which the Statutes before mentioned and other the good Laws and Statutes of this Realm your Subjects have inherited this Fréedom That they should not be compelled to contribute to any Tax Tallage Aid or other like charge not set by common consent in Parliament Yet nevertheless of late divers Commissions directed to sundry Commissioners in several Counties with instructions have issued by means whereof your People have béen in divers places assembled and required to lend certain sums of Money unto your Majesty and many of them upon their refusal so to do have had an Oath administred unto them not warrantable by the Laws or Statutes of this Realm and have béen constrained to become bound to make Appearance and give Attendance before your Privy Councel and in other places and others of them have béen therefore imprisoned confined and sundry other ways molested and disquieted And divers other Charges have béen laid and levied upon your People in several Counties by Lord-Lievetenants Deputy-Lievetenants Commissioners for Musters Iustices of Peace and others by command or direction from your Majesty or your Privy Councel against the Laws and frée Customs of this Realm 9. H. 3. 29. And where also by the Statute called The great Charter of the Liberties of England It is declared and Enacted That no Fréeman may be taken or imprisoned or be disseised of his Fréehold or Liberties or his frée Customs or be outlawed or exiled or in any manner destroyed but by the lawful judgement of his Péers or by the Law of the Land 28. Ed. 3. 3. And in the eight and twentieth year of the reign of King Edward the third it was declared and Enacted by Authority of Parliament That no man of what estate or condition that he be should be put out of his Land or Tenements nor taken nor imprisoned nor disherited nor put to death without being brought to answer by due process of Law St. 37. Ed. 3. 18. St. 38 Ed. 3 9. St. 42 Ed. 3. 3. St. 17. R. 2. 6. Nevertheless against the tenor of the said Statutes and other the good Laws and Statutes of your Realm to that end provided divers of your Subjects have of late béen imprisoned without any cause shewed And when for their deliverance they were brought before your Iustices by your Majesties Writs of Habeas corpus there to undergo and receive as the Court should order and their Kéepers commanded to certifie the causes of their detainer no cause was certified but that they were detained by your Majesties special command signified by the Lords of your Privy Councel and yet were returned back to several Prisons without being charged with any thing to which they might make answer according to the Law 25. Ed. 3. 9. And whereas of late great Companies of Souldiers and Mariners have béen dispersed into divers Counties of the Realm and the Inhabitants against their wills have béen compelled to receive them into their houses and there to suffer them to sojourn against the Laws and Customs of this Realm and to the great grievance and vexation of the People 25. Ed. 3. 9. And whereas also by Authority of Parliament in the five and twentieth year of the raign of King Edward the third it is declared and Enacted That no man should be fore-judged of life or limb against the form of the Great Charter and Law of the Land 9. H. 3. 28. 25. Ed 3. 4. 28. Ed. 3. 3 And by the said Great Charter and other the Laws and Statutes of this your Realm no man ought to be adjudged to death but by the Laws established in this your Realm either by the Customs of the same Realm or by Acts of Parliament And whereas no offendor of what kinde soever is exempted from the procéedings to be used and punishments to be inflicted by the Laws and Statutes of this your Realm Nevertheless of late divers Commissions under your Majesties great Seal have issued forth by which certain persons have béen assigned and appointed Commissioners with power and authority to procéed within the Land according to the Iustice of Martial Law against such Souldiers and Mariners or other dissolute persons joyning with them as should commit any Murther Robbery Felony Mutiny
Walls or before any Noblemens Houses Buildings or Walls or before any other publick houses Buildings or places whatsoever respectively And be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That from and after the first day of May No Barrels Tymber coaches or other things to be see or mended in the streets The Penalty The duty of the Scavengers Rakers weekly One thousand six hundred sixty and two no person or persons shall Hoop Wash or cleanse any Pipes Barrells or other Casks or Vessels in any the Stréets Lanes or open Passages aforesaid nor shall set out empty Coaches to make or mend or rough Timber or Stones to be sawn or wrought in the Stréets on the Penalty of twenty shillings for every Offence And be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That the Rakers Scavengers or other Officers thereunto appointed every day in the Wéek except Sundayes and other Holidayes shall bring or cause to be brought Carts Dung-pots or other fitting Carriages into all Stréets and places within their respective Wards Parishes Charges and Divisions where such Carts or Carriages can pass and at or before their approach by a Bell Horn Clapper or otherwise shall make distinct and loud noise and give notice to the Inhabitants of their coming and make the like noise and give the like notice in every Court Alley or Place into which the said Carts cannot pass and abide and stay there a convenient time in such sort that all persons concerned may bring forth their respective Ashes Dust Dirt Filth and Soil to the respective Carts or Carriages so staying as aforesaid all which the said Rakers Scavengers or other Officers aforesaid shall daily carry or cause to be carried away upon pain to forfeit forty shillings for every offence or neglect respectively And be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That all the open Stréets All open streets to be paved and so kept by the several housholders Lanes and Alleyes within the said Cities and Places aforesaid excepting only the new Paving of such Stréets and Places for which any of the Inhabitants have contributed and paid their respective Proportions to the Commissioners before named according to the rates aforesaid shall be forthwith sufficiently repaired or Paved and from time to time hereafter maintained and kept sufficiently repaired or Paved at the costs and charges of the Housholders in the same Stréets Lanes and Alleys respectively in manner following that is to say every of the said Housholders to repair and pave and to kéep repaired and paved the Stréets Lanes or Alleys before his house and so far as his housing Walls or Building extend unto the Channel or middle of the same Stréet Lane or Alley upon pain to forfeit Twenty shillings for every Perch or Rod and after that Rate for a greater or lesser quantity for every Default The penalty for not paving and of Twenty shillings a wéek for every wéek after untill the same shall be sufficiently paved and amended Provided alwayes That such ancient Stréets Lanes and Alleys within the said Cities Proviso for the Borough of Southwark or either of them the Suburbs and Liberties thereof and Borough of Southwark as by custom and usage have béen repaired and paved in other manner shall be hereafter repaired paved and maintained in such sort and manner and by such person and persons as have heretofore used to repair pave and maintain the same under the penalties aforesaid Any thing in this Act contained to the contrary thereof in any wise notwithstanding And be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid Candles or lights to be hung out every night from Michaelmas to Lady-day That every housholder within the said Cities the Suburbs and Liberties thereof and in all other the places aforesaid whose house adjoyns unto and is next the stréet from Michaelmas untill our Lady-day yearly shall every night set or hang out Candles or Lights in Lanthorns or otherwise in some part of his house next the Stréet to enlighten the same for Passengers from such time as it shall grow dark untill nine of the Clock in the Evening upon pain to forfeit the sum of one shilling for every default Who may convict persons offending and upon view or otherwise levy the penalties by this Act. And for the more speedy Reformation and punishment of all and every the offences aforesaid Be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That every one of his Majesties Iustices of either Bench and Barons of his Exchequer and every Iustice of Peace of the said Cities of London and Westminster and places aforesaid within their several limits respectively shall have power and Authority upon his own knowledg or view confession of the party or proof of one credible witness upon Oath before him which oath by vertue of this Act such Iustice shall have power to administer to convict any person or persons of any the offences aforesaid whereby such person or persons so convict shall incur the Penalties and forfeitures aforesaid one moyety whereof shall be disposed and imployed for and towards the reparation paving and cleansing of the stréet or place where the offence shall be committed and as much or all of the other moyety as the Iustice shall think fit for him or them that shall discover and prosecute the same in case the said conviction be by such discovery and prosecution and if the conviction be by the view or knowledg of such Iustices then the said whole penalty to go and be imployed for and towards the repairing paving and cleansing of the said stréets or place and shall be levied by distress and sale of the Goods and Chattels of the offender by Warrant under the hand and seal of any such Iustice to be directed to the Constable or any other Officer of the same Parish rendring the surplusage to the party and in default of distress or not payment of the said penalties within six dayes after demand thereof or notice in writing left at the house or dwelling place of the offender by the said Constable or any other Officer the said offender not being a Péer of this Realm shall be committed to the Common Goal of the said County or City respectively by the Warrant of any such Iustice under his hand and Seal there to remain without Bail or Mainprize untill payment And for the better raising and levying of moneyes to defray the charges and pay the Wages of the said Scavengers Rakers or other Officers imployed in cleansing of the Stréets Lanes Alleyes and other places aforesaid and carrying of the said ashes dirt filth and soil Be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid Rates and taxes to be made for defraying the charges and wages of Scavengers and others That within the City of London and Liberties thereof the Scavengers Rakers and such like Officers shall be elected and the Rates Taxes and Assesments for Scavengers Rakers and such like Officers wages for cleansing the
used by Act of Parliament holden in the said first year of the said late Quéen 2 El. cap. 2. Entituled An Act for the Uniformity of Common Prayer and Service in the Church and Administration of the Sacraments very comfortable to all good people desirous to live in Christian conversation and most profitable to the Estate of this Realm upon the which the Mercy Favour and Blessing of Almighty God is in no wise so readily and plentifully poured as by Common Prayers due using of the Sacraments and often Preaching of the Gospel with Devotion of the Hearers And yet this notwithstanding a great number of people in divers parts of this Realm following their own sensuality and living without knowledg and due fear of God do Wilfully Schismatically abstain and refuse to come to their Parish-Churches and other publick places where Common Prayer Administration of the Sacraments and preaching of the Word of God is used upon the Sundays and other days ordained and appointed to be kept and observed as Holy-days And whereas by the great and scandalous neglect of Ministers in using the said Order or Liturgy so set forth and enjoyned as aforesaid great mischiefs and inconveniences during the times of the late unhappy Troubles have arisen and grown and many people have béen led into Factions and Schisms to the great decay and scandal of the Reformed Religion of the Church of England and to the hazard of many souls For prevention whereof in time to come for setling the Peace of the Church and for allaying the present distempers which the indisposition of the time hath contracted The Kings Declaration and Commission for reviewing the Book of Common Prayer and Alterations to be propounded therein The Kings Majesty according to his Declaration of the Five and twentieth of October One thousand six hundred and sixty granted his Commission under the Great Seal of England to several Bishops and other Divines to review the Book of Common Prayer and to prepare such Alterations and Additions as they thought fit to offer And afterwards the Convocations of both the Provinces of Canterbury and York being by His Majesty called and assembled and now sitting His Majesty hath béen pleased to Authorize and require the Presidents of the said Convocations and other the Bishops and Clergy of the same to re-view the said Book of Common Prayer and the Book of the Form and manner of the Making and Consecrating of Bishops Priests and Deacons And that after mature consideration they should make such Additions and Alterations in the said Books respectively as to them should séem méet and convenient And should exhibit and present the same to his Majesty in writing for his further allowance or confirmation since which time upon full and mature deliberation they the said Presidents Bishops and Clergy of both Provinces have accordingly re-viewed the said Books and have made some Alterations which they think fit to be inserted to the same and some Additional Prayers to the said Book of Common Prayer to be used upon proper and emergent occasions And have exhibited and presented the same unto his Majesty in writing in one Book Entituled The Book of Common Prayer and Administration of the Sacraments and other Rites and Ceremonies of the Church according to the use of the Church of England together with the Psalter or Psalms of David Pointed as they are to be sung or said in Churches and the Form and Manner of Making Ordaining and Consecrating of Bishops Priests and Deacons All which His Majesty having duly considered hath fully approved and allowed the same and recommended to this present Parliament that the said Books of Common Prayer and of the Form of Ordination and Consecration of Bishops Priests and Deacons with the Alterations and Additions which have béen so made and presented to His Majesty by the said Convocations be the Book which shall be appointed to be used by all that Officiate in all Cathedral and Collegiate Churches and Chappels and in all Chappels of Colledges and Halls in both the Vniversities and the Colledges of Eaton and Winchester and in all Parish-Churches and Chappels within the Kingdom of England Dominion of Wales and Town of Berwick upon Tweed and by all that Make or Consecrate Bishops Priests or Deacons in any of the said places under such Sanctions and Penalties as the Houses of Parliament shall think fit Now in regard that nothing conduceth more to the setling of the Peace of this Nation which is desired of all good men nor to the honour of our Religion and the propagation thereof The Peace and Honour of Religion much advanced by Vniform agreement in the Publique Worship of God then an Vniversal argréement in the publique Worship of Almighty God and to the intent that every person within this Realm may certainly know the rule to which he is to conform in Publique Worship and Administrations of Sacraments and other Rites and Ceremonies of the Church of England and the manner how and by whom Bishops Priests and Deacons are and ought to be Made Ordained Consecrated Be it Enacted by the Kings most Excellent Majesty by the Advice and with the Consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal and of the Commons in this present Parliament assembled and by the Authority of the same That all and singular Ministers in any Cathedral Collegiate or Parish-Church or Chappel or other place of Publique Worship within this Realm of England Dominion of Wales and Town of Berwick upon Tweed The Book of Common Prayer shall be used shall be bound to say and use the Morning Prayer Evening Prayer Celebration and Administration of both the Sacraments and all other the Publique and Common Prayer in such order and form as is mentioned in the said Book annexed and ioyned to this present Act and Entituled The Book of Common Prayer and Administration of the Sacraments and other Rites and Ceremonies of the Church according to the use of the Church of England together with the Psalter or Psalms of David Pointed as they are to be sung or said in Churches and the form or manner of Making Ordaining and Consecrating of Bishops Priests and Deacons And that the Morning and Evening Prayers therein contained shall upon every Lords Day and upon all other dayes and occasions and at the times therein appointed be openly and solemnly Read by all and every Minister or Curate in every Church Chappel or other place of publique Worship within this Realm of England All Parsons Vicars and Ministers to read and declare their assent to use the same and places aforesaid And to the end that Vniformity in the publique Worship of God which is so much desired may be spéedily effected Be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That every Parson Vicar or other Minister whatsoever who now hath and enjoyeth any Ecclesiastical Benefite or Promotion within this Realm of England or places aforesaid shall in the Church Chappel or place of publique
Goal of the same County City or Town Corporate accordingly Provided alwayes and be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid Common Prayer to be read before every Lecture and the Lecturer to be present That at all and every time and times when any Sermon or Lecture is to be Preached the Common Prayers and Service in and by the said Book appointed to be Read for that time of the day shall be openly publickly and solemnly Read by some Priest or Deacon in the Church Chappel or place of Publick Worship where the said Sermon or Lecture is to be Preached before such Sermon or Lecture be preached And that the Lecturer then to Preach shall be present at the Reading thereof Provided nevertheless That this Act shall not extend to the Vniversity Churches Proviso for Sermons and Lectures in the Vniversities in the Vniversities of this Realm or either of them when or at such times as any Sermon or Lecture is Preached or Read in the said Churches or any of them for or as the publick Vniversity Sermon or Lecture but that the same Sermons and Lectures may be preached or read in such sort and manner as the same have béen heretofore preached or read this Act or any thing herein contained to the contrary thereof in any wise notwithstanding And be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That the several good Laws The Lawes and Statutes formerly made for Vniformity of Common Prayer confirmed and to be executed for punishing offendors against this Law and Statutes of this Realm which have béen formerly made and are now in force for the Vniformity of Prayer and Administration of the Sacraments within this Realm of England and places aforesaid shall stand in full force and strength to all intents and purposes whatsoever for the establishing and confirming of the said Book Intituled The Book of Common Prayer and Administration of the Sacraments and other Rites and Ceremonies of the Church according to the use of the Church of England together with the Psalter or Psalms of David pointed as they are to be sung or said in Churches and the form or manner of Making Ordaining and Consecrating of Bishops Priests and Deacons herein before mentioned to be joyned and annexed to this Act and shall be applied practised and put in ure for the punishing of all offences contrary to the said Lawes with relation to the Book aforesaid and no other Provided alwayes and be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid Letanies and Collects relating to the King Queen c. That in all those Prayers Letanies and Collects which do any way relate to the King Quéen or Royal Progeny the Names be altered and changed from time to time and fitted to the present occasion according to the direction of lawful Authority True printed Copies of the Book of Common Prayer to be provâ—ded in all Parishes and Churches Provided also and be it Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That a true Printed Copy of the said Book Entituled The Book of Common Prayer and Administration of the Sacraments and other Rites and Ceremonies of the Church according to the use of the Church of England together with the Psalter or Psalms of David pointed as they are to be sung or said in Churches and the form and manner of Making Ordaining and Consecrating of Bishops Priests and Deacons shall at the costs and charges of the Parishioners of every Parish-Church and Chappelry Cathedral Church Colledg and Hall be attained and gotten before the Feast-day of St. Bartholomew in the year of our Lord One thousand six hundred sixty and two upon pain of forfeiture of thrée pounds by the moneth for so long time as they shall then after be unprovided thereof by every Parish or Chappelry Cathedral Church Colledge and Hall making default therein Proviso for the Bishops of Hereford St. Davies Asaph Bangor Landaff Provided alwayes and be it enacted by the Authority aforesaid That the Bishops of Hereford St. Davies Asaph Bangoâ— and Landaff and their Successors shall take such order among themselves for the souls health of the Flocks committed to their Charge within Wales That the Book hereunto annexed be truly and exactly Translated into the Brittish or Welsh Tongue and that the same so Translated and being by them or any thrée of them at the least viewed perused and allowed be Imprinted to such number at least so that one of the said Books so Translated and Imprinted may be had for every Cathedral Collegiate and Parish Church and Chappel of Ease in the said respective Diocesses and places in Wales where the Welsh is commonly spoken or used before the First day of May One thousand six hundred sixty five And that from and after the Imprinting and publishing of the said Book so Translated the whole Divine Service shall be used and said by the Ministers and Curates throughout all Wales within the said Diocesses where the Welsh Tongue is commonly used in the Brittish or Welsh Tongue in such manner and form as is prescribed according to the Book hereunto annexed to be used in the English Tongue differing nothing in any order or form from the said English Book for which Book so Translated and Imprinted the Church-Wardens of every the said Parishes shall pay out of the Parish-money in their hands for the use of the respective Churches and be allowed the same on their Accompt And that the said Bishops and their Successors or any thrée of them at the least shall set and appoint the price for which the said Book shall be sold And one other Book of Common Prayer in the English Tongue shall be bought and had in every Church throughout Wales in which the Book of Common Prayer in Welsh is to be had by force of this Act before the First day of May One thousand six hundred sixty and four and the same Book to remain in such convenient places within the said Churches that such as understand them may resort at all convenient times to read and peruse the same and also such as do not understand the said Language may be conferring both Tongues together the sooner attain to the knowledg of the English Tongue Any thing in this Act to the contrary notwithstanding and until Printed Copies of the said Book so to be Translated may be had and provided The Form of Common Prayer established by Parliament before the making of this Act shall be used as formerly in such parts of Wales where the English Tongue is not commonly understood And to the end that the true and perfect Copies of this Act and the said Book hereunto annexed may be safely kept and perpetually preserved and for the avoiding of all disputes for the time to come True and perfect Copies of this Act and the Book of Common Prayer by whom and how to be had and kept Be it therefore Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That the respective Deans and Chapters of Every Cathedral or
Collegiate Church within England and Wales shall at their proper costs and charges before the Twenty fifth day of December One thousand six hundred sixty two obtain under the Great Seal of England a true and perfect printed Copy of this Act and of the said Book annexed hereunto to be by the said Deans and Chapters and their Successors kept and preserved in safety for ever and to be also produced and shewed forth in any Court of Record as often as they shall be thereunto lawfully required And also there shall be delivered true and perfect Copies of this Act and of the same Book into the respective Courts at Westminster and into the Tower of London to be kept and preserved for ever among the Records of the said Courts and the Records of the Tower to be also produced and shewed forth in any Court as néed shall require which said Books so to be exemplified under the Great Seal of England shall be examined by such persons as the Kings Majesty shall appoint under the Great Seal of England for that purpose and shall be compared with the Original Book hereunto annexed and shall have power to correct and amend in writing any Error committed by the Printer in the Printing of the same Book or of any thing therein contained and shall certifie in writing under their Hands and Seals or the hands and seals of any thrée of them at the end of the same Book that they have examined and compared the same Book and find it to be a true and perfect Copy which said Books and every one of them so exemplified under the Great Seal of England as aforesaid shall be déemed taken adjudged and expounded to be good and available in the Law to all intents and purposes whatsoever and shall be accounted as good Records as this Book it self hereunto annexed Any Law or Custome to the contrary in any wise notwithstanding Proviso for the Kings Professor of Law in Oxford Provided also That this Act or any thing therein contained shall not be prejudicial or hurtful unto the Kings Professor of the Law within the Vniversity of Oxford for or concerning the Prebend of Shipton within the Cathedral Church of Sarum united and annexed unto the place of the same Kings Professor for the time being by the late King James of blessed memory Provided alwayes Proviso concerning the 3â—th Article agreed in the Convocation Anno 1562. That whereas the Six and thirtieth Article of the Nine and thirty Articles agréed upon by the Archbishops and Bishops of both Provinces and the whole Clergy holden at London in the year of our Lord One thousand five hundred sixty two for the avoiding of diversities of Opinions and for establishing of consent touching true Religion is in these words following viz. That the Book of Consecration of Archbishops and Bishops and Ordaining of Priests and Deacons lately set forth in the time of King Edward the Sixth and confirmed at the same time by Authority of Parliament doth contain all things necessary to such Consecration and Ordaining neither hath it any thing that of it self is superstitious and ungodly And therefore whosoever are Consecrated or Ordered according to the Rites of that Book since the second year of the aforenamed King Edward unto this time or hereafter shall be Consecrated or Ordered according to the same Rites We decree all such to be rightly orderly and lawfully Consecrated and Ordered It be Enacted And be it therefore Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That all Subscriptions hereafter to be had or made unto the said Articles by any Deacon Priest or Ecclesiastical person or other person whatsoever who by this Act or any other Law now in force is required to subscribe unto the said Articles shall be construed and be taken to extend and shall be applied for and touching the said Six and thirtieth Article unto the Book containing the form and manner of Making Ordaining and Consecrating of Bishops Priests and Deacons in this Act mentioned in such sort and manner as the same did heretofore extend unto the Book set forth in the time of King Edward the Sixth mentioned in the said Six and thirtieth Article Any thing in the said Article or in any Statute Act or Canon heretofore had or made to the contrary thereof in any wise notwithstanding Provided also That the Book of Common Prayer The Common Prayer used by Authority of Parliament 1. Eliz. to be used untill Bartholomew Day 1662. EXP. and Administration of the Sacraments and other Rites and Ceremonies of this Church of England together with the form and manner of Ordaining and Consecrating Bishops Priests and Deacons heretofore in use and respectively established by Act of Parliament in the First and Eighth years of Quéen Elizabeth shall be still used and observed in the Church of England until the Feast of St. Bartholomew which shall be in the year of our Lord God One thousand six hundred sixty and two EXP. as to this last Clause CAP. V. For Regulating the Making of Stuffs in Norfolk and Norwich WHereas divers abuses and deceipts have of late years béen had and used in the making of Worsteds and other Stuffs commonly called Norwich Stuffs and in the Réeling of Yarnes whereof the said Stuffs are either wholly or in part made which tends to the debasing of the said Manufacture unto the prejudice of the publique which said Trade of Weaving of Stuffs hath of late times béen very much increased and great variety of new sorts of Stuffs have béen invented 7 E. 4. cap. 1. so that the Power given by the Statute of the Seventh of Edward the Fourth Chapter the First is not sufficient for the Regulating of the same And that the number of the Wardens by the same Act appointed being but Eight are too few for the Governing and Ordering the same Trade by which means the same Manufacture will soon be lost if not prevented and carried into forreign Nations to the great diminution of His Majesties Customs and turning out of the work many thousands of poor people For prevention of which abuses deceipts and evils The number of Wardens and Assistants of Master Weavers in Norwich how and when to be chosen It is Enacted by the Kings most Excellent Majesty with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal and Commons Assembled in Parliament and by the Authority of the same That there shall be Twelve Wardens and Thirty Assistants all which are to be Master-Weavers within the County of the City of Norwich and County of Norfolk sir of which said Wardens and fiftéen of the said Assistants shall be chosen the first Monday after Pentecost in the year of our Lord God One thousand six hundred sixty and two and from thenceforth yearly and every year on the next Monday after Pentecost at some publique place by the Master-Weavers or the greater part of them present of the said City and County of Norwich And the other six
or Assessments shall not excéed in the whole above the sum of Six pence in the pound in any one year according to the real value of the same and Twenty pounds in Money Goods Stock or other personal Estate shall be rated equally to Twenty shillings a year in Lands And every such Assessment so made shall within Six days after be presented to some Iustice of the Peace near adjoyning to the Parish where it is made to be séen allowed and signed by him And after such Allowance every person so Assessed or Taxed that shall not within Twenty days after demand made by the Surveyors or one of them pay such sum or sums of Money Assessed on him or her or them unto the Surveyors or one of them shall forfeit and pay double so much as he she or they are Assessed to pay unless upon complaint made to the said Iustice of wrong done to such person by that Assessment the said Iustice shall think fit to alter the same And in case where common Nusances are in High-ways or where Ditches or Water-courses adjoyning unto High-ways are not scoured and dressed the said Surveyors shall sée the same reformed and the offenders punished according to Law deducting out of the Moneys so to be raised his reasonable Charges for prosecution And for the more effectual Mending the High-ways and Parish-Bridges and Stréets the Surveyors aforementioned shall yearly at the most convenient and fitting time betwéen the First of May and the last of August hire labourers Work-men Carts and Carriages for Amending the High-ways Stréets Parish-Bridges aforesaid and Water-courses and shall cause them to be well and sufficiently mended The Surveyors may charge Carts and Work-men And for the better effecting thereof Be it Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That the said Surveyors or any of them within their several Limits and Iurisdictions may yearly as he shall see cause and néed require direct and appoint every person and persons who by the former Laws and Statutes of this Realm are chargeable with Wayn or Cart 2 3. Ph. Mar. ca. 8. 5 El. ca 13. 18 El. ca. 10. to the amending of the High-ways and every other person and persons chargeable to come to labour at the said ways to send his or her Cart or Wayn and Team so furnished as by the Laws is directed or to come and work for the amending of the High-ways for so many days as by the Laws are appointed or for so many of them as the said Surveyors shall think néedful and appoint for which Teams work and labour the said Surveyors shall pay unto such workmen and Owner of such Teams Carts and Wayns according to the usual rate of the Countrey for such work as they shall do over and above what by the other Laws made for the amending the High-ways they are appointed to do And if any question shall arise about the value or worth of such work or labour for Man or Teams some Iustice of the Peace near adjoyning and not living in the said Parish shall determine what is fit to be allowed for such work Penaly upon such as refuse or neglect And in case any person so charged to send his or her Team to work as aforesaid shall refuse or neglect to do so such person so refusing or neglecting shall forfeit ten shillings for every day that he or she shall make such default and every Labourer Eightéen pence for such day that he neglects to work as aforesaid Provided That no person or persons occupying any Lands shall be Assessed and Taxed both for the said Lands and the Stock which he or they shall use or imploy upon the same In what cases High-ways may be Enlarged out of mens lands next adjoyning And be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That it shall and may be lawful to and for the said Surveyors of the High-ways for the time being of every such Parish Town Village or Hamlet within their several Precincts from time to time by order from the Quarter-Sessions and upon the view and by the allowance or consent of two or more Iustices of the Peace of the County Authorized thereunto by the Sessions wherein such Parish Town Village or Hamlet shall lie under their hands and seals in writing where any common or publick High-way is not of the breadth of eight yards from the shoars and brinks of the Ditches on either side or from the banks and hedges where there are no Ditches to assign and lay out so much of any mans several Lands next adjoyning to the said Common and publick High-way where they shall think it néedful and it may conveniently be done as shall enlarge the said way to be the full breadth of eight yards or so much broader toward the bredth of eight yards then now it is as conveniently the place will bear from the said shoars Ditches Banks or hedges by the consent of the Owner or Owners of the said lands according to his or their respective interests therein or otherwise by order of the Iustices of Peace at their Quarter-Sessions after a Writ of Ad quod damnum first issued out and returned to assign and lay out a more new and commodious way in and over the said lands next or near adjoyning to the said common and publick High-ways the said Surveyors first giving such satisfaction for the said ground unto the respective owners of the same according to their several and respective Interest in the whole not excéeding Twenty years purchase Provided always That if any common or publick High-way or ways shall be so altered and changed as is aforesaid that then and in such case the same new Way or Ways as also any new Way or ways altered or to be altered by a Writ of Ad quod damnum shall from time to time be repaired and amended by such Parish or Parishes Town Hamlet or Village or by such person and persons and in such manner and form as the said old and former common or publick High-way or ways was or were to be repaired and amended Digging for gravel in wasts and Commons And be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That where there is not sufficient Gravel Chalke Sand Cinders or Stones within any Parish Town Village or Hamlet to repair their common and publick High-ways it shal be lawful for the Surveyor and Surveyors and such person and persons as he or they shall appoint upon the allowance and approbation of any two Iustices of Peace within the said County to digg take and carry away Gravel Chalk Sand Cinders or Stones out of the Waste and Common of any Neighbouring Parish Town Village or Hamlet or upon the Sea-Coast without paying any thing for the same for the repairing and amending of the High-ways aforesaid so as they fill up the place within one moneth next ensuing if required by the Owner of the Soyl. Provided always and be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid
Government Books belonging to particular persons nor any Book or Books the right of Printing whereof doth solely and properly belong to any particular person or persons without his or their Consent first obtained in that behalf Every Licenser shall have a written copy of the Book licenced And be it Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That every person and persons who by vertue of this present Act are or shall be appointed or authorized to License the Imprinting of Books or Reprinting thereof with any Additions or Amendments as aforesaid shall have one written Copy of the same Book or Books which shall be so Licensed to be Imprinted or Reprinted with the Titles Epistles Prefaces Tables Dedications and all other things whatsoever thereunto annexed How and where the said Copy shall be kept which said Copy shall be delivered by such Licenser or Licensers to the Printer or Owner for the Imprinting thereof and shall be solely and intirely returned by such Printer or owner after the Imprinting thereof unto such Licenser or Licensers to be kept in the publick Registries of the said Lord Archbishop or Lord Bishop of London respectively or in the Office of the Chancellor or Vice-Chancellor of either the said Vniversities or with the said Lord Chancellor or Lord Kéeper of the great Seal for the time being English Books how to be Licensed or Lords Chief Iustices or Chief Baron or one of them or the said Principal Secretaries of State or with the Earl Marshal or the said Kings of Armes or one of them of all such Books as shall be Licensed by them respectively And if such Book so to be Licensed shall be an English Book or of the English Tongue there shall be two Written Copies thereof delivered to the Licenser or Licensers if he or they shall so require one Copy whereof so Licensed shall be delivered back to the said Printer or Owner and the other Copy shall be reserved and kept as is aforesaid to the end such Licenser or Licensers may be secured that the Copy so Licensed shall not be altered without his or their privity And upon the said Copy Licensed to be Imprinted he or they who shall so License the same shall Testifie under his or their hand or hands That there is not any thing in the same contained that is contrary to the Christian Faith or the Doctrine or Discipline of the Church of England or against the State or Government of this Realm or contrary to good life or good manners or otherwise as the nature and subject of the Work shall require which License or Approbation shall be Printed in the beginning of the same Book with the Name or Names of him or them that shall Authorize or License the same All Books from beyond Sea shall be brought to the Port of London only for a Testimony of the allowance thereof And be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That every Merchant of Books and person and persons whatsoever who doth or hereafter shall Import or bring any Book or Books into this Realm from any parts beyond the Seas shall Import the same in the Port of London only and not elsewhere without the special License of the Archbishop of Canterbury and Bishop of London for the time being or one of them who are hereby authorized to grant Licenses for that purpose and shall before such time as the same Book or Books or any of them be delivered forth or out of his or their hand or hands or exposed to Sale give and present a true Note or Catalogue in writing of all and every such Book or Books unto the Lord Archbishop of Canterbury and Lord Bishop of London for the time being or to one of them and no Merchant or other person or persons whatsoever which shall import or bring any Book or Books into the Port of London aforesaid from any parts beyond the Seas shall presume to open any Dry-Fats Bales And not to be opened or uttered until viewed by the Archbishop of Canterbury Bishop of London or some other by one of them appointed Packs Maunds or other Fardles of Books or wherein Books are nor shall any Searcher Waiter or other Officer belonging to the Custom-house upon pain of losing his or their place or places suffer the same to pass or to be delivered out of his or their hands or Custody before such time as the Lord Archbishop of Canterbury and the Lord Bishop of London for the time being or one of them shall have appointed some Scholar or learned man with one or more of the said Company of Stationers and such others as they shall call to their Assistance to be present at the opening thereof and to view the same And if there shall happen to be found any Heretical Seditious Scandalous Schismatical or other dangerous or offensive Book or Books or any part of such Book or Books Printed in English they shall forthwith be brought to the said Lord Archbishop of Canterbury and Lord Bishop of London for the time being or to one of them or to some publick place to be assigned and chosen by the said Lord Archbishop Hereticall Seditious or dangerous Books Imprinted upon ported how to be proceeded upon and Lord Bishop for the time being to the end the person and persons which Importeth or causeth the said Offensive Books to be Imported may be procéeded against as an offender against this present Act And also that such further course may be taken concerning the same offensive Book or Books as by the said Lord Archbishop and Bishop for the time being shall be thought fitting for the suppressing thereof And be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That no person or persons shall within this Kingdom or elsewhere Imprint or cause to be Imprinted nor shall Import or bring in or cause to be Imported or brought into this Kingdom from or out of any other His Majesties Dominions nor from any other parts beyond the Seas any Copy or Copies Book or Books or part of any Book or Books or Forms of blank Bills or Indentures for any His Majesties Islands Printed beyond the Seas or elsewhere Copies of Books Forms of blank Bills or Indenturs whereof any have Letters Patents for sole Printing which any person or persons by force or vertue of any Letters Patents granted or assigned or which shall hereafter be granted or assigned to him or them or where the same are not granted by any Letters Patents by force or vertue of any Entry or Entries thereof duly made or to be made in the Register Book of the said Company of Stationers or in the Register Book of either of the Vniversities respectively have or shal have the right Priviledge Authority or Allowance solely to Print without the consent of the Owner or Owners of such Book or Books Copy or Copies Form or Forms of such blank Bills nor shall Binde Stitch or put to Sale any such Book or Books or
beyond the Seas any Letters Founded or Cast nor shall buy any such Letters for Printing Printing-Presses or other Materials belonging unto Printing unless he or they respectively shall first acquaint the said Master and Wardens of the said Company of Stationers for the time being or some or one of them for whom the same Presses Iron-work or Letters are to be made forged cast brought or imported upon pain that every person who shal erect any such Printing-Press or shal demise or let any House or Room or suffer the same to be held or used and every person who shall make any Printing-Press or any Iron-work for a Printing-Press or shall make import or buy any Letters for Printing without giving notice as aforesaid shall forfeit for every such offence the sum of Five pounds the one Moyety whereof shal be to the use of our Soveraign Lord the King His Heirs and Successors and the other Moyety to the use of such person or persons as shall sue for the same Who and how many shall be Master Printers And be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That for the time to come no man shall be admitted to be a Master-Printer until they who are now actually Master-Printers shall be by death or otherwise reduced to the number of Twenty and from thenceforth the number of Twenty Master-Printers shall be continued and no more besides the Kings Printers and the Printers allowed for the Vniversities to have the use and exercise of Printing of Books at one time and but Four Master Founders of Letters for Printing The which said Master-Printers and Four Master Founders of Letters for Printing shall be nominated appointed and allowed by the Lord Archbishop of Canterbury and Lord Bishop of London for the time being And in case of Death of any one of the said Four Master Founders of Letters or of the said Master Printers or of Forfeiture or avoidance of any of their places and priviledges to Print by vertue of this Act Master Founders of letters for Printing for any Offence contrary to the same or otherwise That then the Lord Archbishop of Canterbury and Lord Bishop London for the time being or one of them shall nominate and appoint such other fit person or persons to succéed and supply the place of such Master Printer or Founder of Letters as shall be void by Death Forfeiture or otherwise as aforesaid And every person and persons which shall hereafter be allowed or permitted to have the use of a Printing-Press or Printing-House upon or before such his allowance obtained shall become bound with Sureties to his Majesty in the Court of Kings-Bench or before some one or more of the Iustices of Assize or the Iustices of the Peace at their several Quarter-Sessions in the sum of Thrée hundred pounds not to print or suffer to be printed in his house or press any Book or Books whatsoever but such as shall from time to time be lawfully Licensed And be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid Who only may keep above two Printing-Presses That none of the said Master Printers so to be allowed from time to time as aforesaid shall kéep above Two Printing-Presses at once unlesse he hath béen Master or Vpper-Warden of the Company who are hereby allowed to kéep Thrée Presses and no more unless for some great and special occasion for the Publique he or they have for a time leave of the said Lord Archbishop of Canterbury or Lord Bishop of London for the time being or to have or use one or more above the aforesaid Number as their Lordships or either of them shall think fit And be it also Enacted by the Authority aforesaid What number of Apprentices they may retain That no Printer or Printers Except the Kings Printers nor Founder or Founders of Letters for printing shall take or retain any more or greater number of Apprentices then is herein after limited and appointed that is to say Every Master Printer and Master Founder of Letters for Printing that is or hath béen Master or Vpper Warden of his Company may have thrée Apprentices at one time and no more And every Master Printer and Master Founder of Letters for Printing that is of the Livery of his Company may have two Apprentices at one time and no more And every Master Printer and Master Founder of Letters for printing of the Yeomanry of his Company may have one Apprentice at one time and no more neither by Copartnership binding at the Scriveners nor any other way whatsoever Neither shall it be lawful for any Master Printer or Master Founder of Letters when any Apprentice or Apprentices shall run or be put away to take another Apprentice or other Apprentices in his or their place or places unless the name or names of him or them so gone away be rased out of the Hall-Book and never admitted again And because a great part of the secret printing in corners hath béen caused for want of Orderly Imployment for Iourneymen-Printers The said several Master Printers Iourney-men Printers and Founders of Letters to be imployed and Master Founders of Letters for printing so to be allowed as aforesaid are hereby required to take special Care that all Iourney-men-Printers and Iourney-men-Founders of Letters for printing who are lawfully Frée of the said respective Mysteries be set to Work and Imployed in their respective Trades And if any such Iourney-man-Printer or Iourney-man-Founder of Letters being of honest and good behaviour and able in his Trade do want Imployment he shall repair to any of the said Master Printers or Master Founders of Letters respectively for the time being who thereupon shall receive him or them into Work If such Master Printer or Master Founder of Letters have not a Iourney-man already although such Master Printer or Master Founder of Letters respectively with his Apprentice or Apprentices be able without the help of the said Iourney-man to discharge his own Work upon pain that every Master Printer and Master Founder of Letters respectively refusing to receive such Iourney-man repairing to him as aforesaid shall forfeit Five pounds to be recovered by Bill Plaint or Information in any Court of Record wherein no Essoign Wager at Law Priviledge or Protection shall be admitted the Moyety of which Forfeiture shall go to the Kings Majesty his Heirs and Successors and the other Moyety to the Informer who shall sue for the same within six moneths next after the said offence committed And if any Iourney-man or Iourney-men Printers or Founders of Letters for printing shall refuse imployment being offered to him or them by any Master Printer or Master Founder of Letters respectively or neglect it when he or they have undertaken it he or they so refusing or neglecting shall suffer Thrée moneths Imprisonment at the least without Bail or Mainprize upon Conviction of such his said refusal or neglect by two Witnesses before any one or more Iustice or Iustices of the Peace who
are hereby impowered to hear and examine the said Offence and to commit the said Offender and Offenders to the Common Gaol of the County where he or they shall be apprehended And no Master Printer or Master Founder of Letters for Printing shall from henceforth imploy either to work at the Case or Press or otherwise about his Printing any other person or persons then such only as are English-men and Fréemen or the Sons of Fréemen or Apprentices to the said Trades or Mysteries of Printing or Founding of Letters for Printing respectively And for the better discovering of Printing in Corners without License Be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That one or more of the Messengers of his Majesties Chamber Who may search houses and Shops for suspected Books and Papers by Warrant under his Majesties Sign Manual or under the Hand of one or more of his Majesties Principal Secretaries of State or the Master and Wardens of the said Company of Stationers or any one of them shall have power and authority with a Constable to take unto them such assistance as they shall think néedful and at what time they shall think fit to search all Houses and Shops where they shall know or upon some probable reason suspect any Books or Papers to be printed bound or stitched especially Printing-Houses Book-sellers Shops and Ware-houses and Book-binders Houses and Shops and to view there what is imprinting binding or stitching and to examine whether the same be Licensed and to demand a sight of the said License and if the said Book so imprinting binding or stitching shall not be Licensed then to Seize upon so much thereof as shall be found imprinted together with the several Offenders and to bring them before one or more Iustices of the Peace who are hereby authorized and required to commit such Offenders to prison there to remain until they shall be tried and acquitted or convicted and punished for the said Offences And in case the said Searchers shall upon their said Search find any Book or Books or part of Books unlicensed which they shall suspect to contain matters therein contrary to the Doctrine or Discipline of the Church of England or against the State and Government Then upon such suspition to seise upon such Book or Books or part of Book or Books and to bring the same unto the said Lord Archbishop of Canterbury and Lord Bishop of London for the time being or one of them or to the Secretaries of State or one of them respectively who shall take such further course for the suppressing thereof as to them or any of them shall séem fit And be it Ordained and Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That all and every Printer and Printers of Books Founder and Founders of Letters for Printing and all and every other person and persons working in or for the said Trades Offenders against this Act how to be punished who from and after the Tenth day of June in in the year One thousand six hundred sixty and two shall offend against this present Act or any Article Clause or Thing herein contained and shall be thereof Convicted by Verdict Confession or otherwise shall for the first offence be dis-enabled from exercising his respective Trade for the space of thrée years and for the second offence shall for ever thence-after be disabled to use or exercise the Art or Mystery of Printing or of Founding Letters for Printing shall also have and receive such further punishment by Fine Imprisonment or other Corporal Punishment not extending to Life or Limb as by the Iustices of the Court of Kings Bench or Iustices of Oyer and Terminer or Iustices of Assize in their several Circuits or Iustices of the Peace in their several Quarter Sessions shall be thought fit to be inflicted The which said Iustices of the Peace in their several Quarter Sessions shall have full power and authority to hear and determine all and every offence and offences that shall be committed against this Act or against any branch thereof upon Indictment or Information by any person or persons to be taken before them in their Sessions of Peace respectively and shall yearly certifie into the Court of Exchequer as in other like Cases they are bound to do the Fines by them imposed for any the offences aforesaid and shall and may also by vertue hereof award process and execution for the taking or punishing such Offenders as in any other Case they lawfully may do by any the Laws and Statutes of this Realm Printed Copies to be sent to his Majesties Library and the two Vniversities And be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That every Printer shall reserve thrée printed Copies of the best and largest Paper of every Book new printed or reprinted by him with Additions and shall before any publick Vending of the said Book bring them to the Master of the Company of Stationers and deliver them to him one whereof shall be delivered to the Kéeper of His Majesties Library and the other two to be sent to the Vice-Chancellors of the two Vniversities respectively for the use of the publick Libraries of the said Vniversities Proviso for the priviledges of the two Vniversities Provided always That nothing in this Act contained shall be construed to extend to the prejudice or infringing of any the just Rights and Priviledges of either of the two Vniversities of this Realm touching and concerning the Licensing or Printing of Books in either of the said Vniversities Peers Houses Provided always That no Search shall be at any time made in the House or Houses of any the Péers of this Realm or of any other person or persons not being frée of or using any of the Trades in this Act before mentioned but by special Warrant from the Kings Majesty under His Sign Manual or under the Hand of one or both of His Majesties Principal Secretaries of State or for any other Books then such as are in printing or shal be printed after the Tenth of June 1662. And thing in this Act to the contrary thereof in any wise notwithstanding Proviso for Book-sellers and Stationers London Provided also That neither this Act nor any thing therein contained shall extend to prohibit any Book-seller who hath served seven years and is frée of the Company of Stationers London from importing or bringing into this Realm any Books ready bound not formerly prohibited which have been printed ten years before the said Importation Any thing in this or any other Act to the contrary notwithstanding Persons selling books in Westminster-Hall Provided also and be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That neither this Act nor any thing therein contained shall be construed to prohibit any person or persons to Sell Books or Papers who have sold Books or Papers within Westminster-Hall the Palace of Westminster or in any Shop or Shops within Twenty yards of the great Gate of Westminster-Hall aforesaid before
shall be néedful for Repairing of the several High-ways and places aforesaid and the said several Surveyors in their respective Counties shall provide Stones Gravel and other materials and necessaries to be used for and towards the Repairing and amending the said High-way at the places aforesaid And the said Surveyors or thrée or more of them in their respective Counties being so met and assembled are hereby authorized to appoint a Receiver or Collector of Toll and such other Officer and Officers as they shall find necessary in their respective Counties for carrying on the said Work with such moderate allowance as shall be thought fit to be approved of by any two or more Iustices of the Peace for the said respective County for which such Officer is so chosen living near to the said High-way or places aforesaid or otherwise to be removed and other fit person or persons to be chosen in his or their places by the said Iustices in the said several and respective Counties And for the better effecting thereof Be it Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That the said Surveyors or any thrée or more of them in their several Counties Charging of Carts and Carriages shall from time to time as they shall sée cause appoint and require all and every person and persons inhabiting within thrée miles of the places aforesaid being within their several and respective Counties who by any Law or Statute of this Realm now in force is or are chargeable to find any Wayn or Cart for the amending of the High-ways and every other person and persons chargeable to labour in the High-ways upon reasonable notice to send his or their Cart or Wain and Team or to come to labour in the said High-way at any the places aforesaid within their respective Counties so furnished as by the Laws and Statutes of this Realm is directed for the amending of other High-ways when and so often as the said Surveyors for their said several Counties Allowance of wages to labourers and owners or any thrée or more of them shall think néedful and appoint for which the said Surveyors shall pay unto such Labourers and to the owners of such Teams Carts and Wayns according to the usual rate of the Countrey And in case any person so charged to send his her or their Team to work as aforesaid shall refuse or neglect so to do such persons so refusing or neglecting The Penalty for refusing shall forfeit Ten shillings for every day that he or they shall make such default and every Labourer Eightéen pence for every day he shall neglect or refuse to work as aforesaid How far and often Carts and carriages may be charged Provided That no person or persons by vertue of this Act be compelled or compellable to labour or to send his or their Team Cart or Waggon for the mending of the said High-way to any of the said places being above Thrée miles distant from his Dwelling-house or not in the same County nor to labour or send his or their Team Cart or Waggon for amending of the said High-way above Thrée days in any one wéek nor at any time in Séed-time Hay or Corn-harvest Who may determine differences about carriages and labourers Wages And in case that any question shall happen to arise touching the hire to be given by the said Surveyors for such Team Cart or Waggon or concerning the wages of such Labourers imployed in mending the said High-ways That then the said Iustices of the Peace in the County where such difference ariseth or any Two or more of them shall and may determine and set down what hire for such Team Cart or Waggon and also what wages to such Labourer shall be paid or allowed by the said Surveyors and such Order in that behalf to be made shall conclude all parties And be further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That where there is not sufficient Gravel Chalk Sand or Stones within any Parish Town Village or Hamlet wherein the said High-way How gravell Chalk Stones c. may be taken or places aforesaid or any of them do lie to repair the said High-way at any of the places aforesaid It shall and may be lawful for the said Surveyors in their several and respective Counties or any thrée or more of them and such person and persons as they shall appoint to dig take and carry away Gravel Chalk Sand or Stones out of the Waste or Common of any neighbouring Parish Town Village or Hamlet without paying any thing for the same for the repairing or amending of the said High-way at any the places aforesaid or where there is not sufficient of such materials in any Common or Waste Ground thereunto near adjoyning to dig in the several grounds of any person or persons not being an House Garden Orchard Yard or Park stored with Déer being within any Parish chargeable towards the repairs of the said High-way and places so to be repaired where any such materials are or may be found And from time to time to carry away such and so much thereof as the said Surveyors or any thrée or more of them in their respective Counties shall adjudge necessary for the said Reparations without paying any thing for such materials saving only such reasonable satisfaction to the Owner or Occupier of the Ground where the same shall be so digged carried away as for the damage he or they shall thereby sustain to be assessed and adjudged by the said Iustices of the County where the same is digged at the next or any other Quarter-Sessions for the said County in case of difference concerning the same And that the Pits and places where and from whence such materials shall be dugg and carried away for the Reparations aforesaid shall with all convenient spéed to be adjudged by the said Iustices of Peace as aforesaid be filled up and levelled with earth or other materials or else rayled about so as that the same may not be déemed dangerous or prejudicial to man or beast And for the defraying of the charge of such Reparations to be done in the places aforesaid Be it further Enacted That from and after the choice of the Surveyors aforesaid it shall and may be lawful to and for the said Surveyors for the time being with such consent and approbation as is aforesaid Who may appoint the taking of Toll or Custom of all carriages and passengers of the said Iustices of the several Counties within their own Counties and not elsewhere to choose and appoint one or more fit person or persons to receive or take such sum or sums of money in the name of Toll or Custom to be paid for all such Horses Carts Coaches Waggons Droves and Gangs of Cattel as in time to come shall pass be led or droven in or through the said way or places aforesaid as are hereafter by this Act limited and appointed that is to say for every Horse one peny for every Coach six
Enacted That all and every person and persons which since the five and twentieth day of March One thousand six hundred sixty and two have acted or done any thing in the dismantling of any Cities or Towns or demolishing of Walls and Fortifications thereof or relating thereunto shall be and are hereby indempnified and saved harmless And whereas some doubt hath arisen upon the said Act what Estates shall be charged with or toward Foot Be it therefore Enacted and Declared by the Authority aforesaid How persons may be charged with arms and for what estates That no person who hath an Estate of the yearly value of two hundred pounds or personal Estate of the value of two thousand four hundred pounds chargeable by the said Act shall be charged with or toward the finding any Foot and it shall be lawful for the respective Lieutenants and Deputies or any three or more of them to charge according to the proportions in the said Act any person who hath an Estate of the yearly value of one hundred pounds and under the yearly value of two hundred pounds or who hath a personal Estate of twelve hundred pounds and under the value of two thousand four hundred pounds chargeable by the said Act with or towards the finding of Foot or toward the finding of Horse as to their judgment shall séem most expedient for his Majesties Service Yet nevertheless this shall not be construed to extend to make any alterations in the provisions in the said or this Act concerning the Forces to be charged or raised in Cities Corporations and Port-Towns Provided always and be it Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That the Lord Warden of the Cinque-Ports to antient Towns and their Members and in his absence The Cinque-Ports his Lieutenant or Lieutenants shall and may put in execution within the said Ports Towns and Members all the Powers and Authorities given and granted by this and the said former Act and to execute and perform all and every the things therein contained in the like manner as the respective Lieutenants of the Counties and their Deputies may do and may kéep up and continue the usual numbers of Souldiers in the said Ports Towns and Members unless they find cause to lessen the same And that the Inhabitants of the said Ports Towns and Members being in regard of their scituation on the Sea-coasts charged with a greater proportion of Arms and Armed men then other parts of the Kingdom shall not be charged with Arms or Armed men in the Counties adjacent for their Estates there lying save only for such proportion as they are lyable unto and either are not or shall not be charged with within the said Ports Towns and Members Any thing in this Act contained to the contrary in any wise notwithstanding St. Martins Parish in Stamford Baron in Lincolnshire Provided always and be it Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That the Inhabitants and Revenues of or in the Parish of Saint Martin called Stamford Baron in the Suburbs of the Borough and Town of Stamford on the South-side of the Waters there called Welland may be Assessed and Charged to find and serve in the Trained Bands of the County of Lincoln as formerly according to the said mentioned Act and this present Act by the Lieutenant and Deputy-Lieutenants for the County of Lincoln for the time being in such manner as any persons or estates within the said County of Lincoln may be by them assessed and charged to the purposes aforesaid And they of Saint Martin aforesaid are hereby declared to be well and legally assessed and charged by the said Lieutenant and Deputy-Lieutenants respectively CAP. V. For Regulating Select Vestries FOr prevention of the evils which may arise from Vestry-men not Conforming to the Government and Discipline of the Church of England as it now is by Law established Be it Enacted by the Kings most Excellent Majesty by the Advice and with the Consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal and of the Commons in this present Parliament Assembled That all and every person who now is a Vestry-man or member of any Vestry within any Parish in the Cities of London and Westminster Borough of Southwark and wéekly Bills of Mortality and in all other Cities Boroughs and Towns Corporate where Select Vestries are used in the Kingdom of England All Vestry-men shall take and subscribe the Declaration in 14 Car. 2. c. 4. on or before the Nine and twentieth day of September next And all and every person who at any time hereafter shall be elected to be a Vestry-man or member of any Vestry within any Parish in any the places aforesaid within one moneth after such his Election shall before the respective Archbishop Bishop or Ordinary Vicar-General or Chancellor of the Diocess make and subscribe the Declaration and Acknowledgment enjoyned in the late wholsom good Act Entituled An Act for the Uniformity of Publick Prayers and Administration of Sacraments and other Rites and Ceremonies and for establishing the Form of Making Ordaining and Consecrating Bishops Priests and Deacons in the Church of England in these words following I A. B. Do declare That it is not lawful upon any pretence whatsoever to take up Arms against the King and that I do abhor that Traiterous Position of taking Arms by His Authority against His Person or against those that are Commissionated by him And that I will conform to the Liturgy of the Church of England as it is now by Law established And I do declare That I do hold there lies no Obligation upon me or on any other person from the Oath commonly called The Solemn League and Covenant to endeavour any change or alteration of Government either in Church or State And that the same was in it self an unlawful Oath and Imposed upon the Subjects of this Realm against the known Laws and Liberties of this Kingdome The penalty And that all and every such person who shall neglect or refuse to do the same within the respective times aforesaid shall ipso facto be deprived of such his place of Vestry-man and of being a Member of such Vestry to all intents and purposes And such place shall be actually void as if such person were naturally dead Any Vsage or Custom to the contrary notwithstanding And that from and after such neglect or refusal it shall be lawful for all persons who shall have right of Election or nomination of such Vestry-man or member of such Vestry to procéed to election or nomination of some other discréet person of the respective Parish in the room of such person so neglecting or refusing as aforesaid And if such person so to be elected in the room of such person so neglecting or refusing as aforesaid shall also neglect or refuse to make and subscribe the said Declaration and Acknowledgment in manner and time aforesaid whereby such place shall again become void or if such persons who shall have right of Election or nomination
shall or may repair to view the same and thereout to take Copies of all such Iudgements and Determinations as shall relate to him her and them And that none of the said Iustices and Barons shall take any Fée or Reward whatsoever directly or indirectly for any thing to be done by them by vertue or colour of this present Act. Officers And be it Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That for a reward of the Officers to be imployed herein A Table of Fees the said Iustices and Barons or any thrée or more of them as aforesaid are hereby enabled to order and direct a Table of such reasonable Fées to be made as may carry on and effect the purport and intent of this Act. This Act to continue till the last day of December which shall be in the year of our Lord One thousand six hundred sixty and eight The continuance of this Act. and no longer Proviso touching the renewing and reversing Orders or Decrees Provided always and be it Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That where any such Order or Decrée as aforesaid shall be made by a lesser number of Iustices and Barons then Seven it shall be lawful for any person agrieved by such Order or Decrée to present his Exceptions to the same in writing within seven days next after such Order or Decrée made to the Chief Iustices and Chief Baron for the time being or any two of them who shall forthwith communicate the same to the rest of the said Iustices and Barons who are hereby required to hear the Parties and examine and consider the said Exceptions And if any Seven or more of them shall subscribe thereunto that they find probable cause of complaint Then it shall and may be lawful to and for any Seven or more of the said Iustices Barons within Twenty days next following such Exceptions delivered to review the said former Order or Decrée And thereupon to reverse Confirm Enlarge Diminish or otherwise alter any such Order or Decrée as in their wisdoms they shall think fit Any thing herein contained notwithstanding CAP. III. For Rebuilding the City of London FOrasmuch as the City of London being the Imperial Seat of His Majesties Kingdoms and renowned for Trade and Commerce throughout the World by reason of a most dreadful Fire lately happening therein was for the most part thereof burnt down and destroyed within the compass of a few days and now lies buried in its own Ruines For the spéedy Restauration whereof and for the better Regulation Vniformity and Gracefulness of such new Buildings as shall be erected for Habitations in order thereunto And to the end that great and outragious Fires through the blessing of Almighty God so far forth as humane Providence with submission to the Divine pleasure can foresée may be reasonably prevented or obviated for the time to come both by the matter and form of such Building And further to the intent that all Incouragement and Expedition may be given unto and all Impediments and Obstructions that may retard or protract the undertaking or carrying on a work so necessary and of so great Honour and Importance to His Majesty and this Kingdom and to the rest of His Majesties Kingdoms and Dominions may be removed Be it therefore Enacted by the Kings most Excellent Majesty by and with the Advice and Consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal and Commons in this present Parliament assembled and by the Authority of the same That the Rules and Directions hereafter in this Act prescribed be duely observed by all persons therein concerned And first That no Building or House for Habitation whatsoever Rules and directions to be observed in building be hereafter Erected within the limits of the said City and Liberties thereof but such as shall be pursuant to such Rules and Orders of Building and with such materials as are herein after particularly appointed and according to such Scantlings as are set down and prescribed in a Table in this present Act hereafter specified And if any person or persons shall presume to Build contrary thereunto and be convicted of the same by the Oaths of two or more credible witnesses to be taken before the Lord Mayor for the time being or any two or more of the Iustices of the Peace for the said City Penalty who are hereby impowred to administer the same Oaths that then and in such case the said House so irregularly built as aforesaid shall be déemed as a common Nusance and the Builder and Levier thereof shall enter into a Recognizance in such sum as the said Mayor and Iustices respectively in their Discretions shall appoint for abatement and demolishing the same in convenient time or otherwise to amend the same according to such Rules and Orders as aforesaid and in default of entring into such Recognizance the Offender shall be committed to the common Gaol of the said City there to remain without Bail or Mainprize till he shall have abated or demolished or otherwise amended the same or else such irregular House shall or may be demolished or abated by Order of the Court of Aldermen And that the said irregular Buildings may be the better prevented or more effectually discovered Prevention of irregular buildings Be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That the Lord Mayor Aldermen and Common-Council of the said City shall and may at their will and pleasure elect nominate and appoint one or more discréet and intelligent person or persons in the Art of Building to be the Surveyors or Supervisors to sée the said Rules and Scantlings well and truly observed And that it shall be lawful for the said Mayor Aldermen and Common Council or for the Mayor and Aldermen in their Court of Aldermen to administer to all the said Surveyors or Supervisors an Oath upon the holy Evangelists for the true and impartial execution of their Office in that behalf and to appoint the several Precincts which shall be under their several Surveys And to the end that all Builders may the better know how to provide and fit their materials for their several Buildings Be it Enacted That there shall be onely Four sorts of Buildings There shall be four sorts of buildings only and no more and that all manner of Houses so to be erected shall be of one of those four sorts of Buildings and no other that is to say The First and least sort of Houses fronting By-Lanes the Second sort of Houses fronting Stréets and Lanes of note the Third sort of Houses fronting high and principal Stréets the Fourth and largest sort of Mansion-houses for Citizens or other persons of extraordinary quality not fronting either of the thrée former ways And the Roofs of each of the first three sorts of Houses respectively shall be Vniform And for avoiding any uncertainty to the Builders or others herein Be it further Enacted Powers of the Lord Mayor Aldermen and Common Council to declare Streets
advice and consent of the Lord Archbishop of Canterbury and the Bishop of London for the time being Provided also And be it Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That the Scites and Materials of such Churches as by this Bill are not intended to be Rebuilt Scites and Materials of Churches to be sold and how imployed together with the Church-yards belonging to such Churches shall be and are hereby vested in the Lord Mayor and Aldermen of the City of London for the time being to the end so much of the said Ground as shall not upon the Rebuilding of the said City be laid into the Stréets be sold and disposed of by the said Lord Mayor and Aldermen or the major part of them for the time being with the consent of the Archbishop of Canterbury and Bishop of London for the time being and the Money raised by such Sale shall be by the said Mayor and Aldermen or the major part of them with the consent of the said Archbishop and Bishop disposed of and imployed for and towards the Rebuilding of such Parish-Churches as by this Act are intended to be Rebuilt and for no other use or purpose whatsoever Provided always That any thing in this Act contained St. Pauls St. Faiths St. Gregories Churches shall not extend or be taken to vest or settle the Church of Saint Paul and Saint Faiths or any part thereof or the Church of Saint Gregories by Saint Pauls or any of them or the Church-yards to any of them belonging or appertaining in the Mayor Aldermen and Commons of the City of London or any of them Any thing in this Act notwithstanding And be it Enacted That for the preventing Inundations and for easiness of Ascent the Stréet called Thames-street and all the Ground betwéen the said Stréet and the River of Thames Thames-street shall be raised and made higher by thrée foot at the least above the surface of the ground as now it lieth Provided also And it is hereby further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That no House Out-house or other Building whatsoever Cranes and Sheds for present use only excepted shall be built or erected within the distance of Forty foot of such part of any Wall Key or Wharf as bounds the River of Thames from Tower-Wharf to London-Bridge and from London-Bridge to the Temple-Stairs Nor any House Out-house or other Building Cranes onely excepted be Built or Erected within the distance of Thréescore and ten Foot of the middle of any part of the Common-Sewers commonly called or known by the names of Bridewell-Dock Fleet-Ditch and Turmil-Brook from the River of Thames to Clarkenwel upon either side of them before the Four and twentieth day of March which shall be in the year of our Lord One thousand six hundred sixty eight And for the further enabling of the said Mayor and Commonalty and Citizens of the said City of London and their Successors to perform and accomplish the works in this Act mentioned An Imposition upon Coals Be it Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That for all sorts of Coals which from and after the four and twentieth day of June One thousand six hundred sixty seven and before the Four and twentieth day of June One thousand six hundred seventy seven shall be imported and brought into the Port of the City of London or the River of Thames within the liberty of the said City of London upon the same River to be sold by the Chaldron or Tun there shall be paid by way of Imposition thereupon over and besides all other Impositions and Duties due and payable for any sort of the said Coals by vertue of any Law or Statute now in force according to the Rates hereafter mentioned That is to say for such sorts of Coals as are usually sold by the Chaldron for every Chaldron thereof containing Thirty six bushels Winchester measure the sum of Twelve pence and for all such sorts of Coals as are sold by the Tun for every Tun thereof containing Twenty hundred weight the like sum of Twelve pence which said Imposition of Twelve pence for every Chaldron or Tun of Coals shall from time to time during the term aforesaid be answered and paid unto the said Mayor and Commonalty and Citizens and their Successors or to their Deputy or Deputies Officer or Assigns by the Master Owner or Owners or other person or persons taking charge of any Ship or Vessel whereupon the same shall be laden before they shall break Bulk or have a Meter assigned for the measuring or weighing of any Coals aforesaid to be delivered from on board any such Ship or Vessel the same to be paid at such place or places as by the said Mayor and Court of Aldermen shall from time to time be appointed for the receipt thereof Vpon receipt whereof the party appointed to receive the same shall without delay fée or reward deliver a Receipt to the person or persons who shall pay the said Duty which Receipt shall for so much be a sufficient discharge And to the end that the said Imposition may be duly answered and paid without fraud or covin and for the better Levying and Collecting thereof and for discovery of the just quantities of all sorts of Coals to be Imported as aforesaid Be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That the Coal-meters for the City of London appointed or to be appointed and every of them Coal-meters Duty for Levying the same and their respective Deputies in their turn course of attendance respectively so soon as any Ship or Vessel freight with Coals shall be unladen shall forthwith deliver a true Certificate in writing unto the Deputy or Deputies Officers or Assigns of the said Mayor and Commonalty and Citizens who shall be appointed to receive the said Imposition of the sorts quantities and number of Chaldrons or Tuns of Coals respectively which shall be measured or weighed and delivered from on Board any such Ship or Vessel on pain for his or their default therein to be suspended from the execution and benefit of his or their Office or Imployment for one whole year from thence next following And in case it shall appear by such Certificate or otherwise That there was on Board any such Ship or Vessel a greater number of Chaldrons or Tuns of Coals then for which the said Imposition shall have béen answered and paid as aforesaid That then in such case there shall be paid to the said Mayor and Commonalty and Citizens and their Successors for every Chaldron or Tun of Coals so concealed over and above the Imposition aforesaid the sum of Five shillings for which in case of refusal to pay the same such Ship or Vessel or any the Tackle Furniture or Apparel thereof may be attached and detained by Warrant from the Mayor of the said City for the time being until payment thereof Provided nevertheless That if the Importer upon such Certificate delivered in by the Coal-meter shall within four and
Parliament not having accounted for all the moneys by him received and to be accounted for upon such Act or Acts before Christmas one thousand six hundred sixty seven shall be appointed Receiver for any the moneys due by this Act and shall intermeddle therein every such person shall forfeit the sum of five hundred pounds to be recovered by any person or persons that will sue for the same in any of his Majesties Courts of Record by Action of Debt Bill Plaint or other Information wherein no Essoin Protection Wager of Law Aid Prayer Priviledg Injunction or Order of restraint shall be in any wise prayed granted or allowed nor any more then one Imparlance And be it Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That where any money shall by vertue of this Act be assessed upon any Inhabitants or place being within any Castle Fort or Garrison if such money so assessed be not paid within twenty dayes after such Assessment That then the Commissioners for such places shall make Certificate thereof unto the Barons of the Exchequer who shall cause such Proceedings to be had for the recovery thereof as for any other Debt due to his Majesty Provided always and be it Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That in case any part of the moneys which shall be raised by vertue of this Act or any other Act or Acts of this present Parliament shall be assigned or issued for and towards the Victualling of his Majesties Navy the same shall be subject to no charge nor shall any manner of Fee or deduction be taken or made out of the same to any other Officer or person whatsoever save only the usual Fees in such cases due and payable to the Tellers and other his Majesties Officers of the Exchequer And be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That no Letters Patents granted by the Kings Majesty or any of his Royal Progenitors or to be granted by his Majesty to any person or persons Cities Boroughs or Towns Corporate within this Realm of any manner of Liberties Priviledges or Exemptions from Subsidies Tolls Taxes Assessments or Aids shall be construed or taken to exempt any person or persons City Borough or Town Corporate or any the Inhabitants of the same from the burthen and charge of any sum or sums of money granted by this Act or any other Act of this Parliament now in force to the aid and supply of his Majesty in the present War And all Non obstantes in any such Letters Patents made or to be made in bar of any Act or Acts of Parliament for the Supply or Assistance of his Majesty are hereby declared to be void and of none effect any such Letters Patents Grants or Charters or any Clause of Non obstante or other matter or thing therein contained or any Law or Statute to the contrary notwithstanding FINIS A TABLE of the Principal Matters of the several Statutes contained in this Book Accompt and Accomptants 1 ALL Moneys and Goods for which any persons are accomptable not pardoned by the Act of Oblivion are Vested in the King 13 Car. 2. 3. See Excise and Collectors 2. Accompts of Sheriffs 14 Car. 2. 21. Administrators 1 Administrators de bonis non c. may sue Executions upon Judgment obtained by the Testator 17 Car. 2. 8. 2 Administrators and Executors of Sea-men shall pay but 12 d. for their Administration 19 C r. 2. 7. Advowsons See Rectories Ale-houses 1 Foreigners as well as Inhabitants may not tipple in Ale-houses Inns Taverns nor Victualling-houses 1 Car. 1. 4. 2 The penalty and punishment of any that keep an Ale-house or sell Beer Cyder or Perry without Licence 2 Car. 1. 3. Alienation 1 How persons may be eased in pleading Licences of Alienation 1 Câ—r 1. 3. Aliens See Merchants Anniversary 1 A perpetual Anniversary Thanksgiving on the 29th day of May for his Majesties Happy Restauration 12 Car. 2. 14. 2 A perpetual Anniversary Fast on the 30th of Jan. for the Murder of the late King 12 Car. 2. 30. Arrest 1 Persons arrested by Process out of the Kings-Bench or Common Pleas not expressing the cause of Action shall be bailed and set at liberty upon their own Bond for appearance 13 Car. 2. 2. Stat. 2. 2 Bonds given upon Arrests shall be discharged upon appearance Ibidem 3 Arrests upon Capias Utlagaâ— Attachments upon Rescous Contempt and upon Priviledg Excepted Ibidem Attainder 1 The Attainder of several persons for the Murther of his Sacred Majesty King Charles the First 12 Car. 2. 30. 2 The Attainder of the Earl of Strafford reversed 14 Car. 2. 29. 3 Thomas Dolman Joseph Bampfield and Thomas Scott Attainted of Treason if they render not themselves by a day 17 Car. 2. 5. Bankrupts 1 A Further Declaration who shall be esteemed Bankrupts 14 Car. 2. 24. 2 Persons for putting money into the East-India Stock or Guiney Company or Fishing Trade shall not be within the Statute of Bankrupts Ibidem Bays 1 Bays making in Colchester regulated PR 12 Car. 2 22. Benevolence 1 Commissions of that nature not to issue but by Authority of Parliament 13 Car. 2. 14. Books 1 The manner of Licensing all manner of Books and penalty for Printing unlicensed Books and Seditious Pamphlets 14 Car. 2. 33. Bone-Lace See Manufactures Bandstrings See Manufactures Buttons See Manufactures Bromfeild and Yale 1 A Confirmation of divers Estates there in the County of Denbigh 3 Car. 1. 6. Burials 1 All dead persons shall be buried in Woollen onely 1â— Car. 2. 4. Butter 1 How Butter shall be packed and the contents of a Firkin of Butter 14 Car. 2. 26. Cardwire 1 THe Importing foreign Wooll-Cards Card-wire and Iron-wire prohibited 14 Car. 2. 19. Carriages 1 How necessary Carriages shall be provided for the King in his Royal Progresses and Removals 13 Car. 2. 8. 2 How Carriages shall be provided for the Navy see Ships and Shipping Cattell 1 The Penalty for Importing Foreign Cattel at certain times of the year 15 Car. 2. 7. 2 Proviso for Importing Cattel from the Isle of Man ibid. 3 Penalty upon Butchers that shall sell live fat Cattel 15 Car. 2. 8. 4 Cattel may not be Imported from Ireland or other Parts beyond the Seas nor Fish taken by Foreiners 1â— Car. 2. 2. See Nâ—sanâ—e Clerk of the Market 1 Grievances by Clerks of the Market and inequality of Weights and Measures 17 Car. 1. 19. 2 Mayors Head-Officers and Lords of Liberties have power as Clerks of the Market ibid. 3 The penalty of taking any unlawful Fine or Fee by any Clerk of the Market ibid. 4 Water measure in Maritime Towns and others shall be continued as formerly ibid. Cloath 1 A Corporation erected and how Woollen Cloath shall be made in the West Riding in Yorkshire 14 Car. 2. 32. See Bays Coaches 1 The ordering and regulating the number and prices of Hackney-Coaches and who onely may be permitted to keep them about London 13 Car. 2. 2. Stat. 3. Coals 1 The Regulation of the