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
4. 20 R. 2. 2. and one other Statute made in the twentieth year of the reign of the late King Richard the second by which it is ordained that no Vaclets called Yeomen nor other of lesser estate than an Esquire shall use or bear any sign of Livery called Livery of Company of any Lord within the Realm And one Statute made in the first year of the reign of the late King Henry the fourth concerning giving of Liberies 7 H. 4. 7. 6 H. 4. 14. 13 H. 4. 3. 8 H. 6. 4. 8 Ed. 4. 2. 3 H. 7. 1. 3 H. 7. 12. A repeal of the 9 Statutes last mentioned And one statute made in the 7th year of the reign of the late King Hen. the 4th concerning giving of Liveries And one other Statute made in the 13th year of the reign of the late King Henry the fourth concerning giving of Liveries And one Statute made in the eighth year of the reign of the late King Henry the sixth concerning Liveries And one Statute made in the eighth year of the reign of the late King Edward the fourth concerning Liveries and so much of one Statute made in the third year of the reign of the late King Henry the seventh concerning the Star-Chamber as toucheth or concerneth the punishment of those that shall give or take Liveries And one other Statute made in the said third year concerning taking of Liveries by the Kings Officers and Farmers be from henceforth repealed And be it also enacted by authority of this Parliament 7 Jac. 20. continued untill the next Parliament that one Act of Parliament made in the seventh year of the reign of the late King James intituled An Act for the speedy recovery of many thousand Acres of marsh grounds and other grounds within the Counties of Norfolk and Suffolk lately surrounded by the rage of the Sea in divers parts of the said Counties and for the prevention of the danger of the like surrounding hereafter be continued and shall stand in force untill the end of the next Session of Parliament 17 Car. cap. 4. CAP. V. The Estates of the Tenants of Bromfield and Yale in the County of Denbigh and of the Tenures Rents and Services thereupon reserved according to the late composition made for the same with the Kings most Excellent Majesty then Prince of Wales ratified and confirmed PR CAP. VI. Five Subsidies granted by the Spiritualty EXP. CAP. VII Five Subsidies granted by the Temporalty Anno quarto Caroli Regis EXP. Anno Regni Caroli Regis Angliae Scotiae Franciae Hiberniae Decimo Sexto AT the Parliament begun at Westminster the third day of Novemb. An. Dom. 1640. In the sixteenth year of the Reign of CHARLES the first by the Grace of God of England Scotland France and Ireland King Defender of the Faith c. To the High pleasure of Almighty God and to the weal publick of this Realm were Enacted as followeth CAP. I. Parliaments to be called and held every third year REP. ALT 16 Car. 2. cap. 1. CAP. II. A Grant of four entire Subsidies for the Relief of His Majesties Army and the Northern parts of the Kingdom EXP. CAP. III. Some things mistaken in the last Act reformed and the Acts of the Commissioners and other Officers by them appointed made good EXP. Anno decimo septimo Caroli Regis CAP. IV. A Grant of two Subsidies for the further Relief of His Majesties Army and the Northern parts of the Kingdom EXP. And divers Statutes continued ANd be it Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That the passing of this present Act Divers Statutes continued or of any other Act or Acts or his Majesties Royal Assent to them or any of them in this present Session of Parliament shall not be any determination of the said Session 3 Car. cap. 4. continued further and that all Statutes and Acts of Parliament which have their continuance or were by an Act of Parliament made in the third year of the Reign of his Majesty that now is intituled An Act for the Continuance and Repeal of divers Statutes continued untill the end of the first Session of the then next Parliament shall by vertue of this Act be adiudged ever since the Session of Parliament in the said third year to have been of such force and effect as the same were the last day of that Session and from thenceforth until some other Act of Parliament be made touching the continuance or discontinuance of the said Statutes and Acts in the said Act of the third year of his Majesties Reign continued as aforesaid CAP. V. The Lord Admiral and others by his authority may Raise and Impress Mariners Sailers and others for the present guarding of the Seas and necessary Defence of the Realm EXP. CAP. VI. Michaelmas Term abbreviated Inconvenience◠Michaelmas term being so soon after the feast of Saint Michael VVHereas the Term of S. Michael commonly called Michaelmas Term doth begin so soon after the Feast of Saint Michael that it is generally found to be very inconvenient to His Majesties Subjects both Nobles and others as well for the keeping of the Quarter Sessions next after the Feast of Saint Michael the Archangel and the keeping of their Léets Law-dayes and Court-Barons which they can by no means attend in regard of the necessity of their coming to the said Term so spéedily after the Feast of Saint Michael the Archangel to appear upon Iuries and to follow their Causes and Suits in the Law the same time being the chief time of all the year for the sowing of Land with Winter Corn and for the disposing and setting in order of all their Winter Husbandry and business and for the receiving and paying of Rents And in many parts of this Kingdom Harvest is seldom or never Inned till three wéeks after the said Feast Therefore the Kings most Excellent Majesty out of the Princely care that he hath of all his loving Subjects having a special care to the encrease and continuance of their wealth and good Estates by the assent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal and Commons in this present Parliament assembled and by the authority of the same Ordaineth Enacteth and Establisheth That in the said Michaelmas Term there shall be six common dayes of Return only and not above that is to say The first day of Return thereof shall be and be called A die Sancti Michaelis in tres Septimanas In Michaelmas term shall be lie common dayes of Return only The second day of Return of the same Term shall be and be called A die Sancti Michaelis in unum mensem The third day of Return of the same Term shall be and be called In Crastino animarum The fourth day of Return of the same Term shall be and be called In Crastino Sancti Martini The fifth day of Return of the same Term shall be and be called In Octabis Sancti Martini And the sixth day of Return of the said
hundred fourty and one shall put in execution any Letters Patents Proclamation Edict Act Order Warrant Restraint or other Inhibition whatsoever whereby the Importation of Gun-powder Salt-peter Brimstone or other the materials aforementioned or any of them from Forraign parts or the making of Gun-powder within this Realm shall be any way prohibited or restrained That then the said person and persons so offending shall incur and sustain the pains penalties and forfeitures contained and provided in the Statute of provision and premunire made in the Sixtéenth year of King Richard the Second CAP. XXII A Subsidy granted to the King of Tunnage Poundage and other sums of Money Tunnage Poundage payable upon Merchandize Exported and Imported from the 9th of August 1641. to the first of December next EXP. CAP. XXIII An Act for the better raising and Levying of Mariners Sailers and others Mariners for the present guarding of the Seas EXP. CAP. XXIV For Relief of Captives taken by Turkish and other Pyrats Captive and one per Cent. on Customable goods for three years to be paid and received by the Lord Mayor and Chamberlain of London for that purpose EXP. CAP. XXV A Subsidy granted to the King of Tunnage Poundage c. from the last of November 1641. Tunnage Poundage to the first of February next and the like until the second of July 1642. EXP. CAP. XXVI For the better Raâ—sing and Levying of Mariners Sailers and others Mariners for the present guarding of the Seas EXP. CAP. XXVII Persons in Holy Orders shall not exercise certain temporal powers and authorities Persons in Holy Orders REP. Stat. 13 Car. 1. cap. 2. CAP. XXVIII For the better Raising and Levying of Souldiers for the present defence of the Kingdoms of England and Ireland Souldiers EXP. CAP. XXIX A Subsidy granted to the King of Tunnage and Poundage Tunnage Poundage and other sums of Money payable upon Merchandize Exported and Imported from the last of January 1641. to the 25th of March next ensuing EXP. CAP. XXX A Contribution and Loan towards the Relief of Ireland Contribution EXP. CAP. XXXI A Subsidy granted to the King of Tunnage and Poundage Tunnage Poundage and other sums of Money payable upon Merchandize exported and imported from the second of May 1642. to the second of July next following EXP. CAP. XXXII For the Raising and Levying of Moneys for the necessary defence and great affairs of the Kingdoms of England and Ireland and for the payment of Debts undertaken by the Parliament Ireland EXP. CAP. XXXIII An Act for the speedy and effectual reducing of the Rebels in Ireland EXP. CAP. XXXIV Certain Clauses explaining another Act for the reducing the Rebels in Ireland EXP. CAP. XXXV Corporations and Bodies Politick enabled to partake of the benefit of an Act for reducing the Rebels in Ireland EXP. CAP. XXXVI A Subsidy granted to the King of Tunnage Poundage and other sums of Money Tunnage Poundage payable upon Merchandize exported and imported from the 14th of March 1641. to the third of May next ensuing EXP. CAP. XXXVII For the further advancement of an effectual and speedy Reduction of the Rebels in Ireland EXP. Anno Regni Caroli II. Regis Angliae Scotiae Franciae Hiberniae Duodecimo AT the Parliament begun at Westminster the Five and twentieth day of April Anno Dom. 1660. In the Twelfth Year of the Reign of Our most Gracious Soveraign Lord CHARLES the Second by the Grace of God of England Scotland France and Ireland King Defender of the Faith c. And there continued until the Nine and twentieth day of December then next following and then Dissolved by his Majesty To the high pleasure of Almighty God and to the weal publick of this Realm were Enacted as followeth CAP. I. The Assembling and Sitting of this present Parliament St. 17 Car. 1. cap. 7. St. 13 Car. 2. cap. 1. The Parliament begun 3 Nov. 16 Car. declared to be dissolved St. 13 Car. 2. cap. 1 The Lords and Commons now sitting declared to be the two Houses of Parliament FOr the preventing all Doubts and Scruples concerning the Assembling Sitting and Procéeding of this present Parliament Be it Declared and Enacted and it is Declared and Enacted by the King our Soveraign Lord and by the Lords and Commons in Parliament assembled and by Authority of the same That the Parliament begun and holden at Westminster the third day of November in the Sixtéenth year of the Reign of the late King CHARLES of blessed Memory is fully Dissolved and Determined And that the Lords and Commons now sitting at Westminster in this present Parliament are the Two Houses of Parliament and so shall be and are hereby Declared Enacted and Adjudged to be to all Intents Constructions and purposes whatsoever notwithstanding any want of the Kings Majesties Writ or Writs of Summons or any Defect or Alteration of or in any Writ or Writs of Summons or any other Defect or Default whatsoever as if this Parliament had béen Summoned by Writ or Writs in his Majesties Name according to the usual Form and as if His Majesty had béen present in person at the Assembling and Commencement of this present Parliament Provided alwayes That this Parliament may be dissolved by his Majesty after the usual manner as if the same had béen summoned by Writ or Writs in his Majesties Name The Kings assent to this Act shall not determine this Session Provided also and it is hereby Enacted That His Majesties Royal Assent to this Bill shall not determine this present Session of Parliament CAP. II. An Act for putting in Execution an Ordinance mentioned in the said Act for an Assessment of 70000 l. per mensem for three Months EXP. CAP. III. Process and Judicial Proceedings Continued WHereas the four first Returns of Easter Term in the year One thousand six hundred sixty of late called from Easter day in fiftéen dayes from Easter day in thrée wéeks from Easter day in one Moneth and from Easter day in five wéeks or any of them cannot be conveniently kept or holden Now for avoiding all manner of discontinuances whatsoever which by occasion thereof should or might happen or be in any Matter or cause whatsoever Process Writs c. shall not be discontinued for not holding certain dayes of Return in any the Courts at Westminster Be it Enacted by the Kings most Excellent Majesty and the Lords and Commons Assembled in Parliament That no Pleas Writs Bills Actions Suits Plaints Process Precepts or other thing or things whatsoever Pleaded Returned or Depending or having day or dayes in any of the said Courts in or at the said several Returns or any of them or at any other day or dayes certain after any of the said Returns shall be in any wise discontinued or put without day for or by reason of the not kéeping or holding of the said Returns or dayes or any of them but that all
owners thereof Any usage or pretence or any thing in this Act contained to the contrary thereof in any wise notwithstanding Proviso for the rates of all In land letters Provided alwayes and be it Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That all Inland Letters sent by any Pacquet Post established by this Act as aforesaid do and shall pay the rates and prices before mentioned at such Stage where they are last delivered only unless the party that delivers the Letters desireth to pay elsewhere Any thing in this Act to the contrary notwithstanding Provided alwayes That all Letters and other things may be sent or conveyed to or from the Two Vniversities in manner as heretofore hath béen used Any thing herein to the contrary notwithstanding Stat. 13 Car. 2. cap. 7. CAP. XXXVI The Master of the Rolls for the time being impowred to make Leases for years in order to new build the old Houses belonging to the Rolls Pr. St. 13 Car. 2. cap. 6. CAP. XXXVII An Act for making the Precinct of Covent-Garden Parochial PR Anno Regni Caroli II. Regis Angliae Scotiae Franciae Hiberniae Decimo Tertio AT the Parliament begun and holden at Westminster the Eight day of May Anno Dom. 1661. In the Thirteenth Year of the Reign of Our most Gracious Soveraign Lord CHARLES the Second by the Grace of God of England Scotland France and Ireland King Defender of the Faith c. And there continued until Tuesday the Thirtieth of July 1661. and from that day the said Parliament was adjourned unto the Twentieth of November then next following To the pleasure of Almighty God and to the Weal publick of this Realm were Enacted as followeth CAP. I. For Safety of His Majesties Person and Government against Treasonable and Seditious Practices THe Lords and Commons assembled in Parliament déeply weighing and considering the miseries and calamities of well nigh twenty years before your Majesties happy Return The grounds and Inducements of this Act. and withall reflecting upon the causes and occasions of so great and deplorable conclusions do in all humility and thankfulness acknowledg Your Majesties incomparable Grace and Goodness to your People in your Frée and General Pardon Indempnity and Oblivion by which your Majesty hath béen pleased to deliver your Subjects not only from the punishment but also from the reproach of their former miscarriages which unexampled Piety and Clemency of Your Maiesty hath enflamed the hearts of us your Subjects with an ardent desire to express all possible zeal and duty in the care and preservation of your Majesties Person in whose Honour and Happiness consists the good and welfare of your People and in preventing as much as may be all Treasonable and Seditious Practices and Attempts for the time to come And because the growth and encrease of the late Troubles and Disorders did in a very great measure procéed from a multitude of Seditious Sermons Pamphlets and Spéeches daily preached printed and published Seditious Sermons Pamphlets and Speeches with a transcendent boldness defaming the Person and Government of Your Majesty and Your Royal Father wherein men were too much encouraged and above all from a wilful mistake of the Supream and lawful Authority whilst men were forward to cry up and maintain those Orders and Ordinances Oaths and Covenants to be Acts Legal and Warrantable which in themselves had not the least colour of Law or Iustice to support them from which kind of distempers as the present age is not yet wholly fréed so posterity may be apt to relapse into them if a timely remedy be not provided We therefore the Lords and Commons in Parliament assembled having duly considered the premisses 13 El. cap. 1. and remembring that in the Thirtéenth year of the Reign of Quéen Elizabeth of ever blessed memory a right good and profitable Law was made for preservation of her Majesties Person Do most humbly beséech your most Excellent Majesty that it may be Enacted What shall be adjudged Treason during the life of the King and be it Enacted by the Kings most Excellent Majesty by and with the Advice and Consent of the Lords and Commons in this present Parliament assembled and by Authority of the same That if any person or persons whatsoever after the Four and twentieth day of June in the year of our Lord One thousand six hundred sixty and one during the natural life of our most Gracious Soveraign Lord the King whom Almighty God preserve and bless with a long and prosperous Reign shall within the Realm or without compass imagine invent devise or intend death or destruction or any bodily harm tending to death or destruction maim or wounding imprisonment or restraint of the person of the same our Soveraign Lord the King or to deprive or depose him from the Stile Honour or Kingly name of the Imperial Crown of this Realm or of any other his Majesties Dominions or Countries or to levy War against his Majesty within this Realm or without or to move or stir any Forreiner or Strangers with Force to invade this Realm or any other his Majesties Dominions or Countries being under his Majesties Obeysance Being declared and proved by two witnesses And such compassings Imaginations Inventions Devices or Intentions or any of them shall express utter or declare by any Printing Writing Preaching or Malicious and advised speaking being legally convicted thereof upon the Oaths of two lawful and credible witnesses upon tryal Convicted by due course of Law or otherwise convicted or attainted by due course of Law then every such person and persons so as aforesaid offending shall be déemed declared and adjudged to be Traytors and shall suffer pains of death and also lose and forfeit as in cases of High Treason Offences during his Majesties life which disable persons to bear any Office And be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That if any person or persons at any time after the Four and twentieth day of June in the year of our Lord One thousand six hundred sixty and one during his Majesties life shall maliciously and advisedly publish or affirm the King to be an Heretick or a Papist or that he endeavours to introduce Popery or shall maliciously and advisedly by writing printing preaching or other speaking express publish utter or declare any words sentences or other thing or things to incite or stir up the people to hatred or dislike of the Person of his Majesty or the established Government then every such person and persons being thereof Legally convicted shall be disabled to have or enjoy and is hereby disabled and made incapable of having holding enjoying or exercising any place office or promotion Ecclesiastical Peerage Civil or Military or any other imployment in Church or State other then that of his Péerage and shall likewise be lyable to such further and other punishments as by the Common Laws or Statutes of this Realm may be inflicted in such cases Stat. 17
the said Burrough and Liberties shall deliver unto the said Bailiff Duplicates of all Accompts of Hearths and Stoves and do all other things in such manner as by the said Acts they ought to have done unto the said Sheriffs Any thing in the said former or this Act to the contrary notwithstanding Provided always and be it Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That it shall and may be lawful to and for the Lord High Treasurer of England Allowance to Clerks of the the Peace of the several Counties and the Chancellor of His Majesties Court of Exchequer or either of them to give and make such further allowance unto the Clerks of the Peace of the respective Counties of this Kingdom for their labour and pains in and about the Writing Engrossing and Returning into His Majesties Court of Exchequer the Duplicates and Returns of the several Constables in Parchment over and besides what is allowed by the said first recited Act as the said Lord High Treasurer and Chancellor or either of them shall think méet and convenient the same allowance not excéeding One penny in the pound by the year Any thing in the said former or in this Act to the contrary notwithstanding CAP. XIV The Profits of the Post-Office and Power of Granting Wine-Licenses setled on His Royall Highnesse the Duke of York and the Heirs Males of his Body WHereas the Lords and Commons being assembled at Westminster the Five and twentieth day of April Anno Domini One thousand six hundred and sixty in the Twelfth Year of the Reign of our most Gracious Sovereign Lord Charles the Second by the Grace of God of England Scotland France and Ireland King Defender of the Faith c. were there continued untill the Nine and twentieth day of December next following and then Dissolved In which time a certain Act was made Entituled 12 Car. 2. cap. 25. An Act for the better Ordering the selling of Wines by Retail and for preventing Abuses in the mingling corrupting and vitiating of Wines and for setling and limiting the prices of the same Whereby it was Enacted That no person or persons whatsoever from and after the Five and twentieth day of March in the year of our Lord One thousand six hundred sixty and one unless he or they should be authorized and enabled in manner and form as by the said Act is appointed shall sell or utter by Retail any kind of Wine or Wines to be spent in his or their Mansion-house or Houses or other place by any means whatsoever upon pain of forfeiting for every such offence the Sum of Five pounds the one moyety thereof to the King and the other moyety to him or them that will sue for the same And it was further thereby Enacted That it should be lawful for His Majesty his Heirs and Successors from time to time to issue out under his or their Great Seal of England One or more Commission or Commissions directed to two or more persons thereby authorizing them to license and give authority to such person or persons as they should think fit to sell and utter by Retail all and every or any kind of Wine or Wines to be drunk and spent as well within the house or houses or other place in the Tenure or Occupation of the party so Licensed as without in any City Town or other place within the Kingdom of England Dominion of Wales and Town of Berwick upon Tweed and such Commissioners are to Contract for selling and uttering of Wines by Retail in any City or other place as aforesaid in such manner and form and under such Provisoes as in the said Act is mentioned And it is further provided by the said Act That the Rents Revenues and Sums of money arising by the said Act should be duly and constantly paid and answered into His Majesties Receipt of Exchequer and not be charged or chargeable either before it be paid into the Exchequer or after with any Gift or Pension as by the said Act amongst divers other Provisoes and Clauses may more at large appear And also one other Act was at the same time made Entituled An Act for Erecting and Establishing a Post-Office 12 Car. 2. cap. 34. Whereby it is Enacted That from thenceforth there should be one general Letter-Office erected and established in some convenient place within the City of London from whence all Letters and Pacquets may be sent into any part of the Kingdom of England Scotland and Ireland or other of His Majesties Dominions or unto any Kingdom or Country beyond the Seas And that one Master of the said General Letter-Office shall be from time to time appointed by the Kings Majesty His Heirs and Successors by His or their Letters Patents under the Great Seal of England The Office of Post-Master General by the name and stile of His Majesties Post-Master-General which said Post-Master and his Deputy and Deputies by him thereunto sufficiently authorized and his and their Servants and Agents and no other person shall have the receiving ordering or sending Post of all Letters and Pacquets whatsoever to be sent to and from the places aforesaid except as therein and thereby is excepted And it was thereby provided That such Post-Master-General and his Deputy and Deputies may demand have receive and take for the Portage of all such Letters which he shall convey as aforesaid and for the providing and furnishing horses for thorough-Posts according to the Rates therein mentioned And that His Majesty His Heirs and Successors may Grant the said Office of Post-Master-General with the Powers and Authorities thereunto belonging and the several Rates of Portage therein mentioned and all Profits Priviledges Fées Perquisits and Emoluments thereunto belonging either for life or term of years not excéeding One and twenty years to such person and persons and under such Covenants Conditions and yearly Rents to His said Majesty His Heirs and Successors reserved as he or they shall from time to time think fit As by the said Act amongst divers other Clauses and Provisoes therein contained may more at large appear Both which Acts have béen confirmed by this present Parliament Now forasmuch as the Kings most Excellent Majesty is graciously pleased out of His Princely care and great love and affection to His most entirely beloved Brother James Duke of York for and towards the Maintenance and Support of the said Duke his State and Dignity to Grant and Assign all and every the Power and Powers Authority and Authorities of giving License to any person or persons to Sell or Vtter by Retail all and every or any kind of Wine or Wines whatsoever with all Rents Sum or Sums of Money Revenues Profits and Emoluments whatsoever that shall or may arise from or out or by reason of such power of Licensing the Retailing of Wines or Forfeitures for Retailing of Wines without such Licenses unto the said James Duke of York and to the Heirs males of his Body begotten or to be
are for the use and service aforesaid to be kept in His Majesties Office of Receipt in the said Mint or Mints under the usual Keys of the Warden Master and Worker and Comptroller for the time being and issued out thence from time to time according to the manner and course of the said Mint or Mints respectively And it is hereby further Enacted That there shall not be issued out of the Exchequer of the said moneys in any one year for the Fées and Salaries of the Officers of the Mint or Mints and towards the providing maintaining and repairing of the Houses Offices and Buildings and other necessaries for Assaying Melting down and Coyning above the sum of Thrée thousand pounds Sterling money And the overplus of the said moneys so kept or to be kept as aforesaid shall be imployed for and towards the expence waste and charge of assaying melting down and Coynage and buying in of Gold and Silver to Coyn The continuance of this Act. and not otherwise And lastly Be it Enacted And it is hereby Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That this Act shall continue and be in force until the Twentieth day of December which shall be in the year of our Lord One thousand six hundred seventy one and until the end of the first Session of Parliament then next following Proviso and no longer Provided always and be it further Enacted That where His Majesty in and by his Letters Patents under his Great Seal dated at Westminster the Twentieth day of August in the Twelfth year of his Reign Dame Barbara Villiers did for divers good causes and considerations Him moving give and grant to Dame Barbara Villiers Widow the sum of Two pence by tale out of every pound weight Troy of Silver moneys which from thenceforth should be Coyned by vertue of any Warrant or Indenture made and to be made by His Majesty his Heirs and Successors To have hold receive perceive and take the same unto the said Dame Barbara Villiers her Executors Administrators and Assigns from the Ninth day of the then instant August wéekly as the said moneys should be Coyned for and during the term of One and twenty years as by the same doth appear That His Majesty may out of the moneys leviable by this Act appoint and cause reasonable satisfaction to be made yearly to the said Dame Barbara Villiers her Executors and Administrators for her Interest in the Premisses not excéeding the sum of Six hundred pounds in any one year Anno Regni CAROLI II. Regis Angliae Scotiae Franciae Hiberniae Decimo Nono AT the Parliament begun at Westminster the Eighth day of May Anno Dom. 1661. In the Thirteenth 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 by several Prorogations to the 18th day of September 1666. And then continued to the 8th of February following And thence Prorogued to the 10th of October 1667. were Enacted as followeth CAP. I. An Act Explanatory of the Act for Raising Moneys by a Poll and otherwise towards the Maintenance of this present War 18 Car. 2. cap. 1. WHereas by an Act of this present Session of Parliament Intituled An Act for Raising Moneys by a Poll and otherwise towards the Maintenance of this present War It is Enacted That all and every person and persons shall pay unto His Majesty the sum of Twelve pence over and above the other Rates charged upon them by the said Act To prevent all doubts that may arise in the execution thereof Be it Enacted and Declared 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 said sum of Twelve pence shall be charged upon and be paid by every person of what age sex or condition soever within the Kingdom of England Dominion of Wales and Town of Berwick upon Tweed other then such persons who receive Alms from the Parish and the Children of any person remaining in his or her family who by reason of their poverty doth not contribute unto the Rates for Church and Poor and which are under the age of sixtéen years and are therefore exempted by the said Act. And be it further Enacted That the respective Parents Guardians and Tutors of every person under the age of One and twenty years shall upon default of payment by such person and upon demand pay Twelve pence for every such person residing in their family or under their Tuition and not exempted as aforesaid And be it Enacted That every person and persons charged or appointed to make any payment by vertue of this present Act shall be compellable by the Commissioners appointed by the before recited Act or any two or more of them to pay the same according unto the Rules and Methods and under the Penalties for paying the Rates expressed in the said recited Act. And be it further Enacted and Declared That every person or persons charged by the said recited Act for his or their Profession Office or in respect of any other capacity chargeable by this or the aforesaid Act who shall find him or themselves overcharged shall and may upon his or their Appeal before the Commissioners in the said Act mentioned or any two or more of them upon his or their several Oaths discharge him or themselves in such manner and form as persons over-rated for their personal Estates are by the said Act enabled And be it Enacted That all persons not being Housholders nor having a certain place of abode and all Servants shall be taxed at the places where they shall be resident at the time of the execution of the said Act and not otherwhere CAP. II. A Judicature erected for Determination of Differences touching Houses Burned or Demolished by reason of the late Fire which happened in London WHereas the greatest part of the Houses in the City of London and some in the Suburbs thereof have béen burnt by the dreadful and dismal Fire which happened in September last Many of the Tenants Vnder-tenants or late Occupiers whereof are liable unto Suits and Actions to compel them to repair and rebuild the same and to pay their Rents as if the same had not béen burned and are not relieveable therein in any ordinary course of Law and great Differences are like to arise concerning the said Repairs and new Building of the said Houses and payment of Rents which if they should not be determined with all spéed and without charge would much obstruct the rebuilding of the said City And for that it is just that every one concerned should bear a proportionable share of the loss according to their several Interests wherein in respect of the multitude of cases varying in their circumstances no certain general rule can be prescribed Be it
que use Cestuy que trust and every of them their Heirs Executors Administrators and Assigns respectively as if this Act had not béen made and as if the said person or persons had not béen excepted attainted or convicted Any Law Statute Vsage or Custome to the contrary thereof in any wise notwithstanding Provided alwayes That this Act nor any thing therein contained Fabric◠Lands Church Goods and Vtensils shall not extend to Indempnifie any person or persons whatsoever who have entred into any Messuage Lands Tenements and Hereditaments called Fabrick Lands or possest themselves of any Rent or Revenues given for the repair of any Cathedral or other Church or who have Sacrilegiously enriched themselves by converting the Plate or Vtensils and Materials of or belonging to such Churches to their own private use and advantage for or in respect of the said Crimes onely Stat. 13 Car. 2. cap. 7. CAP. XII Which Judicial Proceedings shall be good and effectual in Law and which not BE it Enacted and it is Enacted by His Majesty and the Lords and Commons in Parliament assembled and by the Authority of the same That no Fines nor final Concords Which Acts and Proceedings shall not be avoided Chirographs nor Proclamations of Fines nor any Recoveries Verdicts Iudgments Statutes Recognizances nor Inrolments of any Déeds or Wills or of any such Fines Proclamations Recoveries Verdicts Iudgments Statutes or Recognizances nor any Exemplifications of them nor any of them nor any Inquisitions Indictments Presentments Informations Decrées Sentences Probats of Wills nor Letters of Administration nor any Writs or Actings on or Returns of Writs Orders or other Procéedings in Law or Equity had made given taken or done or depending in the Courts of Chancery Kings-Bench Vpper Bench Common-Pleas and Court of Exchequer and Courts of Exchequer-Chamber or any of them sitting at Westminster or in the Courts of the Great Sessions in Wales the Courts of any Counties Palatine or Dutchy of Lancaster or Town of Berwick upon Tweed or in any other inferiour Courts of Law or Equity or by any the Iudges Clerks Officers Sheriffs Coroners or Ministers or others Acting in Obedience to them or any of them or by any the Courts of Admiralty Delegates Iustices of Assize Nisi Prius Oyer and Terminer Gaol-Delivery Iustices of the Peace Commissioners of Sewers Bankrupts or Charitable Vses nor any Actings Process Procéedings nor Executions thereupon had made given done or suffered in the Kingdom of England since the First of May One thousand six hundred forty two shall be avoided for want or defect of any Legal Power in the said Courts Iudges Commissioners Iustices or any of them or for or by reason that the Premisses or any of them were commenced prosecuted had made held or used in the Name Stile or Title of the late King or in the Name Stile Title or Test of Custodes Libertatis Angliae Authoritate Parliamenti Or in the Name Stile Title or Test of The Keepers of the Liberty of England by Authority of Parliament Or in the Name Stile Title or Test of Oliver Lord Protector of the Commonwealth of England Scotland and Ireland and the Dominions thereunto belonging Or of Oliver Lord Protector of the Commonwealth of England Scotland and Ireland and the Dominions and Territories thereunto belonging Or the Name Stile Title or Test of Richard Lord Protector of the Commonwealth of England Scotland and Ireland and the Dominions and Territories thereunto belonging or for or by reason of any alteration of the said Names Stiles or Titles Or for that the said Fines Recoveries Process Pleadings Procéedings and other things before mentioned Or the Entry and Enrolment of them or any of them were in the Latine or English But that all and every such Fines Recoveries and other things above mentioned and the Actings Doings and Procéedings thereupon shall be of such and of no other Force Effect and Vertue then as if such Courts Iudges Iustices Commissioners Officers and Ministers had acted by vertue of a True Iust and Legal Authority and as if the same and the Entry and Enrolment thereof were in Latine and as if the several Acts and Ordinances or pretended Acts or Ordinances made by both or either Houses of Parliament or any Convention assembled under the name of a Parliament or by Oliver Cromwell late stiled Protector of the Commonwealth of England Scotland and Ireland and the Dominions thereto belonging and his Council Warranting or Directing such Procéedings had béen Good True and Effectual Acts of Parliament Fines Levied without Entry of Licentia concordandi And whereas since the death of the late King several Fines have béen Levied without any Entry or due Entring of any sum paid pro licentia concordandi commonly called the Kings Silver and without Entry or due Entry of any sum given to the party for the Concord And also whereas in the Term of St. Michael last past several Fines were Levied and Recorded in the Court of Common Pleas before one Iudge onely of the said Court Be it Enacted That the said Fines and Proclamations thereupon and every of them shall be good and effectual notwithstanding the defects aforesaid Fines and Recoveries of Lands in Com Palatin Durham And be it also further Enacted That all Fines Proclamations of Fines Recoveries and other Iudicial procéedings in the Court of Common Pleas at Westminster since the death of His late Majesty King Charles the First Had Levied or Suffered of any Lands lying in the County Palatine of Durham shall be good and effectual notwithstanding the said Lands were lying in the said County Palatine The Illegal Acts and Proceedings of that High Court of Iustice not allowed Provided That this Act or any thing there in contained shall not be Construed Deemed or Adjudged to make good allow confirm or countenance any the Procéedings in the late Illegal and Vn-warranted High Courts of Iustice or so called or any of them And whereas since the first day of May in the year of our Lord One thousand six hundred forty one and before the Five and twentieth day of April in the year of our Lord One thousand six hundred and sixty there were divers persons that Adhered to both Houses of Parliament who for or in respect of such their adherence were Indicted Charged or Impeached of Treason And whereas since the said first Day of May in the Year of our Lord One thousand six Hundred Forty one and before the said Five and twentieth day of April in the Year of our Lord One thousand six hundred and sixty divers persons who adhered to His Majesty or to the late King were for such their adherence Charged Impeached or Indicted of High Treason Indictments c. and all Grants thereupon made void Be it further Provided and Enacted That the said Charges Impeachments Indictments and all Exigents Outlawries Convictions and Attainders thereupon and all Letters Patents and Grants thereupon made of any Manors Lands Tenements or
priviledges of Parliament and both Houses thereof now Assembled or that hereafter shall be called and assembled Provided alwayes and be it enacted That all and every pretended Indictment or Indictments Out-lawries Inquisitions and all Procéedings thereon of High Treason against any Person or Persons whatsoever for Levying War against the late Tyrant Oliver Cromwell the pretended Kéepers of the Liberty of England or any other Vsurped Power Indictments of Treasons c. for levying wars against Oliver Cromwell c. made void shall be from henceforth void and of none effect in Law And that all Grants Conveyances Leases Devices Assurances Statutes Recognizances and Iudgments for Debt Damages heretofore had made or suffered by any person or his heirs whose Conviction Vtlagary or Attainder is by this Act discharged or made void shall be of the same force and effect as if no such Conviction Outlawry or Attainder had béen Stat. 13 Car. 2. cap. 7. CAP. XIII None shall take above Six Pounds for the loan of an Hundred Pounds for a Year Abatement of interest advantagious to Trade FOrasmuch as the Abatement of Interest from Ten in the Hundred in former times hath béen found by notable experience Beneficial to the Advancement of Trade and Improvement of Lands by good Husbandry with many other considerable advantages to this Nation especially the reducing of it to a nearer Proportion with Forreign States with whom We Traffique And whereas in fresh memory the like fall from Eight to Six in the Hundred by a late constant practise hath found the like Success to the general contentment of this Nation as is visible by several Improvements And whereas it is the endeavour of some at present to reduce it back again in practice to the allowance of the Statute still in force to Eight in the Hundred to the great discouragement of Ingenuity and Industry in the Husbandry Trade and Commerce of this Nation The penalty and forfeiture of taking above six in the hundred Be it for the Reasons aforesaid Enacted by the Kings most Excellent Majesty and the Lords and Commons in this present Parliament assembled That no Person or Persons whatsoever from and after the Twenty Ninth day of September in the Year of our Lord One thousand six hundred and sixty upon any Contract shall from and after the said Twenty Ninth of September take directly or indirectly for Loan of any Monies Wares Merchandise or other Commodities whatsoever above the value of Six Pounds for the Forbearance of one Hundred Pounds for a Year and so after that Rate for a greater or lesser Sum or for a longer or shorter time And that all Bonds Contracts and Assurances whatsoever made after the time aforesaid for payment of any Principal or money to be lent or covenanted to be performed upon or for any Vsury whereupon or whereby there shall be reserved or taken above the Rate of Six pounds in the Hundred as aforesaid shall be utterly void And that all and every person or persons whatsoever which shall after the time aforesaid upon any Contract to be made after the said Twenty Ninth of September take accept and receive by way or means of any corrupt Bargain Loan Exchange Cheivisaunce Shift or Interest of any Wares Merchandise or other thing or things whatsoever or by any deceitful way or means or by any covin engine or deceitful conveyance for the forbearing or giving day of payment for one whole year of and for their money or other thing above the sum of six pounds for the forbearing of One hundred pounds for a year and so after that Rate for a greater or lesser Sum or for a longer or shorter Term shall forfeit and lose for every such offence the treble value of the moneys wares merchandise and other things so Lent Bargained Sold Exchanged or Shifted The Forfeiture of a Scrivener that shall take above five shillings for the forbearance of an hundred pounds for a year and above twelve pence for making a Bond. And be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That all and every Scrivener and Scriveners Broker and Brokers Solicitor and Solicitors Driver and Drivers of Bargains for Contracts who shall after the said Twenty ninth day of September take or receive directly or indirectly any sum or sums of money or other reward or thing for Brokage Soliciting Driving or Procuring the Loan or forbearing of any sum or sums of money over and above the Rate or Value of five shillings for the Loan or forbearing of one hundred pounds for a year and so rateably or above Twelve pence for making or renewing of the Bond or Bill for the Loan or for forbearing thereof or for any Counter-Bond or Bill concerning the same shall forfeit for every such Offence Twenty pounds and have Imprisonment for half a year The one moyety of all which Forfeitures to be to the King our Soveraign Lord his Heirs and Successors And the other moyety to him or them that will sue for the same in the same County where the several Offences are committed and not elsewhere by Action of Debt Bill Plaint or Information in which no Essoign Wager of Law or Protection to be allowed Stat. 13 Car. 2. cap. 13. CAP. XIV A Perpetual Anniversary Thanksgiving on the Nine and twentietth day of May for His Majesties Happy Restauration The wonderful Power and Goodness of God in the Restauration◠of his Majesty FOrasmuch as Almighty God the King of Kings and sole Disposer of all Earthly Crowns and Kingdoms hath by his All-swaying Providence and Power miraculously demonstrated in the view of all the World his Transcendent Mercy Love and Graciousness towards His most Excellent Majesty CHARLES the Second by his Especial Grace of England Scotland France and Ireland King Defender of the true Faith and all his Majesties Loyal Subjects of this his Kingdom of England and the Dominions thereunto annexed by his Majesties late most wonderful glorious peaceable and joyful Restauration to the actual possession and exercise of his undoubted hereditary Soveraign and Regal Authority over them after sundry years forced extermination into Forreign parts The unanimous and cordial affection of the Lords and Commons in Parliament and People in general by the most Trayterous Conspiracies and Armed Power of Vsurping Tyrants and execrable perfidious Traytors and that without the least opposition or effusion of blood through the unanimous cordial Loyal Votes of the Lords and Commons in this present Parliament assembled and passionate desires of all other his Majesties Subjects which unexpressible Blessing by Gods own most wonderful Dispensation was compleated on the Twenty Ninth day of May last past being the most memorable Birth-Day not onely of his Majesty both as a Man and Prince but likewise as an Actual King and of this and other His Majesties Kingdoms all in a great measure new born and raised from the dead on this most joyful Day wherein many Thousands of the Nobility Gentry Citizens
established in some convenient place within the City of London A master of the Office to be appointed by the King Post-master General from whence all Letters and pacquets whatsoever may be with spéed and expedition sent unto any part of the Kingdoms of England Scotland and Ireland or any other of his Majesties Dominions or unto any Kingdom or Country beyond the Seas at which said Office all Returns and Answers may be likewise received And that one Master of the said General Letter-Office shall be from time to time appointed by the Kings Majesty His Heirs and Successors to be made and constituted by Letters Patents under the Great Seal of England by the name and Stile of his Majesties Post-Master General which said Master of the said Office and his Deputy and Deputies by him thereunto sufficiently authorised and his and their Servants and Agents and no other person or persons whatsoever shall from time to time have the receiving taking up ordering dispatching sending Post or with spéed and delivering of all Letters and Pacquets whatsoever which shall from time to time be sent to and from all and every the parts and places of England Scotland and Ireland and other his Majesties Dominions and to and from all and every the Kingdoms and Countries beyond the Seas where he shall settle or cause to be setled posts or running Messengers for that purpose Except such Letters as shall be sent by Coaches common known Carriers of Goods by Carts Waggons or Packhorses and shall be carried along with their Carts Waggons and Packhorses respectively And except Letters of Merchants and Masters which shall be sent by any Masters of any Ships Barques or other Vessel of Merchandize or by any other person imployed by them for the carriage of such Letters aforesaid according to the respective directions And also except Letters to be sent by any private friend or friends in their wayes of journey or travel or by any messenger or messengers sent on purpose for or concerning the private affairs of any person or persons And also except Messengers who carry and recarry Commissions or the Return thereof Affidavits Writs Process or Procéedings or the Returns thereof issuing out of any Court And be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid The Post-master General and no other to provide horses for riding post That such Post-Master General for the time being as shall from time to time be made and constituted by His Majesty His Heirs and Successors and the respective Deputies or Substitutes of such Post-Master General and no other person or persons whatsoever shall prepare and provide Horses and furniture to let to Hire unto all Through-posts and persons riding in post by Commission or without to and from all and every the parts and places of England Scotland and Ireland where any post-roads are or shall be setled and established And be it further Enacted by the authority aforesaid That it shall and may be lawful to and for such Post-Master General to be constituted and appointed as aforesaid and his Deputy or Deputies by him thereunto sufficiently authorized to demand have receive and take for the portage and conveyance of all such Letters which he shall so convey carry or send Post as aforesaid and for the providing and furnishing Horses for Through-Posts or persons riding in Post as aforesaid according to the several Rates and Sums of Lawful English money hereafter mentioned Rates for carrying letters not to excéed the same that is to say For the Port of every Letter not excéeding one shéet to or from any place not excéeding fourscore English miles distant from the place where such Letter shall be received Two pence And for the like port of every Letter not excéeding two shéets Four pence And for the like port of every pacquet of Letters proportionably unto the said Rates And for the like port of every pacquet of Writs Déeds and other things after the Rate of Eight pence for every ounce weight and for the port of every Letter not excéeding one shéet above the distance of fourscore English miles from the place where the same shall be received Thrée pence And for the like port of a Letter not excéeding two shéets Six pence and proportionably to the same rates for the like port of all pacquets of Letters and for the like port of every other pacquet of writs Déeds or other things after the rate of Twelve pence of English money for every Ounce weight and for the port of every letter not excéeding One shéet from London unto the Town of Berwick or from thence to the City of London Thrée pence of English money And for the like port of every letter not excéeding two shéets Six pence and proportionably unto the same rates for every pacquet of letters and for every other pacquet of greater bulk One shilling and Six pence for every Ounce weight And for the port of such letters and pacquets as shall be conveyed or carried from the Town of Berwick unto any place or places within forty English miles distance from Berwick or any other place where such letter shall be received Two pence and for every letter not excéeding Two shéets Four pence and proportionably to the same rates for every pacquet of letters and for every other pacquet or parcel Eight pence for every Ounce weight and for every letter not excéeding One shéet to be conveyed or carryed a further distance then Forty English miles Four pence And for the like port of every pacquet of letters Eight pence and proportionably unto the same Rates for the like port of every pacquet of letters and for the like port of every other pacquet One shilling for every Ounce weight and for the port of every letter not excéeding one shéet from England unto the City of Dublin in Ireland or from the City of Dublin in Ireland unto England Six pence of English money and for the like port of every letter not excéeding two shéets one shilling and proportionably to the same rates for every pacquet of letters and for the port of every other pacquet of any kind of greater Bulk Two shillings for every ounce weight and for the Port of such Letters or Pacquets as shall be conveyed or carryed from the City of Dublin unto any other place or places within the Kingdom of Ireland or from any other place unto the said City or to or from any other place within the said Kingdom according to the Rates and sums of English mony hereafter following viz. For every Letter not excéeding one shéet to or from any place within forty English Miles distance from Dublin or any other place where such Letter shall be received Two pence And for every letter not excéeding two shéets Four pence and proportionably to the same Rates for every pacquet of letters and for every pacquet of greater Bulk Eight pence for every Ounce Weight and for every letter not excéeding one shéet to be carryed or conveyed a
continue any such foot-post Horse-post Coach-post or pacquet-Boat as aforesaid which said several and respective Forfeitures shall and may be sued for and recovered by Action or Actions of Debt plaint or Information in any of his Majesties Courts of Record wherein no Essoigne priviledge protection or Wager of Law shall be admitted Proviso where any Post-master doth not provide and the said several and respective forfeitures that shall happen from time to time to be recovered shall be and remain the one moyety thereof to his Majesty and his Heirs and Successors and the other moyety thereof to such person or persons who shall or will inform against the Offender or Offenders against this present Act and shall or will sue for the said forfeitures upon the same Provided alwayes That if any post-Master of any respective place doth not or cannot furnish any person or persons riding in Post with sufficient horses within the space of one half hour after demand That then such person or persons are here understood to be left at liberty to provide themselves as conveniently they can And the persons who shall furnish such horses shall not therefore be liable unto any Penalties or Forfeitures contained in this Act. Provided alwaies That if through default or neglect of the Post-Master General aforesaid Proviso touching Post-masters that do not sufficiently provide horses c. any person or persons riding in Post shall fail as aforesaid of being furnished with a sufficient Horse or Horses for his or their use after demand as aforesaid That in every such case the said Post-Master General shall forfeit the sum of Five pounds sterling the one moyety to his Majesty his Heirs and Successors and the other moyety to him or them who shall sue for the same in any Court of Record to be recovered by Bill Plaint or other Information wherein no Essoigne Protection or other Wager in Law shall be admitted Provided alwayes and be it Enacted Proviso That nothing herein contained shall be understood to prohibit the carrying or recarrying of any Letters or pacquets to or from any Town or place to or from the next respective Post-Road or Stage appointed for that purpose But that every person shall have frée Liberty to send and imploy such persons as they shall think fit for to carry the said Letters or Pacquets as aforesaid without any forfeiture or penalty therefore Any thing contained in this Act to the contrary notwithstanding Proviso against carrying any pacquet out of England in any forreign vessels Provided alwayes That if the Pacquet or Maile shall be carryed out of England into any part beyond the Seas in any ship or Vessel which is not of English built and Navigated with English Seamen That in every such case the said post-Master General shall forfeit the sum of one hundred pounds Sterling The one moyety to his Majesty His Heirs and Successors and the other moyety to him or them who shall sue for the same in any Court of Record to be recovered by Bill Plaint or other Information wherein no Essoigne Protection or other Wager in Law shall be allowed Oaths of Allegiance and Supremacy Provided also and be it Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That no person or persons shall be capable of having using or exercising the Office of post-Master General or any other Imployment relating to the said Office unless he or they shall first take the Oaths of Allegiance and Supremacy before any two Iustices of the peace of the respective Counties wherein such person or persons are or shall be resident which said Iustices are hereby Authorized to administer the said oaths accordingly Proviso Truro Penrin Kendall Lancaster Penrith Carlisle Grimsby Post-Master to continue constant posts Provided also and be it Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That a Letter or pacquet-post shall twice every wéek come by the way of Truro and Penrin to the Town of Marketiew alias Marhasion in the County of Cornwall and once a wéek to Kendal by the way of Lancaster and to the Town of Penrith in Cumberland by the way of Newcastle and Carlisle and to the City of Lincoln and the Burrough of Grimsby in the County of Lincoln Any thing in this Act contained to the contrary thereof in any wise notwithstanding Provided also and be it Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That such post-master General to be from time to time appointed by his Majesty His Heirs and Successors as aforesaid shall continue constant posts for carriage of letters to all places though they lye out of the post-roads as hath béen used for the space of thrée years last past at the rates herein before mentioned under pain of forfeiture for every omission Five pounds to be recovered by Action Suit or plaint in any his Majesties Courts of Record the one moyety to the use of his Majesty the other moyety to the use of the Informer And for the better management of the said post-Office and that the people of these Kingdomes may have their intercourse of Commerce and trade the better maintained and their Letters and advises conveyed carried and recarried with the greatest spéed security and convenience that may be Penalty for every omission The Post-master c. to observe such orders as his Majesty shall make Be it further Enacted That the said post-Master General so nominated appointed and constituted as aforesaid and his Deputies shall from time to time observe and follow such orders rules directions and instructions for and concerning the settlement of convenient posts and Stages upon the several roads in England Scotland and Ireland and other his Majesties Dominions and the providing and kéeping of a sufficient number of horses at the said several Stages as well for the carrying and conveying of the said letters and pacquets as for the horsing of all thorow-posts and persons riding in post by warrant or otherwise as aforesaid as his Majesty his heirs and Successors shall from time to time in that behalf make and ordain And that his Majesty his heirs and Successors may grant the said Office of post-master General His Maiesty may grant the said office for life or years not exceeding 25. years together with the powers and Authorities thereunto belonging and the several rates of portage above mentioned and all profits priviledges fées perquisites and emoluments thereunto belonging or to belong either for life or term of years not excéeding one and twenty years to such person or persons and under such Covenants conditions and yearly rents to his said Majesty his Heirs and Successors reserved as his said Majesty his heirs and Successors shall from time to time think fit for the best advantage and benefit of the Kingdom No horses to be seized without consent of the owners Provided alwayes and be it Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That no person shall have power to take use or seize any horses for the service mentioned in this Act without the consent of the
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 Which said Declaration and Acknowledgment shall be Subscribed by every of the said Masters and other Heads Fellows Chaplains and Tutors of or in any Colledge Hall or House of Learning and by every publick Professor and Reader in either of the Vniversities before the Vice-Chancellor of the respective Vniversities for the time being or his Deputy And the said Declaration or Acknowledgment shall be Subscribed before the respective Archbishop Bishop or Ordinary of the Diocess by every other person hereby enjoyned the same The penalty for not subscribing upon pain that all and every of the persons aforesaid failing in such Subscription shall lose and forfeit such respective Deanry Canonry Prebend Mastership Headship Fellowship Professors place Readers place Parsonage Vicarage Ecclesiastical Dignity or Promotion Curates place Lecture and School and shall be utterly disabled and ipso facto deprived of the same And that every such respective Deanry Canonry Prebend Mastership Headship Fellowship Professors place Readers place Parsonage Vicarage Ecclesiastical Dignity or Promotion Curates place Lecture and School shall be void as if such person so failing were naturally dead And if any School-master or other person Instructing School-Masters in private houses or Teaching Youth in any private House or Family as a Tutor or School-Master shall Instruct or Teach any Youth as a Tutor or School-Master before Licence obtained from his respective Archbishop Bishop or Ordinary of the Diocess according to the Lawes and Statutes of this Realm for which he shall pay twelve-pence only and before such Subscription and Acknowledgment made as aforesaid Then every such School-master and other Instructing and Teaching as aforesaid shall for the first offence suffer thrée months Imprisonment without bail or mainprize and for every second and other such offence shall suffer thrée months Imprisonment without bail or mainprize and also forfeit to his Majesty the sum of Five pounds And after such Subscription made every such Parson Vicar Curate and Lecturer shall procure a Certificate under the Hand and Seal of the respective Archbishop Bishop or Ordinary of the Diocess who are hereby enjoyned and required upon demand to make and deliver the same and shall publickly and openly Read the same together with the Declaration or Acknowledgment aforesaid upon some Lords Day within thrée months then next following in his Parish Church where he is to officiate in the presence of the Congregation there assembled in the time of Divine Service upon pain that every person failing therein shall lose such Parsonage Vicarage or Benefice Curates place or Lecturers place respectively and shall be utterly disabled and ipso facto deprived of the same And that the said Parsonage Vicarage or Benefice Curates place or Lecturers place shall be void as if he was naturally dead Provided alwayes That from and after the Twenty fifth day of March What to be omitted in the Declaration after the 25. March 1682. which shall be in the year of our Lord God One thousand six hundred eighty two there shall be omitted in the said Declaration or Acknowledgment so to be Subscribed and Read these words following Scilicet ANd I do declare That I do hold there lies no Obligation on 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 know Laws and Liberties of this Kingdom So as none of the persons aforesaid shall from thenceforth be at all obliged to Subscribe or Read that part of the said Declaration or Acknowledgment Provided alwayes and be it Enacted That from and after the Feast of St. Bartholomew Persons not Ordained Priests or Deacons according to Episcopal Ordination shall not hold any Ecclesiastical Promotion which shall be in the year of our Lord One thousand six hundred sixty and two no person who now is Incumbent and in possession of any Parsonage Vicarage or Benefice and who is not already in Holy Orders by Episcopal Ordination or shall not before the said Feast-day of St. Bartholomew be Ordained Priest or Deacon according to the form of Episcopal Ordination shall have hold or enjoy the said Parsonage Vicarage Benefice with Cure or other Ecclesiastical Promotion within this Kingdom of England or the Dominion of Wales or Town of Berwick upon Tweed But shall be utterly disabled and ipso facto deprived of the same And all his Ecclesiastical Promotions shall be void as if he was naturally dead Nor shall consecrate or administer the Holy Sacrament if not Ordained according to the Book of Common Prayer And be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That no person whatsoever shall thenceforth be capable to be admitted to any Parsonage Vicarage Benefice or other Ecclesiastical Promotion or Dignity whatsoever nor shall presume to Consecrate and Administer the holy Sacrament of the Lords Supper before such time as he shall be Ordained Priest according to the form and manner in and by the said Book prescribed unless he have formerly béen made Priest by Episcopal Ordination upon pain to forfeit for every offence the sum of One hundred pounds The Penalty One moyety thereof to the Kings Majestie the other moyety thereof to be equally divided betwéen the poor of the Parish where the offence shall be committed and such person or persons as shall sue for the same by Action of Debt Bill Plaint or Information in any of His Majesties Courts of Record wherein no Essoign Protection or Wager of Law shall be allowed And to be disabled from taking or being admitted into the Order of Priest by the space of one whole year then next following Provided That the penalties in this Act shall not extend to the Forreiners or Aliens of the Forrein Reformed Churches allowed or to be allowed by the Kings Majesty his Heirs and Successors in England Provided alwayes That no title to confer or present by lapse shall accrue by any avoidance or deprivation ipso facto by vertue of this Statute but after six months after notice of such voidance or deprivation given by the Ordinary to the Patron or such sentence of deprivation openly and publickly Read in the Parish Church of the Benefice Parsonage or Vicarage becoming void or whereof the Incumbent shall be deprived by vertue of this Act. No other form of Common Prayer to be openly used in any Church or publique place And be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That no Form or Order of Common Prayers Administration of Sacraments Rites or Ceremonies shall be openly used in any Church Chappel or other publick place of or in any Colledg or Hall in either of the Vniversities the Colledges of
and by Authority thereof that from and after the Feast of St. Michael the Arch-angel which shall be in the year of our Lord One thousand six hundred sixty and two for and during the term of Five years next ensuing the date of this present Act it shall and may be lawful for the respective Iustices of Peace of the said respective Counties or the major part of them at any General Sessions of the Peace to be holden for the said Counties respectively on the behalf of the said Counties or either of them from time to time as they shall sée occasion to make an Order in open Court of Sessions for charging according to their several Proportions all and every the several Inhabitants of the said respective Counties for the safeguard and securing of the said severall Counties and Inhabitants thereof from all injury violence spoil and rapine of the Moss-Troopers aforesaid Provided That the said County of Northumberland be not by force of this Act at any time charged above the sum of Five hundred pounds in the year nor the said County of Cumberland charged above the sum of two hundred pounds in the year And for this end and purpose the said several Iustices of Peace of the respective Counties aforesaid are hereby impowred and authorized at any their General Quarter Sessions aforesaid to appoint and imploy from time to time if occasion require any person or persons to have the Conduct and Command of a certain number of men not excéeding the number of Thirty men in the County of Northumberland and Twelve in the County of Cumberland whereby the Malefactors aforesaid may be searched out discovered pursued apprehended and brought to tryal of the Law And all and every the said Iustices of Peace of the respective Counties aforesaid or the major part of them at any General Sessions of the Peace to be holden for the said Counties or either of them respectively are hereby further impowred and authorized by force of this present Act to make and issue forth their respective Warrants under their hands for the levying and collecting any sum or sums of money ordered to be paid for and towards the safeguard and securing of the said Counties respectively as aforesaid and to give full power to the several Constables and other Officers to raise levy and collect the said money and all and every the Inhabitants of the said several Counties according to their respective proportionable Estates in Lands or Goods by Distress and Sale of Goods rendering the overplus if there be any to the respective Owner or Owners And the said Iustices of Peace in the said several Counties or any one of them respectively are hereby also authorized to examine any Complaint made against the Collectors and Constables or any other Officers or Ministers of Iustice whatsoever or any of them or any other refractory person or persons whatsoever that at any time hereafter shall refuse neglect or fail to give obedience to this Act or shall do any act or acts in disturbance or obstruction thereof and to bind over such person or persons to the next Quarter Sessions according to the known Laws of the Land to the end such person or persons may be procéeded withall according to Iustice And the said respective Iustices of Peace as aforesaid are hereby further Impowred and Authorized on behalf of the said several Counties respectively to appoint a Treasurer to receive from the said Collectors the Moneys by them Collected and to pay over the same according to the Orders they shall receive from the said Iustices at the General Sessions of the Peace to be holden for the said respective Counties And the said Iustices are also Impowred to agrée and article with such person or persons yearly as they shall think fit to imploy in the said Service and to take sufficient Security of them for the faithful and most effectual performance thereof for the best safeguard advantage and benefit of the people according to the true intent and meaning of this Act. And in case any person or persons shall in pursuance of this Act be imployed in the Border-Service and shall at any time hereafter wilfully and corruptly or for any sinister respect whatsoever neglect or forbear to Discover or Apprehend or to bring to Tryal any of the said persons called Moss-Troopers as aforesaid and shall be convicted thereof according to Law he or they shall from thenceforth be disabled and made uncapable for ever after to manage or take upon him or them the said Imployment and to suffer such Fine and Imprisonment according to the quality of his or their offence as the Iustices of Peace at their General Sessions shall think fit to inflict Provided nevertheless and be it hereby Declared That it shall be lawful for the Iustices of Peace of either of the said Counties as aforesaid respectively at any time hereafter to moderate or lessen the said charge if they sée cause Provided that this Act shall continue and be in force for five years and no longer Provided always and be it further Enacted by Authority aforesaid That for better suppression and punishment of the said Moss-Troopers flying out of England into Scotland or out of Scotland into England 4 Jac. cap. 1. 7 Jac. cap. 1. the Statutes made in the several Sessions of Parliament in the Fourth and Seventh years of King James shall be revived and put in execution according to their true intent 18 Car. 2. cap. 3. Continued for Seven years from the expiration of this Act. CAP. XXIII An Additionall Act concerning matter of Assurance used amongst Merchants WHereas by an Act of Parliament made in the Thrée and fortieth year of the Reign of Quéen Elizabeth of happy memory 43 El. cap. 12. Entituled An Act concerning matters of Assurances used amongst Merchants Encouragement of Merchants and Trade The Parliament then taking into Consideration by all good means to comfort and encourage the Merchants of this Kingdome thereby to advance and increase the Wealth of this Realm her Majesties Customs and the strength of shipping and for preventing of divers mischiefs in the said Act mentioned It was Enacted That it should and might be lawful for the Lord Chancellor or Lord Kéeper of the Great Seal of England for the time being to award forth under the Great Seal of England one general or standing Commission to be renewed yearly at the least and otherwise so often as unto the Lord Chancellor or Lord Kéeper should séem méet for the hearing and determining of Causes arising on Policies of Assurance such as then were or then after should be entred within the Office of Assurance of the City of London which Commissions should be directed to the Iudge of the Admiralty for the time being the Recorder of London for the time being Two Doctors of the Civil Law Two Common Lawyers and eight grave or discréet Merchants or any five of them which Commissioners or the greater part of them which
HONI · SOIT · QVI MAL · Y · PENSE DIEV · ET · MON · DROIT · A COLLECTION OF THE STATUTES Made in the REIGNS of King Charles the I. AND King Charles the II. With the ABRIDGMENT of such as stand Repealed or Expired Continued after the Method of Mr. PULTON WITH Notes of References one to the other as they now stand Altered Enlarged or Explained TO WHICH ALSO ARE ADDED The Titles of all the Statutes and Private Acts of PARLIAMENT Passed by their said MAJESTIES untill this present Year M.DC.LXVII With a TABLE directing to the Principal Matters of the said STATUTES By THO MANBY of Lincolns-Inn Esq LONDON Printed by John Streater James Flesher and Henry Twyford Assigns of Richard Atkyns and Edward Atkyns Esquires Anno Dom. 1667. Cum Gratia Privilegio Regiae Majestatis A View and Digest of the Heads and Titles of the several STATUTES from the First Year of King CHARLES the First untill this present time according to the Order of Statutes in this Book mentioned Anno Primo CAROLI primi nuper Regis Angliae c. 1 AN Act for punishing of divers Abuses on the Lords Day called Sunday Cap. 1. Fol. 1. 2 An Act to enable the King to make Leases of Lands parcel of his Highness Dutchy of Cornwal or annexed to the same Cap. 2. fol. 1. 3 An Act for the Ease of obtaining Licences of alienation and in the pleading of alienations with Licence or of Pardons of alienations without Licence in the Court of Exchequer or elsewhere Cap. 3. fol. 2. See Stat. 12 Car. 2. cap. 24. 4 An Act for the further Restraint of Tipling in Inns Ale-houses and other Victualling-houses Cap. 4. fol. 2. 5 An Act for the Confirmation of the Subsidies granted by the Clergy Cap. 5. fol. 3. EXP. 6 An Act for the Grant of two entire Subsidies granted by the Temporalty Cap. 6. fol. 3. 7 An Act that this Session of Parliament shall not determine by his Majesties Royal Assent to this and some other Acts Cap. 7. fol. 3. Anno Tertio Caroli Primi Regis c. THe Petition exhibited to his Majesty by the Lords Spiritual and Temporal and Commons in this present Parliament assembled concerning divers Rights and Liberties of the Subject with the Kings Majesties Royal Answer thereunto in full Parliament Folio 3. 1 An Act for the further Reformation of sundry abuses committed on the Lords Day commonly called Sunday Cap. 1. fol. 5. 2 An Act to Restrain the passing or sending of any to be Popishly bred beyond the Seas Cap. 2. fol. 5. 3 An Act for the better suppressing of Unlicensed Ale-house-keepers Cap. 3. fol. 6. 4. An Act for Continuance of divers Statutes and for Repeal of divers others Cap. 4. fol. 7. 5 An Act for the establishing of the Estates of the Tenants of Bromfeild and Yale in the County of Denbigh and of the Tenures Rents and Services thereupon reserved according to a late composition made for the same with the Kings Majesty then Prince of Wales Cap. 5. fol. 11. 6 An Act for Confirmation of the Subsidies granted by the Clergy Cap. 6. fol. 11. EXP. 7 An Act for the grant of Five entire Subsidies granted by the Temporalty Anno Quarto Caroli Regis Cap. 7. fol. 11. Anno Decimo sexto decimo septimo Caroli Primi Regis c. 1 AN Act for the preventing of Inconveniences happening by the long intermission of Parliaments Cap. 1. fol. 11. Rep. and Alt. 16 Car. 2. cap. 1. 2 An Act for the Relief of his Majesties Army and the Northern Parts of this Kingdom Cap. 2. fol. 11. EXP. 3 An Act for the Reforming of some things mistaken in the late Act made in this Parliament for the granting of Four Subsidies Entituled An Act for the Relief of his Majesties Army in the Northern Parts c. Cap. 3. fol. 11. EXP. Anno decimo septimo Caroli Primi Regis c. 4 AN Act for the further Relief of his Majesties Army in the Northern Parts of this Kingdom Cap. 4. Fol. 11. 5 An Act for the better raising and levying of Marriners Saylers and others for the present Guarding of the Seas Cap. 5. fol. 12. EXP. 6 An Act concerning the limitation and abbreviation of Michaelmas Term Cap. 6. fol. 12. 7 An Act to prevent Inconveniences which may happen by the untimely Adjourning Proroguing or dissolving of this present Parliament Cap. 7. fol. 14. EXP. 8 A Subsidy granted to the King of Tunnage and Poundage and other sums of money payable upon Merchandizes Exported and Imported Cap. 8. fol. 14. EXP. 9 An Act for the speedy Provision of Money for Disbanding of the Army and setling the Peace of the two Kingdoms of England and Scotland Cap. 9. fol. 14. EXP. 10 An Act for Regulating the Privy Council and taking away the Court commonly called the Star-Chamber Cap. 10. fol. 14. 11 An Act for Repeal of a Branch of a Statute 1 Eliz. concerning Commissioners for Causes Ecclesiastical Cap. 11. fol. 16. 12 A Subsidy granted to the King of Tunnage and Poundage and other Sums of money payable upon Merchandise Exported and Imported Cap. 12. fol. 17. EXP. 13 An Act for securing of Moneys due or to be due to the Inhabitants of the County of York and other adjoyning Counties wherein his Majesties Army is or hath been Billited c. Cap. 13. fol. 18. EXP. 14 An Act Declaring unlawful and void the late proceeding touching Ship-Money and for the vacating of all Records and Process concerning the same Cap. 14. fol. 18. 15 An Act against divers Incroachments and oppressions in the Stannary Courts Cap. 14. fol. 19. 16 An Act for the certainty of Forrests and of the Meers Meets Limits and Bounds of the Forest Cap. 6. fol. 21. 17 An Act for the Confirmation of the Treaty of Pacification of England and Scotland Cap. 17. fol. 22. EXP. 18 An Act for securing the Publique Faith the remainder of the friendly assistance and relief promised to our Brethren of Scotland Cap. 18. fol. 22. EXP. 19 An Act for the Regulating of the Clerk of the Market and for the Reformation of false Weights and Measures Cap. 19. fol. 22. 20 An Act to prevent vexatious proceeding touching the Order of Knight-hood Cap. 20. fol. 24. 21 An Act for the free bringing in Gun-powder and Salt-Peter from foreign Parts and for the free making of Gun-powder in this Realm Cap. 21. fo 24 22 A Subsidy granted to the King of Tunnage and Poundage and other Sums of money payable upon Merchandise Exported and Imported Cap. 22. fol. 25. 23 An Act for the Raising of Mariners and Saylers for the Guarding of the Seas and his Majesties Dominions Cap. 23. fol. 25. EXP. 24 An Act to relieve Captives taken by the Turks and to prevent the taking of others hereafter Cap. 24. fol. 25. EXP. 25 A Subsidy granted to the King of Tunnage and Poundage and other Sums of money payable upon Merchandizes Exportable and Importable Cap. 25.
The Essoin dayes and the Essoin day of the Return of Crastino Sanctae Trinitatis And be it further enacted Writs in personal actions hauing day from tres Michaelis till Crastino Ascentionis good Proviso for writs returnable 1641. Exp. That all Writs and Process in personal Acttions hereafter to be made out of any of his Majesties said Courts at Westminster and having day from tres Michaelis untill Crastino Animarum shall be good and effectual in Law notwithstanding there be not fiftéen dayes betwixt the quarto die of the said tres septimanas sancti Michaelis and the dayes of Essoin of Crastino Animarum Any Law Statute or Vsage to the contrary heretofore notwithstanding Provided alwayes and be if further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid that all writs and Process to be made from and after the Feast of Easter in the year of our Lord God 1641. Returnable in Octabis or Quindena sancti Michaelis now next ensuing or having dayes betwixt any of the said Returns shall by force of this Act have day unto tres septimanas sancti Michaelis next and the parties to the said writs and Process shall then appear and plead and procéed thereupon to all intents and purposes as if the said Writs and Process had béen made returnable a die sancti Michaelis in tres septimanas And whereas before the making of this Act Writs of summons ad Warrantizandum upon common recoveries and writs of Right of Advowson abridged to five Returns all Writs of Summons ad Warrantizand against the Vouchées upon Common Recoveries had in writs of Entry and writs of Right of Advowson were made for nine Returns inclusive Now for the more spéedy perfecting of such Recoveries Be it Enacted by the Authority aforesaid that from and after the said Feast of Saint Michael the Archangel next all and every such writs of Summons ad Warrantizand upon the appearance of the Tenant to every such writ of Entry and writ of Right of Advowson shall and may be made and abridged to five Returns as writs of Summons ad Warrantizand in writs of Dower unde nihil habet heretofore have been used and accustomed And it is further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid that all common writs and Process Common writs process to keep the aforesaid returns as well personal as mixt which shall fortune to be returnable in the said Michaelmas Term shall have and kéep the said Returns of A die sancti Michaelis in tres septimanas a die sancti Michaelis in unum mensem in Crastino animarum in Crastino Sancti Martini in Octabis Sancti Martini and a die Sancti Martini in Quindecem dies or any of them Provided alwayes And it is further Enacted by the authority aforesaid Special dayes may be appointed as have been used Dayes in assise of Darrein presentment and in plea of quare impedit and in attaint not contrary hereto shall be firm that in such and like cases and Process as special dayes have béen used to be appointed and assigned and given for the returning of writs and Process It shall be lawful to the Iustices of every of the Kings said Courts of Record for the time being in all the Process by them awarded to assign and appoint special dayes of Returns as by their discretions shall be thought convement Provided also and be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That the dayes in Assise of Darrein presentment and in Plea of Quare Impedit limited and appointed by the Statute of Marlebridge and also the dayes to be given in Attaint limited in the Statute made in the fifth year of the Reign of the Noble King Edward the third And also in the Statute made in the thrée and twentieth year of the Raign of the late King Henry the eighth of worthy memory being not contrary to the Tenours of this Act shall be holden firm and stable and shall stand in their full force and effect CAP. VII 1 Stat. 12. Car. 2. cap. 1. This Parliament shall not be Dissolved Prorogued or Adjourned but by Act of Parliament EXP. CAP. VIII Tunnage and Poundage A Subsidy Granted to the King of Tunnage Poundage and other sums of Money payable upon Merchandize Exported and Imported from the 25th of May 1641. to the 14th of July next EXP. CAP. IX Provision of Money for the speedy Disbanding the Armies and setling the Peace of the two Kingdoms of England and Scotland by raising and charging several sums of Money upon persons according to their Ranks Dignities Offices Callings Estates and Qualities therein mentioned and Commissioners to issue for levying the same EXP. CAP. X. For Regulating the Privy Councel and for taking away the Star-Chamber-Court Recital of Maâ—â—-Châ—rlâ— and several Statutes St. 3. li. 7. 1. 5 E. 3. cap. 9. VVHereas by the Great Charter many times confirmed in Parliament It is Enacted That no Fréeman shall be taken or imprisoned or disseised of his Fréehold or Liberties or Frée Customs or be Outlawed or exiled or otherwise destroyed and that the King will not pass upon him or condemn him but by lawful Iudgment of his Péers or by the Law of the Land And by another Statute made in the fifth year of the Reign of King Edward the Third It is Enacted That no man shall be attached by any accusation nor fore-judged of life or limb nor his Lands Tenements Goods nor Chattels seised into the Kings hands against the form of the Great Charter and the Law of the Land and by another Statute made in the five and twentieth year of the Reign of the same King Edward the Third 25 E. 3. cap. 4. Stat. 5. It is accorded assented and established that none shall be taken by petition or suggestion made to the King or to his Councel unless it be by Indictment or Presentment of good and lawful people of the same Neighbourhood where such Déeds be done in due manner or by Process made by Writ Original at the Common Law and that none be put out of his Franchise or Free-hold unless he be duly brought in to answer and foreiudged of the same by the course of the Law and if any thing be done against the same it shall be redressed and holden for none 28 E. 3. cap. 3. And by another Statute made in the eight and twentieth year of the reign of the same King Edward the Third It is amongst other things Enacted That no man of what Estate or condition soever he be shall be put out of his Lands or Tenements nor taken nor imprisoned nor disinherited without being brought in to answer by due process of Law And by another Statute made in the two and fortieth year of the Reign of the said King Edward the Third 42 E. 3. c. 3. It is Enacted That no man be put to answer without presentment before Iustices or matter of Record or by due process and writ original according to the Old Law of
by which the Meets Meers Limits or Bounds of the said Forrests or any of them are or are pretended to be further extended then as aforesaid And also all and every Presentment of any person or persons at any Iustice seat Swainemote or Court of Attachments for or by reason or by colour of any Act or Acts whatsoever done or committed in any place without or beyond the said Méets Méers Limits or Bounds respectively so commonly known reputed used or taken as aforesaid and all and every Fine and Fines and amerciament and amerciaments upon by reason or colour of any such Presentment or Presentments shall from henceforth be adjudged déemed and taken to be utterly void and of no force or effect any Law Statute Record or pretence whatsoever to the contrary notwithstanding And be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid No place where no Iustice seat Swainemote cour◠or attachment c. hath been within 〈◊〉 yeares shall be accompted Forrest That no place or places within this Realm of England or Dominion of Wales where no such Iustice seat Swainemote or Court of Attachment have been held or kept or where no Verderers have been chosen or regard made within the space of sixty years next before the first year of his Majesties Reign that now is shall be at any time hereafter judged déemed or taken to be Forrest or within the Bounds or Meets of the Forrests But the same shall be from thenceforth for ever hereafter De-afforrested and freed and exempted from the Forrests Laws Any Iustice-seat Swainemote or Court of Attachment held or kept within or for any such place or places at any time or times since the beginning of His Majesties said Reign or any presentment enquiry Act or thing heretofore made or hereafter to be made or done to the contrary notwithstanding Provided also and be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid For ascertaining of Meets c. Commissions shall be issued That for the better putting into certainty all and every the Meets Meers Bounds and Limits of all and every the Forrests as aforesaid The Lord-Chancellour or Lord-Keeper of the Great Seal of England for the time being shall by vertue of this Act upon request of any of the Peers of this Kingdome or of the Knights and Burgesses of the Parliament or any of them grant severall Commissions under the Great Seal of England to Commissioners to be nominated respectively by the said Péers Knights and Burgesses or any of them to enquire of and find out by Inquests of good and lawful men upon Oath and by the Oaths of Witnesses to be produced at the said Inquests and by all other lawful means all and every the Méers Méets Bounds and Limits of the Forrests respectively which were commonly known to be their Méers Meets Bounds and Limits respectively in the said twentieth year of the Reign of our late Soveraign Lord King James And to return the Inquests so taken into the Court of Chancery and that all and every the Sheriffs and Bailiffs of and in every County wherein any such Inquests shall be so to be taken And all and every the Verderers Forresters Rangers and other Officers of the Forrests respectively where any such Officers be shall be assistant and attendant to the execution of the said Commissions according as by vertue of the said Commissions respectively they shall be commanded And where no such Officers are or where such Officers be if they or any of them shall refuse or neglect such assistance and attendance as aforesaid Then the said Commissioners shall and may procéed without them in the execution of the said Commissions Forrests shall not extend beyond the meets c. so returned And be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That the Forrests whereof the Méets Méers Limits and Bounds be so returned and certified by vertue of any the said Commissions as aforesaid from thenceforth shall not extend nor be extended nor be déemed adjudged or taken to extend any further in any wise then the Méets Méers Limits and Bounds that shall be so returned and certified And that all the places and Territories that shall be without the Méets Méers Limits and Bounds so returned and certified shall be and are hereby declared to be from thenceforth free to all intents and purposes as if the same had never béen Forrest or so reputed Any Act or Acts matter or thing whatsoever to the contrary thereof notwithstanding Grounds deafforrested shall be excluded Provided and be it further Enacted by Authority aforesaid That all and every the grounds Territories or places which have béen or are De-afforrested or mentioned to be De-afforrested in or by any Letters Patents Charters or otherwise since the said twentieth year of the Reign of our said late Soveraign Lord King James shall be excluded and left out of the Méets Méers Limits and Bounds of the Forrests which are to be enquired of returned and certified by vertue of the said Commissions or any of them respectively And shall be and hereby are declared and Enacted to be utterly De-afforrested frée and exempt to all intents and purposes as if the same had never béen at all Forrest or so reputed Any thing in this present Act contained or any other Act matter or thing whatsoever to the contrary in any wise notwithstanding Tenants Owners c. of lands excluded shall enjoy their ancient commission c. Provided nevertheless and be it Enacted That the Tenants Owners and Occupiers and every of them of Lands and Tenements which shall be excluded and left out of the Méets Méers Limits or Bounds of the Forrests to be returned and certified by vertue of any the said Commissions shall or may use and enjoy such Common and other profits and easements within the Forrest as anciently or accustomably they have used and enjoyed Any thing in this present Act contained or any Act or Ordinance made in the thrée and thirtieth year of King Edward the first or any Custome or Law of the Forrest or any other matter or thing to the contrary thereof notwithstanding CAP. XVII Scotland A confirmation of the Treaty of Pacification between England and Scotland with the Commissions and Articles thereupon EXP. CAP. XVIII For securing by publick Faith the remainder of the friendly assistance and relief promised to those of Scotland Scotland EXP. CAP. XIX The Office of Clerk the Market allowed and regulated for the reformation of Weights and Measures Grievances by Clerks of the Market and anequality in weights and measures FOrasmuch as the undue execution of the Office of Clerk of the Market hath béen very grievous unto divers of his Majesties most loving Subjects who have béen much troubled by unnecessary Summons and charged with exactions of divers sums of Money by colour of the said Office and in regard the said evils have partly arisen by means of an inequality of Weights and Measures throughout this Kingdom◠and by granting
and singular the said Pleas Writs Bills Actions Suits Plaints Process Precepts and other the Premises aforesaid shall stand continue and be good and effectual in Law to all Intents and Purposes as if the said Returns and dayes and every of them had béen actually kept and holden in all and every the said Courts Any Law Statute Custome or Vsage to the contrary thereof in any wise notwithstanding The said Writs Process Pleas c. returnable pleadable at a certain day And be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That all Pleas Writs Bills Actions Suits Plaints Process Precepts and other thing or things whatsoever aforesaid pleadable or to be pleaded Returnable or to be Returned or having day in any manner whatsoever at any of the said Returns or any day or dayes certain after any of the said Returns Be and are hereby continued and adjourned unto and shall and may be Pleaded Returned Heard and Determined in the respective Courts aforesaid at or on the fifth Return of the said Term of late called In the morrow of the Ascension of our Lord And that all parties in any Pleas Writs Bills Actions Suits Plaints Process or other thing or things whatsoever having dayes given them at any of the said four first Returns or at any other day or dayes certain after any of the said Returns in the said Courts or any of them by vertue of this present Act have the said Return of late called In the morrow of the Ascension of our Lord prefixed them therein And that all Sheriffs Officers and other Ministers whatsoever and every of them respectively kéep in their hands all Writs Bills Process and Precepts and all other things whatsoever in them directed respectively Returnable or to be Returned in the several Courts aforesaid at the said four first Returns or any of them in or at any day certain as aforesaid until the said fifth Return of late called The morrow of the Ascension of our Lord and then Return the same into the said several Courts respectively That such proceedings may be then had thereupon as should have béen had in case the said four first Returns had béen kept and holden And be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That no Writs Process Plaints Process Writs Pleas c. under certain titles and names may be prosecuted and proceeded upon Pleas Informations Indictments or Iudicial proceedings had Commenced or prosecuted before the fifth day of May in the said year of our Lord one thousand six hundred sixty in the Name Stile Title or Test of Custodes Libertatis Angliae Authoritate Parliamenti or in the Name Stile Title or Test of The Keepers of the Liberty of England by Authority of Parliament or in the Name Stile Title or Test of Oliver Lord Protector of the Commonwealth of England Scotland and Ireland and the Dominions thereunto belonging or in the Name Stile Title or Test of Oliver Lord Protector of the Commonwealth of England Scotland and Ireland and the Dominions and Territories thereunto belonging or in the Name Stile Title or Test of Richard Lord Protector of the Commonwealth of England Scotland and Ireland and the Dominions and Territories thereunto belonging shall be put without day abated quashed or discontinued by his Majesties most just re-assumption of the actual Exercise of his Kingly Government in this Kingdom nor shall the same be cause of Errour Abatement or Discontinuance but that all such Writs Process Plaints Pleas Informations Indictments and Iudicial Procéedings and all Commissions for taking of Answers or Examination of Witnesses Commission for taking of Fines and Warrants of Attorney Guardians or Prochein-Amy shall stand and be continued and shall and may be procéeded upon prosecuted and returned notwithstanding the same were commenced or prosecuted in English and notwithstanding the present happy Change and Restitution of his Majesties Name and Stile in Iudicial Procéedings And be it further Enacted by the authority aforesaid Process and proceedings in English in Courts of Iustice to continue EXP. That one pretended Act made in the year of our Lord 1650. entituled An Act for turning the Books of the Law and all Process and Proceedings in Courts of Justice into English shall stand and be in force as if the same had béen a good and effectual Act from the first Return of Easter Term in the year of our Lord 1651. untill the first day of August in the year of our Lord 1660. and no longer And whereas by one other pretended Act made in the said year of our Lord 1650. entituled An Act touching Corn and Meal It was Enacted or mentioned to be Enacted That from and after the twentieth day of November 1650. It should and might be lawfull to and for any person or persons Defendant or Tenant for or by reason of any matter to be pleaded set forth or alledged in Bar to any Action Real Personal or mixt in any Court of Record to plead the General Issue of Not Guilty or the like General Issue proper to the Nature of the Action or Suit commenced and for his or their Discharge or Acquitting to give any such matter in evidence to the Iury that shall try the same and that the said matter shall be as available to such person or persons Defendant or Tenant to all intents and purposes as if the said matter had béen specially pleaded set forth or alledged in Bar of such action Be it further Enacted That the said pretended Act Pleading the General Issue as touching the pleading of the General Issue shall by authority hereof stand and be in full force and effect according to the Tenor thereof until the said first day of August as if the same had béen a good and effectual Act of Parliament EXP. and no longer Provided alwayes That where the General Issue hath béen since the said twentieth day of November 1660. pleaded or shall before the said first day of August in the said year of our Lord 1660. be pleaded in any action That then upon the Tryal of the said Cause such Evidence shall and may be allowed as if the said pretended Act touching the pleading of the General Issue had béen and continued a good and effectual Act of Parliament not determined or discontinued Provided also That his Majesties Royal assent to the passing of this Bill shall not extend His Majesties Assent to this Bill doth not determine the Session All Writs Patents Commissions c. to issue in the Kings name as formerly or be construed to extend to the determining of the Session of this present Parliament Provided nevertheless and be it Enacted That all Writs Patents and Commissions for Constituting Iustices of either Bench and Barons of the Exchequer Commissions of Oyer and Terminer and Gaol-Delivery and Precepts upon Commissions of Oyer and Terminer and Gaol-Delivery and all other Commissions hereafter to be made by the Clerk of the Crown in the Chancery Charters and Letters Patents under the
Parliament or of or from any Convention or Assembly called or reputed or taking the Name of the Kéepers of the Liberty of England by Authority of Parliament Or by vertue or colour of any Writ Commission Letters Patents Instruction or Instructions of or from any person or persons Tituled reputed or taken to be Lord Protector of the Commonwealth of England Scotland and Ireland and the Dominions thereunto belonging or Lord Protector of the Commonwealth of England Scotland and Ireland and the Dominions and Territories thereto belonging or assuming the authority or reputed to be chief Magistrate of the Commonwealth or Commander in chief of the Forces or Armies of this Nation by Sea or Land or by any pretence Warrant or Command whatsoever from them or any of them or their or either of their respective Councils or Council or any Member of such Council or Councils or from any person or persons whatsoever deriving or pretending to derive Authority from them or any of them be pardoned Released Indempnified discharged and put in utter Oblivion And that all and every the person and persons Acting Advising Assisting Abetting and Counselling the same they their Heirs Executors and Administrators except as before is excepted be and are hereby pardoned Released Acquitted Indempnified and discharged from the same And of and from all pains of Death and other Pains Iudgments Indictments Convictions Attainders Outlawries Penalties Escheats and Forfeitures therefore had or given or that might accrew for the same And that all such Iudgments Indictments Convictions Attainders Outlawries Penalties Escheats and Forfeitures and every of them and all Grants thereupon made and all Estates derived under the same be and are hereby Declared and Enacted to be from henceforth Null and void And that all mean profits not yet received by such Grantées shall be and are hereby discharged And that all and every person and persons Bodies Politick and Corporate their and every of their Heirs Executors Administrators and Successors shall be and are hereby restored to all and every their Lands Tenements and Hereditaments Goods Chattels and other things forfeited which to His Majesty do or shall appertain by reason of any offence herein before mentioned and not hereafter in this present Act Excepted and Foreprised All Appeals personal Actions and Suits pardoned And be it further Enacted That all Appeals and all personal Actions Suits Molestations and Prosecutions whatsoever for or by reason of any Act of Hostility Trespass Assault Imprisonment or breach of the Peace Advised Counselled commanded Appointed Happened Acted or done by reason of the late troubles or the late Wars in his Majesties Dominions or relating thereunto and Iudgments and Executions thereupon had before the first day of May in the Year of our Lord One thousand six hundred fifty eight stand and be from henceforth discharged But not to restore to any Person or Persons any sums of money mean Profits or Goods already received or taken upon such Execution or to give any accompt for the same And be it likewise Enacted That all Appeals and all personal Actions and causes of such Actions Suits Molestations and Prosecutions whatsoever for or by reason of any Act or thing advised counselled commanded Acted or done by vertue or colour of any Authority or Commission granted by His late Majesty or his Majesty that now is or by vertue or colour of any Order or Ordinance of one or both Houses of Parliament sitting at Westminster Or by any Act or order made by any Persons assuming the name of a Parliament and sitting as a Parliament at Westminster after the death of the late King CHARLES the First Or by the Authority of the said kéepers of the Liberties of England Or by any Ordinance by either of the late Protectors and Council Or by or upon any Commission Writ Process or Warrant by them or any of them or by Authority derived from them or any of them And all demands of Arrearages of Rents and mean Profits of Lands Tenements or Hereditaments heretofore incurred or grown due which have béen paid received or disposed by vertue or colour of any the Authorities or pretended Authorities aforesaid other then such Arrearages or mean profits as are or shall be otherwise disposed by any Act. or Acts of this present Session of Parliament be from henceforth discharged And it is further by the Authority aforesaid Enacted in the second place That all and every the Subjects of these His Majesties Realms of England and Ireland the Dominion of Wales the Isles of Jersey and Garnsey and the Town of Berwick upon Tweed and other His Majesties Dominions the Heirs Executors and Administrators of them and every of them and all and singular Bodies in any manner of wise corporated Cities Burroughs Shires Ridings Hundreds Lathes Rapes Wapentakes Towns Villages Hamlets and Tythings and every of them and the Successor and Successors of every of them shall be and are by the authority of this present Parliament Acquitted Pardoned Released Indempnified and Discharged against the Kings Majesty his Heirs and Successors and every of them of and from all manner of Treasons Misprisions of Treason Felonies Offences Contempts Trespasses Entries Wrongs Deceits Misdemeanors Forfeitures penalties and sums of Money Intrusions Mean profits Wardships Marriages Reliefs Liveries Ouster le mains Mean Rates Respits of Homage Fines and Seisures for Alienation without License Arrearages of Rents other then the Arrearages of Rents due from the late Farmers or pretended Farmers of of the Excise or Customs respectively other then such Arrearages of Rents or Mean profits as are or shall be otherwise disposed by any Act or Acts of this present Parliament and of and from all Arrearages of Tenths and First-Fruits Fines post-fines Issues and Amerciaments and all Recognizances Bonds or other Securities given for payment of them or any of them concealments of Customs and Excise Arrearages of purveyance and of compositions for the same and of and from all pains of Death pains corporal and pecuniary and generally of and from all other Things Causes Quarrels Suits Iudgments and Executions in this present Act hereafter not Excepted nor Foreprized which may be or can be by his Majesty in any wise or by any means pardoned before and unto the twenty fourth day of June in the year of our Lord One thousand six hundred and sixty to every or any of his said Subjects Wardships and Mean Profits unreceived Bodies Corporate Cities Burroughs Shires Ridings Hundreds Lathes Rapes Wapentakes Towns Villages and Tithings or any of them And be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That all Grants and Patents since the twenty fifth of March One thousand six hundred forty one touching the Wardship and Custody of the Body and Lands or touching the marriage of any Heir within age and all mean profits yet unreceived All things not excepted shall be by the general words of this Act as well as it particularly named and demandable by reason thereof shall be
Hereditaments Escheated or Forfeited by reason of such Attainder and all Title to any Measne Profits by reason of such Conviction Outlawry Attainder or Grant be from henceforth repealed and discharged And that all Escheats Forfeitures and Confiscations by reason of such Outlawries Conviction or Attainder Be and are hereby restored unto such persons so Outlawed Convicted or Attainted their Heirs Executors and Administrators respectively as if no such Attainder had béen Sales made by Ordinance of Parliament Provided Nevertheless And be it Enacted That this Act or any thing herein contained shall not extend to avoid or confirm any Sales or Estates made by vertue or pretence of any Act Order or Ordinance or reputed Act Order or Ordinance of Parliament since the first day of May in the Year of our Lord One thousand six hundred forty two nor any Confirmation thereof made or to be made thereof in this present Parliament but that such sales stand and be in the same plight and condition as they should or might have done if this Act had not béen made Recognizances Obligations c. in the names of the late Protector And be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That all Recognizances Obligations or other Securities made or given to the Kéepers of the Liberty of England by Authority of Parliament or to Oliver Lord Protector of the Commonwealth of England Scotland and Ireland and the Dominions thereunto belonging or to Oliver Lord Protector of the Common-wealth of England Scotland and Ireland and the Dominions and Territories thereunto belonging Or to Richard Lord Protector of the Commonwealth of England Scotland and Ireland and the Dominions and Territories thereunto belonging and not pardoned or discharged by any Act passed or to be passed this present Parliament or otherwise other then such Recognizances Obligations and Securities as have béen made and given to any the pretended power or persons aforesaid or to any deriving or pretending to derive Authority from them by any person or persons for or by reason of their adherence to His Majesty or His said late Royal Father or relating to or arising only upon or in respect of the late Troubles All which are hereby declared to be void and to be delivered up to be Cancelled And all Iudgments Extents Inquisitions Executions and Seizures had for the said Kéepers or Protectors or any of them and not likewise pardoned or discharged other then as aforesaid shall and may be had and prosecuted in the name and to the use of his Majesty his Heirs or Successors and also excepting all Obligations Bonds or Recognizances entred into to the said Kéepers or Protectors or any of them by any person or persons by Order or Direction of any Council of State Committée of Safety Major Generals Decimators or any Officer or other person under them or any other Military power all which Obligations Bonds and Recognizances are hereby discharged and declared to be null and void to all intents and purposes Provided also and be it Enacted That this Act or any thing therein contained Iustices Serjeants c. Commissioners of Sewers shall not extend to continue after the Eighth day of May in the year of our Lord One thousand six hundred and sixty any Iustice or Iustices of one Bench or the other or Barons of the Exchequer Serjeants at Law Commissions of Sewers Commissions of Bankrupts or of charitable uses made or constituted by or in the Name or Stile of any the late pretended powers or authorities Provided alwayes That it shall and may be lawful to and for every person and persons Writs of Errour may be brought who shall find themselves grieved or damnified by any Iudgment Fine Recovery Decrée or Sentence given made levied granted or pronounced in any of the said Courts to procéed in due form of Law either by Writ of Errour Bill of Review Appeal or other lawful remedy for the Reversing Annulling or Revoking of the same in such manner as they might at any time heretofore have done if the said Courts had béen established by lawful Authority other then for those Errours and Defects which are remedied or provided for by this Act. Provided alwayes And be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid Non-claim upon Fines of lands sold by Ordinance of Parliament That no Non-claim upon or after any Fine or Fines hereby made good or confirmed shall extend or be construed to Bar or Prejudice any person or persons their Heirs or Successors or their Feoffées or Trustées other then the parties to the said Fines and their Heirs general and special and his and their Trustées as concerning such Right Claim and Interest as they had in or to any Lands Tenements or other Hereditaments which by colour of any Act Order or Ordinance of both or either Houses of Parliament or any Convention sitting at Westminster under the Name or Stile or assuming the Name or Stile of a Parliament since the First day of May in the year of our Lord One thousand six hundred forty and two and before the Five and twentieth day of April in the year of our Lord one thousand six hundred and sixty were Sold Conveyed or Disposed as then or late the Lands Tenements and Hereditaments of the King Quéen or Prince or of Archbishops Bishops Deans Deans and Chapters or other Ecclesiastical persons or as the Lands Tenements and Hereditaments of any other persons for their Adherency to the late King or his Majesty that now is or for any their Actings relating to or in respect of the late Troubles so alwayes that the said person or persons aforesaid their Heirs or Successors pursue their Title Claim or Interest by way of Action or lawful Entry within five years next after the Nine and twentieth day of May in the year of our Lord one thousand six hundred and sixty And although in this Confirmation of Iudicial Procéedings The late Government declared to be usurped it was necessary to mention Divers pretensed Acts and Ordinances by the Names and Stiles which those Persons then Vsurped who took upon them to pass the same Namely some by the Stile and Name of the Kéepers of the Liberty of England by Authority of Parliament and others by the Name and Stile of Protectors of the Commonwealth of England Scotland and Ireland and the Dominions and Territories thereunto belonging Yet this present Parliament doth Declare and it is further Enacted by Authority of the same That the Names and Stiles aforesaid and every of them are most Rebellious Wicked Trayterous and Abominable Vsurpations Detested by this present Parliament Recognition of his Majesties just title as Opposite in the Highest Degrée to His Sacred Majesties most Iust and Vndoubted Right to whom and to his Heirs and Lawful Successors the Imperial Crowns of the Realms of England Scotland and Ireland with their and every of their Dominions and Territories do of Right appertain and as violating and Infringing the just Rights and
c. That if any Officer of the Customs shall from and after the said First day of April allow the priviledge of being a Ship or Vessel to England Ireland Wales or Town of Berwick or any of them belonging to any Forreign built Ship or Vessel untill such Certificate be before them produced or such Proof and oath taken before them or if any Officer of the Customs shall allow the priviledge of an English built ship or other Ship to any the aforesaid places belonging to any English or Forrien built Ship coming into any Port and making entry of any Goods untill Examination whether the Master and thrée Fourths of the Mariners be English or shal allow to any Forreign built ship bringing in the Commodities of the Growth of the Country where it was built the priviledge by this Act to such Ship given untill Examination and Proof whether it be a ship of the built of that Country and that the Master and thrée Fourths of the Mariners are of that Country or if any Person who is or shall be made Governor of any Lands Islands Plantations or Territories in Africa Asia or America by his Majesty His Heirs or Successors shall suffer any Forrein built Ship or Vessel to load or unload any Goods or Commodities within the Precincts of their Goverments untill such Certificate be produced before them or such as shall be by them appointed to view the same and Examination whether the Master and thrée Fourths of the Mariners at least be English that for the first offence such Officer of the Customs and Governors shall be put out of their places Offices or Governments Provided alwayes That this Act or any thing therein contained extend not Proviso for goods of the Streights or Levant or be meant to restrain and prohibite the Importation of any the Commodities of the Streights or Levant Seas loaden in English built shipping and wherof the Master and thrée fourths of the Mariners at least are English from the usual Ports or places for lading of them heretofore within the said Streights or Levant Seas though the said Commodities be not of the very growth of the said places Provided also that this Act or any thing therein contained extend not or be meant to restrain the Importing of any East India Commodities loaden in English built shipping and whereof the Master and thrée fourths of the Mariners at least are English from the usual place or places for lading of them in any part of those Seas to the South-Ward and Eastward of Cabo bona speranza although the Ports be not thâ—â—bery Places of their growth Provided also That it shall and may be lawful to and for any of the people of England Ireland East India Commodities Proviso for goods imported from Spain Portugal Azores Madera or Canary Islands Wales Islands of Guernsey or Jersey or town of Berwick upon Tweed in Vessels or Ships to them belonging and whereof the Master and thrée fourths of the Mariners at least are English to load and bring in from any of the Ports of Spain or Portugal or Western Islands commonly called Azores or Madera or Canary Islands all sorts of Goods or Commodities of the Growth Production or Manufacture of the Plantation or Dominions of either of them respectively Proviso for Bullion and goods taken by way of Repâ—isal Provided That this Act or any thing therein contained extend not to Bullion nor yet to any Goods taken or that shall be bona fide taken by way of Reprisal by any Ship or Ships belonging to England Ireland or Wales Islands of Guernsey or Jersey or Town of Berwick upon Tweed and whereof the Master and thrée Fourths of the Mariners at feast are English having Commission from his Majesty his Heirs or Successors Proviso concerning goods of Scotland Provided alwayes That this Act or any thing therein contained shall not extend or be construed to extend to lay Aliens Duties upon any Corn of the growth of Scotland or to any Salt made in Scotland nor to any Fish caught saved and cured by the People of Scotland and Imported directly from Scotland in Scotch built Ships Goods of Russia and whereof the Master and thrée Fourths of the Mariners are of His Maiesties Subiects nor to any Seal Oyl of Russia Imported from thence into England Ireland Wales or Town of Berwick upon Tweed in shipping bona fide to some of the said places belonging and whereof the Master and three Fourths of the Mariners at least are English The duty payable upon goods in French ships Provided also and it is hereby Enacted That every Ship or Vessel belonging to any the Subjects of the French King which from and after the Twentieth day of October in the year of our Lord one thousand six hundred and sixty shall come into any Port Creek Harbor of Road of England Ireland Wales or Town of Berwick upon Tweed and shall there lade or unlade any Goods or Commodities or take in or set on Shore any passengers shall pay to the Collector of His Majesties Customs in such Port Créek Harbor or Road for every Tun of which the said Ship or Vessel is of burthen How long to continue to be computed by such Officer of the Customs as shall be thereunto appointed the sum of five shillings currant money of England And that no such Ship or Vessel be suffered to depart out of such Port Créek Harbor or Road until the said Duty be fully paid And that this Duty shall continue to be Collected Levied and paid for such time as a certain Duty of Fifty Solls per Tun lately imposed by the French King or any part thereof shall continue to be Collected upon the shipping of England lading in France and thrée Moneths after and no longer Sugars tobacco c. of the growth of America Asia or Africa And it is further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That from and after the First day of April which shall be in the year of our Lord One thousand six hundred sixty one noe Sugars Tobacco Cotton-wooll Indicoes Ginger Fustick or other dying wood of the growth Production or Manufacture of any English Plantations in America Asia or Africa shall be shipped carried conveyed or transported from any the said English Plantations to any Land Island Territory Dominion Port or place whatsoever other then to such other English Plantations as do belong to His Majesty His Heirs and Successors or to the Kingdom of England or Ireland or Principality of Wales or Town of Berwick upon Tweed there to be laid on shore under the penalty of the Forfeiture of the said Goods or the full value thereof as also of the Ship with all her Guns Tackle Apparel Ammunition and Furniture The one Moyety to the Kings Majesty His Heirs and Successors and the other Moyety to him or them that shall seize inform or sue for the same in any Court of Record by Bill Plaint or Information wherein no Essoign
possible for the enemies of God and the King to bring upon us whilst the Fanatick Rage of a few Miscreants who were as far from being true Protestants as they were from being true Subjects stands imputed by our Adversaries to the whole Nation We therefore your Majesties said dutiful and Loyal Subjects the Lords and Commons in Parliament Assembled do hereby renounce abominate and protest against that Impious fact the execrable Murther and most unparallel'd Treason committed against the Sacred person and life of our said late Soveraign Your Maiesties most Royal Father and all procéedings tending thereunto and do beséech Your most Excellent Majesty that it may be declared That by the undoubted and Fundamental Laws of this Kingdom neither the Péers of this Realm nor the Commons nor both together in Parliament nor the people collectively or representatively nor any other persons whatsoever ever had have hath or ought to have any Coercive power over the persons of the Kings of this Realm And for the better vindication of our selves to posterity and as a lasting Monument of our otherwise inexpressible detestation and abhorrency of this villanous and abominable Fact We do further beséech Your most Excellent Majesty that it may be Enacted And be it hereby Enacted by the Kings most Excellent Majesty A yearly Anniversary of Humiliation on the â—0th of Ian. for ever by and with the advice and consent of the Lords and Commons in this present Parliament Assembled That every thirtieth day of January unless it falls out to be upon the Lords day and then the day next following shall be for ever hereafter set apart to be kept and observed in all the Churches and Chappels of these Your Majesties Kingdoms of England and Ireland Dominion of Wales and Town of Berwick upon Tweed and the Isles of Jersey and Guernsey and all other Your Majesties Dominions as an Anniversary day of Fasting and Humiliation to implore the Mercy of God that neither the guilt of that Sacred and Innocent Blood nor those other sins by which God was provoked to deliver up both us and our King into the hands of cruel and unreasonable men The attainder of the persons actively instrumental in the Murther of his late Majesty may at any time hereafter be visited upon us or our posterity And whereas Oliver Cromwel deceased Henry Ireton deceased John Bradshaw deceased and Thomas Pride deceased John Lisle William Say Sir Hardress Waller Valentine Wauton Thomas Harrison Edward Whalley William Heveningham Isaac Penington Henry Martin John Barkstead Gilbert Millington Edmund Ludlow Sir Michael Livesey Robert Titchbourn Owen Row Robert Lilburn Adrian Scroop John Okey John Hewson William Goffe Cornelius Holland Thomas Challoner John Carew John Jones Miles Corbet Henry Smith Gregory Clement Thomas Wogan Edmond Harvy Thomas Scot William Cawley John Downs Nicholas Love Vincent Potter Augustine Garland John Dixwel George Fleetwood Simon Meyne James Temple Peter Temple Daniel Blagrave Thomas Wayte John Cook Andrew Broughton Edward Dendy William Hewlet Hugh Peters Francis Hacker Daniel Axtel are notoriously known to have béen wicked and active Instruments in the prosecution and compassing that Trayterous Murther of his late Majesty for which the said Sir Hardress Waller Thomas Harrison William Heveningham Isaac Penington Henry Martin The names of the persons cryed and legally attainted Gilbert Millington Robert Titchbourn Owen Row Robert Lilbourn Adrian Scroop John Carew John Jones Henry Smith Gregory Clement Edmond Harvy Thomas Scot John Downs Vincent Potter Augustine Garland George Fleetwood Simon Meyne James Temple Peter Temple Thomas Wayte John Cook William Hewlet Hugh Peters Francis Hacker and Daniel Axtel have already received their Tryal at Law and by Verdict or their own Confession have béen convicted and by Iudgment of Law thereupon had do now stand duly and legally attainted of whom ten persons that is to say Thomas Harrison Adrian Scroop John Carew John Jones Thomas Scot The ten persons executed Gregory Clement John Cook Hugh Peters Francis Hacker and Daniel Axtel have most deservedly suffered the pains of death and béen executed according to Law and the said John Lisle The persons fled William Say Valentine Wauton Edward Whalley John Barkstead Edmond Ludlow Sir Michael Livesey John Okey John Hewson William Goffe Cornelius Holland Thomas Challoner Miles Corbet William Cawley Nicholas Love John Dixwell Daniel Blagrave Andrew Broughton and Edward Dendy are fled from Iustice not daring to abide a Legal Tryal May it therefore please your Majesty that it may be Enacted And be it Enacted by the Authority of this present Parliament The persons dead before they could be brought to tryal attainted The persons fled attainted That the said Oliver Cromwell deceased Henry Ireton deceased John Bradshaw deceased and Thomas Pride deceased shall by vertue of this Act be adjudged to be Convicted and Attainted of High Treason to all intents and purposes as if they and every of them respectively had béen Attainted in their lives And also that John Lisle William Say Valentine Wanton Edward Whalley John Barkstead Edmond Ludlow Sir Michael Livesey John Okey John Hewson William Goffe Cornelius Holland Thomas Challoner William Cawley Miles Corbet Nicholas Love John Dixwell Daniel Blagrave Andrew Broughton Edward Dendy and every of them stand and be adjudged and by Authority of this present Act Convicted and Attainted of High Treason Their Lands Tenements c. forfeited vested in his Majesty And that all and every the Manors Messuages Lands Tenements Rents Reversions Remainders Possessions Rights Conditions Interests Offices Fées Annuities and all other the Hereditaments Leases for years Chastels real and other things of that nature whatsoever they be of them the said Oliver Cromwell Henry Ireton John Bradshaw Thomas Pride John Lisle William Say Valentine Wauton Edward Whalley John Barkstead Edmond Ludlow Sir Michael Livesey John Okey John Hewson William Goffe Cornelius Holland Thomas Challoner William Cawley Miles Corbet Nicholas Love John Dixwell Daniel Blagrave Andrew Broughton Edward Dendy Thomas Harrison Adrian Scroop John Carew John Jones Thomas Scot Gregory Clement Hugh Peters Francis Hacker John Cook Daniel Axtel Sir Hardress Waller William Heveningham Isaac Penington Henry Martin Gilbert Millington Robert Titchbourn Owen Row Robert Lilbourn Henry Smith Edmond Harvey John Downs Vincent Potter Augustine Garland George Fleetwood Simon Meyne James Temple Peter Temple Thomas Wayte which they or any of them or any other person or persons to their or any of their uses or in trust for them or any of them had the Five and twentieth day of March Whereof they were seised or any for them 25 March 1646. in the year of our Lord One thousand six hundred forty and six or at any time since shall stand and be forfeited unto Your Majesty Your Heirs and Successors and shall be déemed vested and adjudged to be in the actual and real possession of your Majesty without any Office or Inquisition thereof hereafter to be taken or found And also
de droyt Ouster le maine or other Suit to his Maiesty enter on the premisses in his Majesties possession or in the possession of his Successors and Patentées their Heirs or Assigns in such manner to all intents as he or they might have done on the possession of the said Offenders their Heirs or Assigns in or upon the said twenty fifth day of March or at any time since Any thing in this Act to the contrary in any wise notwithstanding Proviso for such as have received paid their Rents to the Offenders Provided also That all and every person and persons which have received any of the Rents or mean profits of in or out of any the Lands Tenements and Hereditaments Chattels real or Possessions of any of the Offender or Offenders in this Act mentioned before the Eleventh day of February One thousand six hundred fifty and nine and have paid or accounted for the same before she said Eleventh day of February One thousand six hundred fifty and nine unto the said Offender or Offenders or their Assigns or to any claiming from or under them shall be clearly and for ever acquitted and discharged of and from the same against the Kings Majesty His Heirs and Successors any thing herein contained to the contrary notwithstanding Proviso for Richard Ingoldsby Provided alwayes That it shall and may be lawful to and for Richard Ingoldsby to retain and kéep or otherwise to sell and dispose all and singular the Goods and Chattels formerly belonging to Sir Hardress Waller in the Kingdom of Ireland untill two thousand pounds for which the said Richard Ingoldsby in the year One thousand six hundred fifty eight stood joyntly bound with the said Sir Hardress Waller unto James Brooks of the City of York Alderman and was then counter-secured by a Iudgment upon his Lands and since by a Déed of Bargain and Sale of the said Goods and Chattels in Ireland be fully paid together with the Interest thereof he the said Richard Ingolsby accounting for and paying the full overplus thereof if any shall be unto our Soveraign Lord the King Any thing herein before contained to the contrary notwithstanding St. 13 Car. 2. cap. 7. CAP. XXXI Leases and Grants from Colledges and Hospitals Confirmed CAP. XXXII Exportation of Wooll Woolfells Fullers Earth or any kind of Scouring Earth Prohibited FOR the better preventing and avoiding of such Losses and Inconveniencies as have happened and daily do and may happen to the Kingdom of England and Dominion of Wales and to the Kingdom of Ireland by and through the secret and subtile exportation and transportation and by and through the subtile carrying and conveying away of Wooll Woolfels Mortlings Shorlings Yarn made of Wooll Woolflocks Fullers Earth and Fulling Clay out of and from the Kingdoms and Dominion aforesaid and for the better setting on work the poor people and Inhabitants of the Kingdoms and Dominion aforesaid And to the intent that the full and best use and benefit of the principal native Commodities of the same Kingdoms and Dominion may come redound and be unto and amongst the Subjects and Inhabitants of the same and not unto or amongst the Subjects and Inhabitants of the Realm of Scotland or of any Forreign Realms or States as the same now of late in some great measure hath done and is further likely to do if some severer punishment than heretofore be not speedily inflicted upon such Offenders as shall be Actors or Assistants in and to such Exportation and Transportation and in and to such carrying and conveying thereof as aforesaid Be it Enacted by the Kings most Excellent Majesty No person after the 14. of Jan. 1660. shall export any Sheep or Wooll Wool-fells Mortlins Shorlings Yarn Woolflocks Fullers Earth Fulling Clay the Lords and Commons in this present Parliament assembled and by the Authority of the same That no person or persons whatsoever from and after the fourtéenth day of January One thousand six hundred and thréescore shall directly or indirectly Export Transport carry or convey or cause or procure to be Exported Transported carried or conveyed out of or from the Kingdom of England or Dominion of Wales or Town of Berwick upon Tweed or out of or from the Isles of Jersey or Guernsey with Sarke and Alderney being under the Government of Guernsey aforesaid or out of or from any of them or out of or from the Kingdom of Ireland aforesaid into any parts or places out of the Kingdoms Isles or Dominion aforesaid any Shéep or Wooll whatsoever of the bréed or growth of the Kingdoms of England or Ireland or Isles or Dominion aforesaid Or any Woolfells Mortlings or Shorlings or any Yarn made of Wooll or any Woolflocks or any Fullers Earth or any Fulling Clay whatsoever nor shall directly or indirectly pack or load Nor carry load or board any Sheep Wooll c. or cause to be packed or loaded upon any Horse Cart or other Carriage or Load or lay on board or cause to be loaden or laid on board in any Ship or other Vessel in any Place or Port within the Kingdoms of England or Ireland or Town of Berwick or Isles or Dominion aforesaid any such Shéep Wool Wool-fells Mortlings Shorlings Yarn made of Wooll or Woolflocks or any Fullers Earth or Fulling Clay to the intent or purpose to export transport carry or convey the same or to cause the same to be exported transported carried or conveyed out of the Kingdoms of England and Ireland Town of Berwick Isles or Dominion aforesaid or with intent or purpose that any other person or persons should so export transport carry or convey the same into any parts or places out of the Kingdoms of England and Ireland Town of Berwick Isles or Dominion aforesaid into the Kingdom of Scotland or any forreign parts And be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That no Wooll Woolfells Mortlings No Wooll Woolfells c. after the 14. of Ian. 1660. to be carried into Wales Ireland c. Except Shorlings Yarn made of Wooll Woolflocks or any Fullers Earth or Fulling Clay shall be from and after the fourtéenth day of January in the year of our Lord one thousand six hundred and thréescore exported transported carried or conveyed out of the Kingdom of England and Dominion of Wales or Town of Berwick or Kingdom of Ireland or out of any Port or Place of the said Kingdoms respectively unto the Isles of Jersey or Guernsey or to Sarke or Alderney except as in this Act shall be hereafter limited or appointed And be it further Enacted by the authority aforesaid The Penalties That all and every the Offender and Offenders offence and offences aforesaid shall be subject and lyable to the respective pains penalties and forfeitures hereafter following That is to say The said Shéep Woolls Woolfells Mortlings Shorlings Yarn made of Wooll Woollflocks Fullers Earth and Fulling Clay so exported transported carried conveyed packed or loaden contrary to the
true intent of this Act shall be forfeited and that every offender and offenders therein shall forfeit twenty shillings for every such Shéep and thrée shillings for every pound weight of such Wooll Woolfells Mortlings Shorlings Yarn made of Wooll Woollflocks Fullers Earth or Fulling Clay And also the Owners of the said Ships or Vessels knowing such offence shall forfeit all thei◠Interest in the said Ships or Vessels with all their Apparrel and Furniture to them and every of them belonging And that the Master and Mariners thereof knowing such offence and wittingly and willingly aiding and assisting thereunto shall forfeit all their Goods and Chattels and have Imprisonment for the same thrée moneths without Bail or Main-prise the one moyety of which said penalties and forfeitures shall be to the Kings Majesty His Heirs and Successors and the other moyety to him that will sue for the same by Action of Debt Bill Plaint or Information in any of His Majesties Courts of Record or before the Iustices of Assize or in the General Quarter Sessions of the Peace In which Suit no Essoyn protection or wager of Law shall be allowed The penalty upon any Merchant that shall transport woolls c. And be it further Enacted That if any Merchant or other person or persons shall after the said fourtéenth day of January transport or cause to be transported any Shéep Wooll Woolfells Mortlings Shorlings Woollen Yarn Woolflocks Fullers Earth or Fulling Clay contrary to the true intent of this Act and be thereof lawfully convicted That then he shall be disabled to require any Debt or Accompt of any Factor or others for or concerning any Debt or Estate properly belonging to such offender Proviso Provided alwayes and it is nevertheless declared That this Act or any thing therein contained shall not be construed to take away any greater pains or penalties inflicted or to be inflicted for any the offences aforesaid by vertue of any former Act of Parliament now in force Offences against this Act where to be tryed And be it also further Enacted by the authority aforesaid That every offence that shall be done or committed contrary to this Act shall and may be inquired of and heard examined tryed and determined in the County where such Shéep Wooll Woolfells Mortlings Shorlings Yarn made of Wooll Woolflocks Fullers Earth or Fulling Clay respectively shall be so packed loaden or laid aboard as aforesaid contrary to this Act or else in the County where such Offenders shall happen to be apprehended or arrested for such offence in such manner and form and to such effect to all intents and purposes as if the same offence had béen wholly and altogether done and committed at and in such County They to be Prosecuted within a year after the offence committed Any person may seize goods contrary to this Act loaded with intent to be transported and shall have the moyety thereof Provided alwayes and be it Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That no person or persons whatsoever shall at any time hereafter be impeached for any offence aforesaid unless such person or persons shall be prosecuted within the space of one year next ensuing such offence committed And be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That it shall and may be lawful to and for any person or persons to seize take and challenge to his or their own use and behoof and to the use of the King His Heirs and Successors all and all manner such Shéep Wooll Woolfells Mortlings Shorlings Yarn made of Wooll Woollflocks Fullers Earth and Fulling Clay as he or they shall happen to sée finde know or discover to be laid aboard in any Ship or other Vessel or Boat or to be brought carried or laid on shore at or near the Sea or any Navigable River or Water to the intent or purpose to be exported transported or conveyed out of the Kingdoms of England or Ireland Town of Berwick Isles or Dominion aforesaid contrary to the true meaning of this Act or to be packed or loaden upon any Horse Cart or other Carriage to the intent or purpose to be conveyed or carried into the Kingdom of Scotland aforesaid and that such person or persons as shall happen so to seize take or challenge any such Shéep Wooll Woolfells Mortlings Shorlings Yarn made of Wooll Woolflocks Fullers Earth or Fulling Clay as aforesaid shall have the full moyety thereof to all intents and purposes Proviso such person shall not be evidence against the offender Provided alwayes That such Person or Persons as shall make any such Seizure or challenge aforesaid to his or their own use shall not be admitted or allowed to give in Evidence upon his or their Oath or Oaths against any Person or Persons which shall happen to be indicted accused or questioned by vertue of this Act or any thing therein contained Forfeiture of the ship if the owner be an Alien or not Inhabiting in England And furthermore be it Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That all and every ship Vessel Hulk Barge or Boat of what kind soever whereof any Alien born or whereof any natural born Subjects not inhabiting within the Realm of England shall be owner or part-owner and wherein any Shéep Wooll Woolfells Mortlings Shorlings Yarn made of Wool Woolflocks Fullers Earth or Fulling Clay shall happen to be shipped put or laid aboard contrary to the true meaning of this Act shall be forfeited to the Kings Majesty His Heirs and Successors Provided alwayes That this Act shall not extend to any Lamb Skin ready drest and prepared fit and useful for Furr or Lynings Proviso Provided also That this Act shall not in any wise extend to the transporting carrying or conveying away of any such Woolfells or Pelts with such Wooll upon them or to any Beds stuffed with Flocks which shall be carried or imployed in any Ship or other Vessel for necessary use only of and about the Ordnance or other thing in or concerning such Ship or Vessel or only for the necessary use of any the Persons in such Ship or Vessel passing or being and which shall not be sold or uttered in any Forreign parts out of the Kingdoms of England or Ireland Ireland Berwick or Town of Berwick Isles or Dominion aforesaid nor to the exporting transporting carrying or conveying of any Wether-shéep or of the Wooll growing upon any such Wether-shéep to be carried alive in any Ship or other Vessel for and towards the only necessary food or diet of or for the Company or Passengers or other Persons therein and for and towards none other purpose Proviso Southampton Jersey Guernsey Provided alwayes and be it further Enacted That this Act or any thing therein contained shall not extend to any such Wooll to be exported or transported out of or from the Port of Southampton only unto the aforesaid Isles of Jersey and Guernsey by or for the only use or behoof of any the Inhabitants of
direction or true intent of any Act or Ordinance or reputed Act or Ordinance of one or both houses of Parliament or of any Convention sitting at Westminster under the Name Stile or Title of a Parliament or assuming that Name Stile or Title shall be and shall be adjudged estéemed and taken to be and to have béen of the same and no other force and effect as if such Marriages had béen had and solemnized according to the Rites and Ceremonies established or used in the Church or Kingdom of England any Law Custom or Vsage to the contrary thereof notwithstanding Issues upon lawfulness of marriages already joyned shall be cryed by Iury And be it further Enacted that where in any Suit commenced or to be commenced in any of the Courts of the common Law any issue hath béen joyned and not already tryed or determined or shall be joyned upon the point of Bastardy or unlawfulness of marriage for or concerning the marriages had and solemnized as aforesaid the same issues shall be tryed by Iury of Twelve Men according to the course of Trial of other issues tryable by Iury at the Common Law and not otherwise Bastardy any Law Statute or Vsage to the contrary thereof in any wise notwithstanding Stat. 13 Car. 2. cap. 11. CAP. XXXIV The Planting Setting or Sowing of Tobacco in England and Ireland prohibited YOur Majesties Loyal and Obedient Subjects The Lords and Commons in this present Parliament assembled considering of how great concern and importance it is That the Colonies and Plantations of this Kingdom in America be defended Protected Maintained and kept up and that all due and possible encouragement be given unto them and that not not only in regard great and considerable Dominions and Countries have béen thereby gained Importance of the plantations of America and added to the Imperial Crown of this Realm But for that the strength and welfare of this Kingdom do very much depend upon them in regard of the employment of a very considerable part of its Shipping and Seamen and of the vent of very great quantities of its Native Commodities and Manufactures as also of its supply with several Commodities which it was wont formerly to have only from Forraigners and at far dearer Rates And forasmuch as Tobacco is one of the main products of several of those Plantations and upon which their Welfare and Subsistence and the Navigation of this Kingdom and vent of its Commodities thither do much depend and in regard it is found by experience That the Tobaccoes Planted in these parts are not so good and wholsome for the Takers thereof And that by the Planting thereof your Majesty is deprived of a considerable part of your Revenue arising by Customs upon Imported Tobacco Do most humbly pray That it may be Enacted by your Majesty And it is hereby Enacted by the Kings most Excellent Majesty and the Lords and Commons in this present Parliament Assembled and by Authority of the same No person after the 1. Ianuary 1660. shall set or plant any Tobacco That no Person or Persons whatsoever shall or do from and after the first day of January in the year of our Lord One thousand six hundred and sixty Set Plant improve to grow make or cure any Tobacco either in Séed Plant or otherwise in or upon any Ground Earth Field or Place within the Kingdom of England Dominion of Wales Islands of Guernsey or Jersey The penalty or Town of Berwick upon Tweed or in the Kingdom of Ireland under the penalty of the Forfeiture of all such Tobacco or the value thereof or of the sum of forty shillings for every Rod or Pole of Ground so Planted set or Sowen as aforesaid and so proportionably for a greater or lesser quantity of Ground one Moyety thereof to His Majesty His Heirs and Successors And the other Moyety to him or them that shall Sue for the same to be recovered by Bill Plaint or Information in any Court of Record wherein no Essoigne Protection or wager in Law shall be allowed All Sheriffs and other officers may destroy any Tobacco planted contrary to this Act. And it is hereby further Enacted That all Sheriffs Iustices of the Peace Mayors Bailiffs Constables and every of them upon Information or Complaint made unto them or any of them by any the Officers of the Customes or by any other Person or Persons whatsoever That there is any Tobacco set sowen planted or growing within their Iurisdictions or Precincts contrary to this Act shall within ten daies after such Information or Complaint cause to be burnt plucked up consumed or utterly destroyed all such Tobacco so set sowen planted or growing The penalty of any person resisting this act And it is hereby further Enacted That in case any Person or Persons shall resist or make forcible Opposition against any person or persons in the due and through Execution of this Act that every such person or persons for every such Offence shall forfeit the sum of five pounds to be divided and recovered in manner aforesaid And in case any person or persons shall not pay the sums of money by them to be paid by vertue of this Act That in every such case Distress shall be made and Sale thereof returning the Over-plus to the Owners And in case no Distress be to be found That then every such party shall be committed to the Common Goal in the County where such Offence shall be committed there to remain for the space of two moneths without bail or main-prize Proviso for private Gardens Provided alwayes and it is hereby Enacted That this Act nor any thing therein contained shall extend to the hindring of the planting of Tobacco in any Physick Garden of either Vniversity or in any other private Garden for Physick or Chirurgery only so as the quantity so planted excéed not one half of one Pole in any one Place or Garden Stat. 13 Car. 2. cap. 14. CAP. XXXV A Post-Office erected and established WHereas for the maintenance of mutual Correspondencies and prevention of many Inconveniencies happening by private Posts The well ordering of postage and letters of great concernment to Trade several publick Post-Offices have béen heretofore erected for carrying and recarrying of Letters by Posts to and from all parts and places within England Scotland and Ireland and several parts beyond the Seas the well Ordering thereof is a matter of general concernment and of great advantage as well for preservation of Trade and Commerce as otherwise To the end therefore that the same may be managed so that spéedy and safe dispatches may be had which is most likely to be effected by erecting one general Post-Office for that purpose Be it therefore Enacted by the Kings most Excellent Majesty A Letter-office erected in London the Lords and Commons in this present Parliament assembled and by the Authority of the same That there be from henceforth one general Letter-Office erected and
to be upheld repaired and maintained after it be so erected at the charge of the Lord of the Mannor wherein the said Bridge now standeth proportionable to the charge he is now at for maintaining the Horse-Bridge and the residue of the charge to be born by the Parishioners of the said Parish For which purpose the said Iustices of the Peace at their said publick Sessions are hereby enabled to make respective rates accordingly so as the sum to be assessed for the erecting the said Bridge excéed not the sum of One hundred pounds and the said Iustices are to take care that the said Bridge be finished by or before the First day of August in the year of our Lord God One thousand six hundred sixty and thrée And be it Enacted by the Authority aforesaid Bridges to have sufficient Walls or Posts and Rails That the said Surveyors do take care that all and every Bridge or Bridges within their respective limits shall before the Feast of St. Michael One thousand six hundred sixty and two have sufficient walls or posts and rails of each side thereof four foot high at the least and that the said walls or posts and pails be from time to time kept in sufficient repair Provided always And be it Enacted by the Authority aforesaid Proviso for chusing Surveyors for the year 1662. EXP. That the Surveyors of the High-ways named for the year One thousand six hundred sixty and two shall within twenty days after the publication of this Act procéed to do and execute all things in this Act for the said year One thousand six hundred sixty two And where there are no Surveyors of the High-ways chosen for the said year One thousand six hundred sixty two they shall be chosen within twenty days after publication of this Act by such persons as by this Act is appointed and being so chosen they shall hereafter do and execute all things according to the tenor of this Act. Provided also And be it Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That where any Lands are let Tenants to bear the charges of Assessments for High-ways the Tenant and Occupier thereof shall pay the Assessment and bear all charges for the mending of the High-ways and not the Landlord except where there is or shall be any agréement betwéen the said Landlord and the Tenant to the contrary Provided also and be it further Enacted The continuance of this Act. That the power of raising and levying money by vertue of this Act shall continue in force for thrée years only from the Five and twentieth day of March One thousand six hundred sixty and two and no longer but that all other Powers and Clauses in this Act shall continue and stand in force until the end of the first Session of the next Parliament and no longer CAP. VII Exportation of Leather and Raw Hides out of the Realm of England restrained WHereas notwithstanding the many good Laws before this time made and still in force 5 E. 6. cap. 15. 6 El. cap. 22. 8 El. cap. 14. 18 El. cap. 9. prohibiting the Exportation of Leather out of this Realm and the penalty by those Acts imposed by the cunning and subtilty of some persons and the neglect of others who ought to take care thereof there are such quantities of Leather daily exported to forreign parts that the price of Leather is grown to those excessive Rates that many Artificers working Leather cannot furnish themselves with sufficient store thereof for the carrying on of their Trades and the poor sort of people are not able to buy those things made of Leather which of necessity they must make use of For redress of which griefs Be it Enacted by the Kings most Excellent Majesty by and with the Advice and Consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal and the Commons in this present Parliament assembled That from and after the First day of May now next ensuing no person or persons whatsoever shall carry or transport or cause to be carried or transported out of England into Scotland Ireland or into any of the Isles belonging to this Kingdom What Skins or Hides Tanned may not be transported or to any parts beyond the Seas the Skins or Hides Tanned or Vntanned of any Ox Stéer Bull Cow or Calf otherwise or in any other manner then is by this present Act directed And be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That none of the Skins or Hides aforesaid which shall happen to be taken from any of the beasts aforesaid within any Island whatsoever belonging to the Kingdom of England except Ireland shall be transported out of that Island to any other place but into the Kingdom of England upon pain of forfeiture for every such offence double the value of Skins or Hides The Penalty so to be transported out of the said Island or any of them to any other place then into the Kingdom of England the same forfeiture to be sued for and disposed as hereafter in this Act is directed And for the better preventing of such mischiefs as are intended to be remedied by this Act Be it Enacted by the Authority aforesaid What Leather must be bought onely in open Fairs or Markets for selling Leather The Penalty That all Red Tanned Leather made of the Hides or Skins of any of the Beasts aforesaid of what kind or nature soevâ—â— shall be bought onely in the open and common Fair or Market used for the putting of Leather to sale and not in any House Tanners Yard Shop or other place whatsoever on pain that such person or persons that shall not accordingly do the same shall for every such offence forfeit the same Leather or the value thereof and the contract for the sale thereof shall be void and all such Leather shall be Searched and Sealed by the Searchers and Sealers thereunto appointed before the same be put to Sale and upon such sale shall be Registred and a true Entry thereof made both by the Buyer and Seller who are both to be present at such Registring thereof and both their names and places of abode entred into the Book of the said Register on pain that every such Buyer or Seller that shall not accordingly do the same shall for every such offence forfeit the same Leather or the value thereof and the forfeiture shall be recovered and imployed in such manner as hereafter in this Act is directed Penalty for Transportation of any Leather or Raw-Hides And be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That if any person or persons shall be found guilty of the Transportation of any Leather or Raw Hides of any of the Beasts aforesaid excepting such Calve-skins and Shéep-skins dressed without the Wooll as by Law may be Transported contrary to the provision of this Act he shall from thenceforth be disabled to Trade or Deal in Leather for the future and shall for every such offence forfeit the sum of Five hundred pounds to be
One hundred pounds and the Cocquet Certificate or Return shall be invalid and of none effect and if any Goods Wares or Merchandizes brought or coming into any Port Haven or Créek within the Kingdom of England Dominion of Wales or Port and Town of Berwick from any other Port Haven or Créek within the Kingdom of England or Dominions aforesaid by Port Cocquet Transire Let-pass or Certificate in Ships or Vessels shall be landed or put on shore before such Cocquet Transire Let-pass or Certificate shall be delivered to such Person or Persons which are or shall be appointed by his Majesty for manageing his Customs the Customer or Collector and Comptroller of the Port or Place of their Arrival or to their Deputy or Deputies and a Warrant or Sufferance made and given from such person or persons Customer or Collector and Comptroller or their Deputy and Deputies aforesaid for the landing and discharging thereof And be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That if any Goods Wares Goods secretly conveyed beyond Sea uncustomed and undiscovered by the officers or Merchandizes for which the Duties of Subsidy or Custom are due and payable to the Kings Maiesty shall be secretly conveyed on Board any Ship or Vessel before the Custom and Subsidy thereof be duly answered and paid and shall escape the discovery thereof by the Officers of the Customs or others and be carried into the parts beyond the Seas in such case the Owners or Proprietors of such Goods Wares or Merchandizes or other person or persons who shall have so shipped or caused the same to be shipped and transported shall forfeit the double value of the Goods The penalty computed according to the Book of Rates Except for Coal which so secretly Exported as aforesaid shall pay double the Custom and Duty to be Collected and Levied in such manner as by the Act of Tunnage and Poundage is directed and appointed Be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid For preventing frauds in louring strangers goods That for preventing of frauds in colouring of strangers Goods and otherwise every Merchant or other passing any Goods Wares or Merchandizes Inwards or Outwards shall by himself or his known servant Factor or Agent subscribe one of his Bills of every Entry with the mark number and contents of every parcel of such Goods as are rated to pay by the piece or measure and weight of the whole parcel of such Goods as are rated to pay by the weight without which the Officers of the Customs shall not suffer any Entry to pass And that no children of aliens under the age of Twenty one years be permitted to be Traders or any Goods or Merchandizes to be entred in their names Be it also hereby Enacted That upon any Actions There shall be no party Iury in actions or suits concerning customs Suits and Informations that shall be brought commenced or entred upon any Law or Statute concerning the Kings Majesties Subsidies of Tunnage and Poundage or Ships or Goods to be forfeited by reason of unlawful Importation or Exportation there shall not be any Party Iury but such only as are the natural and frée-born Subjects of the King his Heirs or Successors And whereas allowances given to Merchants and others for defects and damages upon Goods Allowances for defects and damages in goods how to be made and Five per centum generally upon all Goods Imported and Twelve per centum upon Wines every Merchant or others having the aforesaid allowances inwards shall in person upon Oath by himself or by his known Servant or Factor demand and receive the moneys due upon Debenturs for such forreign Goods Exported by such Certificate with such abatements and allowances as were made and given to him upon the Importation and if he be found fraudulently to ship out less in quantity or value then is expressed in his Certificate the Goods therein mentioned or the value thereof shall be forfeited and the Owner or Merchant shall lose the benefit of receiving back any part of the Subsidy for those Goods and if any Goods shipped out by Certificate as aforesaid shall be landed again in the same or any other Port or Place within the Kingdom of England Dominion of Wales and Town and Port of Berwick unless in case of Distress to save the Goods from perishing which shall be presenly made known to the Person or Persons which are or shall be appointed by His Majesty to manage His Customs and Principal Officers of the Port no allowance shall be demanded or made for those Goods and the said Goods or value thereof shall be forfeited and lost Be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That all Goods Goods brought from or carried into Scotland by land shall pass through Barwick or Carliâ—e Wares or Merchandize that shall be brought out of or carried into the Kingdom of Scotland by Land into or out of the Kingdom of England Dominion of Wales or Port and Town of Berwick shall pass and be carried by and through some of the Towns and Passages hereafter named that is to say by and through Berwick or Carlile and then and there pay the Custom and Subsidy granted and due to the Kings Majesty by an Act of this present Parliament Entituled 12 Car. 2. cap. 4. A Subsidy granted to the King of Tunnage and Poundage and other Sums of Money payable upon Merchandize Exported and Imported And if any Goods Wares or Merchandize prohibited or uncustomed coming out of Scotland into England or going out of England into Scotland shall pass by or beyond the Towns Ports and Places aforenamed without due entry and payment of the Customs That then all such Goods Wares and Merchandize or the value thereof shall be forfeited and lost And whereas in and by an Act of Parliament in the First year of Quéen Elizabeth 1 El. cap. 11. When and where Merchandize shall be landed and custom paid of famous memory directing when and where Merchandize shall be landed and Customs paid it is amongst divers other things Enacted and Ordained That no Goods Wares or Merchandize shall be shipped or loaden aboard any Ship or Vessel or landed or discharged out of or from any Ship or Vessel but in or upon some such open Place Key or Wharf Places Keys or Wharfs Except the Port of Hull as her Highness her Heirs and Successors should therefore assign or appoint by vertue of her Highness Commission or Commissions within the Port of London and in all Ports Creeks Havens or Roads as in and by the said Act doth and may at large appear And whereas notwithstanding the aforesaid Act there are some Ports Créeks and places where Customers Collectors and Comptrollers and Searchers their servants had then time out of mind béen resident to which no such Commissions were sent nor places keys nor wharfs appointed as by the said Act was directed And whereas also since that time by reason of the alteration of
his Majesties Exchequer before the four and twentieth of June one thousand six hundred sixty and two and have or shall have notice thereof by Process out of the Court of Exchequer or otherwise served upon his person or left at his house or last known place of Habitation before the nine and twentieth of September one thousand six hundred sixty and two and shall not before the first day of Easter Term then next ensuing perfect their Accounts touching the said Charge that then the Charge against all and every such person or persons shall be taken as a Debt by Writing Obligatory or Recognizance taken and acknowledged to the Kings Majesty according to the Statute aforesaid and that in both the said Cases Process shall be awarded as is used for recovery of debts due to his Majesty according to the Statute as aforesaid against him or them and against all and every their Sureties not pardoned or discharged by the said Act of Oblivion and his and their respective Lands Tenements Goods and Chattels and Debts and the said Charge to continue in force only until the Accounts shall be perfected and the Accountants discharge them thereof in due manner in the said Court of Exchequer with such allowances as are given by the said Act of Oblivion and untill payment made unto his Majesty of all such sums of money as shall be found due upon the determination of his or their Accounts CAP. XVII Relief of Collectors of Publick Moneys and their Assistants and Deputies BE it Enacted by the Kings most Excellent Majesty by and with the Advice and Consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal and the Commons in Parliament now assembled and by Authority of the same Collectors others imployed in levying money by vertue of any Act of Parliament being sued may plead the general issue That all Collectors and other Persons who have levied or Collected or shall Levy or Collect any sum or sums of money or other act done or shall do in order to the same by vertue of any Act of Parliament now in force or of any other Act Order or Ordinance allowed to be put in Execution by any such Act of Parliament as aforesaid and who is or shall be sued for or concerning the same by any other then the Kings Majesty his Heirs and Successors he and they may plead the General Issue and thereon give the special matter in evidence for his excuse and justification And that all and every person or persons already sued or impleaded for any the Causes aforesaid may notwithstanding any plea or demurrer already made by any such Defendant have liberty to change such his Plea and to plead the General Issue if he shall think fit so to do Provided always that neither this Act nor any thing therein contained shall extend or be construed to extend to authorize the levying or collecting of any sum or sums of money which are pardoned by the late Act 12 Car. 2. c. 11 Entituled An Act of Free and General Pardon Indempnity and Oblivion CAP. XVIII Exporting of Sheep Wool Wool-fells Mortlings Shorlings Yarn made of Wool Wool-flocks Fullers-Earth Fulling-Clay and Tobacco-pipe-Clay Prohibited WHereas against the Laws of this Kingdom great number of Shéep and great quantities of Wooll Wool-fels Mortlings Shorlings Yarn made of Wool Wool-flocks Fullers Earth or Fulling-Clay are secretly Exported Transported carried and conveyed out of the Kingdom of England Dominion of Wales the Town of Berwick upon Tweed and Kingdom of Ireland into the Kingdom of Scotland and into Foreign parts to the great decay of the Woollen Manufactures the ruine of many Families and the destruction of the Navigation and Commerce of the Kingdoms Town and Dominion aforesaid which is like daily to increase if some further remedy be not provided and further penalties imposed upon the Offenders therein 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 if any person or persons shall from and after the first day of August Exporting or carrying of sheep wooll woolfels mortlings shorlings yarn woolflocks Fullers earth Fulling clay out of England Wales or Ireland One thousand six hundred sixty and two directly or indirectly Export Transport Carry or Convey or shall cause to be Exported Transported Carryed or Conveyed out of or from the Kingdom of England Dominion of Wales or Town of Berwick upon Tweed or after the first day of January One thousand six hundred sixty and two out of the Kingdom of Ireland into any parts or places out of the Kingdoms or Dominion aforesaid or into the Kingdome of Scotland any Shéep or Wool whatsoever of the bréed or growth of the Kingdoms or Dominion aforesaid or any Wool-fells Mortlings Shorlings Yarn made of Wool Wool-flocks or any Fullers Earth or Fulling-Clay whatsoever or shall directly or indirectly pack or load or cause to be packed or loaden upon any horse Cart or other Carriage or shall load or lay on board or cause to be loaden or laid on board in any Ship or other Vessel in any place within the Kingdoms of England or Ireland Dominion of Wales or Town of Berwick upon Tweed aforesaid any such Shéep Wooll Wool-fels Mortlings Shorlings Yarn made of Wooll Wool-flocks Fullers Earth or Fulling Clay to the intent or purpose to Export Transport Carry or convey the same or to cause the same to be Exported Transported Carryed or conveyed out of the Kingdoms of England or Ireland the Dominion of Wales or Town of Berwick upon Tweed aforesaid into the Kingdom of Scotland or into any Foreign parts that then every such offence shall be adjudged Felony Made Felony and the Offender or Offenders being duly Convicted shall suffer and forfeit as in case of Felony Aiders and assisters therein shall be adjudged Felons And be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That every Owner of any such Ship or other Vessel every owner of every horse Cart or Carriage upon which any Shéep Wooll Wool-fels Mortlings Shorlings Yarn made of Wool Woolflocks Fullers Earth or Fulling Clay shall be so Exported Transported carryed or conveyed as aforesaid or to any such intent or purpose as aforesaid knowing thereof and being wittingly and willingly aiding assisting or consenting thereunto and also every Master and Mariner of or in such Ship or other Vessel wherein any such Shéep Wooll Wool-fels Mortlings Shorlings Yarn made of Wooll Woolflocks Fullers Earth or Fulling Clay shall be so exported transported carryed or conveyed or loaden or laid on Board as aforesaid to any such intent or purpose as aforesaid knowing thereof and being wittingly and willingly aiding assisting or consenting thereunto and also every Factor or servant or other person whatsoever and every Customer Comptroller Waiter Searcher Surveyor or other Officer or person whatsoever knowing thereof and being wittingly or willingly
aiding assisting or consenting thereunto shall be and shall be adjudged and taken to be a felon and every Offender and Offenders therein being duly convicted shall suffer and forfeit as in case of felony And be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That every offence Offences against this Act where to be examined tryed which shall be done or committed contrary to this Act shall and may be enquired of and heard examined tryed and determined in the County where such Shéep Wool Woolfels Mortlings Shorlings Yarn made of Wool Woolflocks Fullers Earth or Fulling Clay respectively shall be so Packed laden or laid on board as aforesaid or else in the County where such Offender shall happen to be apprehended or arrested for such offence in such manner and form and to such effect to all intents and purposes as if the same offence had béen wholly done and committed in the same County Provided also that every Baron and other Péer of this Realm Peers which shall be indicted or accused as principal or accessary in or to any offence made felony by this Act shall have his her or their Tryal by his her or their Péers as in cases of felony at the Common Law Provided always and be it Enacted by the Authority aforesaid None to be impeached unless within one year next after the offence committed That no person or persons whatsoever shall at any time hereafter be impeached for any offence made felony by this Act unless such person or persons shall be thereof indicted within the space of one year next ensuing such offence committed And forasmuch as great quantities of Wool Woollen yarn and Wool-flocks are close packed and pressed together with serues and other unlawful engines into Butts Pipes Hogsheads Chests and other Cask and Vessels and into Sacks Baggs and other wrappers made of Wool or Linen and under colour of Bales Sacks Baggs Packs and Casks of other Goods and otherwise great quantities of the same are daily loaden on board of Ships or other Vessels and so are carryed conveyed exported and transported out of the Kingdoms Town of Berwick and Dominion aforesaid and also great quantities are daily carryed and laid at or near the Coasts of the Sea or some Navigable Rivers into Store-houses and Barns and by night are laid on board of Shallops and other Vessels belonging to Aliens and so carryed and exported out of the Kingdoms Town of Berwick and Dominion aforesaid Be it therefore Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That from and after the said first day of August Scrues and unlawful Engines for pressing together of wool not to be used no person or persons shall press together with any Scrues Presses or other Engines into any Sack Pack Bag or other wrapper or shall put press pack or stean any Wool whatsoever or any Yarn made of Wool into any Butt Pipe Hogshead Chest or any other Cask or Vessel upon any pretence whatsoever or shall carry or lay or cause to be carried or laid at or near the Shore or Coasts of the Sea or of any Navigable River or into any house or place near adjoyning thereunto any such Wool Wool-flocks or Yarn made of Wool with intention to export transport carry or convey the same out of the Kingdoms of England or Ireland Town of Berwick upon Tweed or Dominion of Wales into the Kingdom of Scotland or into any Foreign parts under the penalty of the loss and forfeiture of all such Wool The penalty Wool-flocks and Yarn made of Wool as shall be so packed or pressed or put or laid into Cask or carried and laid near to the Sea-shoar or to any Navigable River as aforesaid or the value thereof And whereas great quantities of Fullers Earth or Fulling Clay Fulling clay Tobacco-pipe clay not to be exported are daily carried and exported under the colour of Tobacco-pipe Clay Be it therefore Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That no Tobacco-pipe Clay shall from and after the first day of August One thousand six hundred sixty and two be exported transported carried or conveyed out of or from the Kingdom of England Town of Berwick upon Tweed or after the first day of January One thousand six hundred sixty and two out of or from the Kingdom of Ireland or the Dominion of Wales The penalty into the Kingdom of Scotland or into any Foreign parts or into any Port or place out of the Kingdoms or Dominion aforesaid under the penalty of thrée shillings for every pound of Tobacco-pipe Clay which shall be exported or transported contrary to this Act. And be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That from and after the first day of August One thousand six hundred sixty and two no Packs Sacks Bags or Cask of any Wool Packs of wool woolfels c. shall not be carryed but in the day time Wool-fels Mortlings Shorlings Yarn made of Wool Wool-flocks Fullers Earth Fulling Clay or Tobacco-pipe Clay shall be laid or loaden on any horse cart or other carriage whatsoever or shall be carried or conveyed by land to or from any place or places within the Kingdom of England Town of Berwick or Dominion aforesaid nor after the first day of January One thousand six hundred sixty two in the Kingdom of Ireland but in the day time and at seasonable hours that is to say from and after the first day of March to the nine and twentieth day of September yearly betwéen the hours of four of the clock in the morning and eight of the clock in the evening and from the nine and twentieth day of September to the first day of March yearly betwéen the hours of seven of the clock in the morning and five of the clock in the evening The penalty under the penalty of the loss and forfeiture of all such goods or the value thereof the one moyety of all which forfeitures mentioned in this Act to be to the use of the King his Heirs and Successors and the other moyety to him or them that will sue for the same by Action of Debt Bill Plaint or Information in any Court of Record in which no Essoign Protection or Wager of Law shall be admitted or allowed Provided nevertheless Proviso concerning the Act. That this Act or any thing therein contained shall not extend or be construed to extend to repeal disanul and make void any the Penalties Clauses or Provisoes mentioned in one Act of this present Session of Parliament made against the transportation of Wool Wool-fels Fullers Earth or any kind of Scouring Earth 12 Car. 2. c. 32 13 Car. 2. c. 14 or to the prohibiting of the loading on board of any Ship or Vessel of any Weather-sheep Wool Wool-flocks or other goods mentioned in this Act that by the aforesaid Act is permitted to be loaden on board of any Ship or Vessel for the necessary use or provision of such ship or vessel as aforesaid Any thing in this Act contained to
the contrary in any wise notwithstanding Proviso for owners of ships that have offended and shall first discover the same Provided always That if any Owner of any Ship or Vessel or any Master or Mariner knowing of such transportation of such shéep wool woolfels mortlings shorlings yarn made of wool wool-flocks Fullers earth Fulling clay or Tobacco-pipe clay shall within thrée moneths next after the knowledg thereof or after his return into the Kingdom of England or Ireland or into the said Town of Berwick or Dominion of Wales aforesaid give the first information bona fide before any of the Barons of either of the Courts of the Exchequer in England or Ireland for the time being or before the head Officer of any Port where he shall first arrive upon his or their Oath of the number and quantity of the goods mentioned in this Act so carryed conveyed and transported and by whom where and in what ship or vessel and afterwards shall be ready upon reasonable warning by Process to justify and prove the same that then such Owner and Owners Master Mariner and Mariners shall not be punished for felony by vertue of this Act but shall nevertheless be subject to all other penalties and forfeitures in this or any other Act contained for the Offence aforesaid and all such Exportation Transportation carrying or conveying of any the goods Common nusance Who may hear and determine the said offences wares or commodities in this Act mentioned is hereby declared and adjudged to be a common and publick Nusance And for the better execution of this Act be it further Enacted that all Iustices of Assize Iustices of Goal-delivery and Iustices of Peace shall enquire of all the premisses in their General Quarter-Sessions and hear and determine the same and that all Mayors Bailiffs and other head Officers of Cities Burroughs and Towns not having Iurisdiction to try felony shall enquire of all and every Offence within this Act not made felony and hear and determine the same CAP. XIX Importing of Foreign Wool-cards Card-wire or Iron-wire prohibited WHereas by the Acts of Parliament made in the third year of King Edward the fourth and the nine and thirtieth year of Quéen Elizabeth 3 E. 4. ca. 4. â—9 El. c. 14. and several other Statutes before that time made It is Enacted amongst other things therein contained that no Cards for wool nor Iron thread commonly called white wire shall be Imported sent or conveyed into this Realm of England wherein the best Iron thread or wire for making wool-cards is made and by the said manufacture of making and drawing of wire and wool-cards very many poor people of this Kingdom and their families have béen imployed and maintained and the wool-cards made thereof are of great concernment to this Kingdom for the good making of woollen Cloth And whereas contrary to the said Statutes not only much Foreign Card-wire but also Foreign wool-cards have béen in these late times Imported into this Kingdom and also within the same many old wool-cards are by ill disposed persons for their private lucre bought up and the old Iron-wire of the said old wool-cards being very weak and insufficient for the well carding of wool is put into new leather and new boards and so uttered and sold to ignorant people for new wool-cards to their great detriment and the indamaging of their work carding of wool and the cloth made thereof By all which very great inconveniencies have béen found by experience of Clothiers in their making of English Cloth which is lately much debased and decayed and wherein this Nation is greatly concerned to uphold and encourage the well making thereof in and by all wayes and means in any wise conducible thereunto Be it therefore Enacted by the Kings most Excellent Majesty by and with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal and the Commons assembled in Parliament No Foreign wool-cards card-wire or iron wire for wool-cards may be imported And it is hereby Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That no Foreign wool-cards or Foreign Card-wire or Iron-wire for making of wool-cards be Imported into this Kingdom of England Dominion of Wales or any parts thereof nor used within the same nor any Card-wire taken out of old Cards be from henceforth put into new leather and new Card-boards nor any such wool-cards made thereof be put to sale upon the pains penalties and forfeitures hereafter following that is to say Every person or persons who shall import or bring any Foreign wool-cards or Foreign Card-wire or Iron-wire for making of wool-cards into this Kingdom of England The penalty Dominion of Wales or any parts thereof or make any wool-cards of any such old Card-wire as aforesaid or put the same to sale shall forfeit the said wool-cards and Card-wire or Iron wire for making wool-cards or the value thereof if the same be not seised the one half part thereof to the Kings Majesty and the other half part thereof to such person or persons who shall first seise or sue for the same by Action of Debt Plaint Bill Information or Indictment in any of his Majesties Courts of Record at Westminster or within the County City Burrough or Town Corporate where such offence shall be committed wherein no Essoign Protection Wager of Law or Injunction shall be allowed or admitted Proviso for amending of old wool-cards Provided always That this Act shall not extend to hinder the Owners of any wool-cards to cause them to be amended for their own use or to transport or sell for Transportation onely any their old overworn wool-cards in any parts beyond the Seas out of his Majesties Dominions CAP. XX. Provision of Carriage by Land and by Water for the use of His Majesties Navy and Ordnance WHereas by an Act Entituled An Act for taking away the Court of Wards and Liveries 12 Car. 2. cap. 24. and Tenures in Capite and by Knights Service and Purveyance and for setling a Revenue upon His Majesty in lieu thereof It was amongst other things Enacted for the reasons and recompence therein expressed That from thenceforth no Person or Persons by any Warrant Commission or Authority under the Great Seal or otherwise by colour of buying or making provision or purveyance for his Majesty or any Quéen of England for the time being or of any the Children of any King or Quéen of England that shall be or for his their or any of their Houshold shall take any Cart Carriage or other thing whatsoever of any the Subjects of his Majesty his Heirs or Successors without the free and full consent of the Owner or Owners thereof had and obtained without Menace or Enforcement nor shall summon warn take use or require any of the said Subjects to furnish or find any Horses Oxen or other Cattel Carts Ploughs Wayns or other Carriages for the use of his Majesty his Heirs or Successors or of any Queen of England or of any Child or Children
hereby Enacted Comodities of the growth and manufacture of Europe how to be imported in English built shipping That from and after the five and twentieth day of March One thousand six hundred sixty four no Commodity of the Growth Production or Manufacture of Europe shall be Imported into any Land Island Plantation Colony Territory or Place to his Majesty belonging or which shall belong hereafter unto or be in the Possession of his Majesty his Heirs and Successors in Asia Africa or America Tangier only excepted but what shall be bona fide and without fraud Laden and Shipped in England Wales or the Town of Berwick upon Tweed and in English built Shipping or which were bona fide bought before the first day of October One thousand six hundred sixty and two and had such Certificate thereof as is directed in one Act passed the last Sessions of this present Parliament Entituled 14 Car. 2. c. 11 An Act for preventing Frauds and regulating Abuses in His Majesties Customs and whereof the Master and thrée Fourths of the Mariners at least are English and which shall be carried directly thence to the said Lands Islands Plantations Colonies Territories or Places and from no other place or places whatsoever Any Law Statute or Vsage to the contrary notwithstanding The penalty under the Penalty of the loss of all such Commodities of the Growth Production or Manufacture of Europe as shall be imported into any of them from any other place whatsoever by Land or Water And if by water of the ship or vessel also in which they were Imported with all her Guns Tackle Furniture Ammunition and Apparel one third part to his Majesty his Heirs and Successors one third part to the Governor of such Land Island Plantation Colony Territory or place into which such Goods were Imported if the said ship vessel or goods be there seised or informed against and sued for Or otherwise That third part also to his Majesty his Heirs and Successors and the other third part to him or them who shall seise inform or sue for the same in any of his Majesties Courts in such of the said Lands Islands Colonies Plantations Territories or Places where the Offence was committed or in any Court of Record in England by Bill Information Plaint or other Action wherein no Essoign Protection or Wager in Law shall be allowed Provided always and be it hereby Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That it shall and may be lawful to ship and lade in such ships and so navigated as in the foregoing Clause is set down and expressed in any part of Europe Salt for the Fisheries of new-New-England and New-found-land Salt for Fisheries and to ship and lade in the Madera's Wines of the growth thereof and to ship and lade in the Western Islands or Azores Wines of the growth of the said Islands and to ship and take in Servants or Horses in Scotland or Ireland and to ship or lade in Scotland all sorts of Victual of the Growth or Production of Scotland and to ship or lade in Ireland all sorts of Victual of the Growth or Production of Ireland and the same to Transport into any of the said Lands Islands Plantations Colonies Territories or places Any thing in the foregoing Clause to the contrary in any wise notwithstanding And for the better prevention of Frauds Be it Enacted and it is hereby Enacted Prevention of frauds That from and after the five and twentieth day of March One thousand six hundred sixty and four every person or persons importing by Land any Goods or Commodities whatsoever into any the said Lands Islands Plantations Colonies Territories or Places shall deliver to the Governour of such Land Island Plantation Colony Territory or Place or to such person or Officer as shall be by him thereunto authorized and appointed within four and twenty hours after such Importation his and their Names and Sirnames and a true Inventory and particular of all such Goods or Commodities And no Ship or Vessel coming to any such Land Island Plantation Colony Territory or Place shall lade or unlade any Goods or Commodities whatsoever until the Master or Commander of such Ship or Vessel shall first have made known to the Governour of such Land Island Plantation Colony Territory or Place or such other person or Officer as shall be by him thereunto authorized and appointed the arrival of the said Ship or Vessel with her Name and the Name and Sirname of her Master or Commander and have shewen to him that she is an English-built Ship or made good by producing such Certificate as abovesaid that she is a Ship or Vessel bona fide belonging to England Wales or the Town of Berwick and navigated with an English Master and thrée fourth parts of the Mariners at least English-men and have delivered to such Governour or other person or Officer a true and perfect Inventory or Invoyce of her Lading together with the place or places in which the said Goods were laden or taken into the said Ship or Vessel under the pain of the loss of the Ship or Vessel with all her Guns Ammunition Tackle Furniture and Apparel and of all such Goods of the growth Production or Manufacture of Europe as were not bona fide laden and taken in in England Wales or the Town of Berwick to be recovered and divided in manner aforesaid And all such as are Governours or Commanders of any the said Lands Islands Plantations Colonies Territories or Places Tangier only excepted shall before the Five and twentieth day of March One thousand six hundred sixty and four and all such as shall hereafter be made Governours or Commanders of any of them shall before their entrance upon the Execution of such trust or charge take a solemn Oath before such person or persons as shall be authorized by his Majesty his Heirs and Successors to administer the same to do their utmost within their respective Governments or Commands to cause to be well and truly observed what is in this Act Enacted in relation to the Trade of such Lands Islands Plantations Colonies Territories and Places under the penalty of being removed out of their respective Governments and Commands And if any of them shall be found after the taking of such Oath to have wittingly and willingly offended contrary to what is by this Act required of them That they shall for such offence be turned out of their Governments and be incapable of the Government of any other Land Island Plantation or Colony and moreover forfeit the sum of one thousand pounds of lawful money of England the one moyety to his Majesty his Heirs and Successors and the other moyety to him or them that shall inform or sue for the same in any of his Majesties Courts in any of the said Plantations or in any Court of Record in England wherein no Essoign Protection or Wager in Law shall be allowed Penalty upon Officers of the Customs And it is
hereby further Enacted That if any Officer of the Customs in England Wales or Town of Berwick upon Tweed shall give any Warrant for or suffer any Sugar Tobacco Ginger Cotton-wool Indico Speckle-wood or Jamaica Wood Fustick or other Dying Wood of the growth of any of the said Lands Islands Colonies Plantations Territories or Places to be carryed into any other Countrey or place whatsoever until they have béen first unladen bona fide and put on shore in some Port or Haven in England or Wales or in the Town of Berwick That every such Officer for such offence shall forfeit his place and the value of such of the said goods as he shall give Warrant for or suffer to pass into any other Countrey or place the one moyety to his Majesty his Heirs and Successors and the other moyety to him or them that shall inform or sue for the same in any Court of Record in England or Wales wherein no Essoign Protection or Wager in Law shall be allowed Encouragement of Plantations and encrease of Shipping And for the better encouragement of the said Plantations and the increase of the Shipping and Navigation of this Kingdom Be it Enacted and it is hereby Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That from and after the five and twentieth day of March one thousand six hundred sixty and four it shall and may be lawful out of any Port of England or Wales or out of the Town of Berwick Sea-coals to ship and lade Sea-coals for any part of them paying for the Chalder Newcastle measure one shilling eight pence and for the Chalder London-measure one shilling and no more in full of all Custom and Poundage for the same Any Law Statute or Prohibition to the contrary in any wise notwithstanding Provided That such Sea-coals be shipped in such shipping and so Navigated as abovesaid And that good security be given to the Officers of the Customs in such Port in which they are shipped for the landing them in the said Plantations and not elswhere And forasmuch as several considerable and advantagious Trades cannot be conveniently driven and carried on without the Species of Money or Bullion and that it is found by experience that they are carried in greatest abundance as to a common Market to such places as give frée liberty for exporting the same and the better to kéep in and increase the current Coins of this Kingdom Be it Enacted and it is hereby Enacted That from and after the first day of August one thousand six hundred sixty and thrée it shall and may be lawful to and for any person or persons whatsoever to Export out of any Port of England or Wales in which there is a Customer or Collector or out of the Town of Berwick all sorts of Foreign Coyn or Bullion of Gold or Silver Foreign coin or bullion may be exported first making entry thereof in such Custom-house respectively without paying any Duty Custom Poundage or Fée for the same Any Law Statute or Vsage to the contrary notwithstanding And lastly Whereas a very great part of the richest and best Land of this Kingdom is and cannot so well be otherwise imployed and made use of as in the Féeding and Fattening of Cattel And that by the coming in of late of vast numbers of Cattel already fatted such Lands are in many places much fallen and like daily to fall more in their Rents and Values and in consequence other Lands also to the great prejudice detriment and impoverishment of this Kingdom Be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid and it is hereby Enacted That for every head of great Cattel except such as are of the bréed of Scotland that shall be imported or brought into England Penalties upon importation of Foreign cattel at certain times Wales or the Town of Berwick upon Tweed after the first day of July and before the twentieth day of December in any year And for every head of great Cattel of the bréed of Scotland that shall be imported or brought into England Wales or the Town of Berwick after the four and twentieth day of August and before the twentieth day of December in any year there shall be paid to his Majesty his Heirs and Successors the sum of twenty shillings And the sum of ten shillings to him or them that shall inform or seise the same And the sum of ten shillings to the Poor of the Parish where such Seisure or Information shall be made to be recovered and levied by Bill Plaint or other Action wherein no Essoign Protection or Wager in Law shall be allowed And moreover That there shall be paid to his Majesty his Heirs and Successors for every Shéep which shall be Imported into England Wales or the Town of Berwick aforesaid after the First day of August and before the Twentieth day of December in any year the sum of Ten shillings of lawful money of England to be recovered and levied in manner aforesaid Provided always That this Act in so far as it relates to great Cattel or Shéep The continuance of this Act as to importation of cattel Encouragement of Herring Fisheries shall not take place till the First day of July One thousand six hundred sixty and four nor continue longer then the end of the First Session of the next Parliament And for the encouragement of the Herring and North-Sea Island and Westmony Fisheries Be it Enacted and it is hereby Enacted by the authority aforesaid That from and after the First day of August which shall be in the year of our Lord One thousand six hundred sixty and four no Fresh Herring Fresh Cood or Haddock Coal-fish or Gull-fish shall be Imported into England Wales or the Town of Berwick but in English-built Ships or Vessels or in Ships or Vessels bona fide belonging to England Wales or the Town of Berwick and having such Certificate thereof as is abovesaid and whereof the Master and thrée Fourths at the least of the Mariners are English and which hath béen fished caught and taken in such Ships or Vessels and so navigated and not being â—ought or had of any strangers born or out of any strangers Bottoms under the pain of the forfeiture of all such Herring Codd Haddock Coal-fish or Gull-fish impâ—â—ted contrary to the true intent and meaning hereof and of the Ship or Vessel in which it was Imported One moyety of which forfeitures shall be to his Majesty his Heirs and Successors and the other moyety to him or them that shall inform seise or sue for the same to be recovered by Bill Plaint or other Action wherein no Essoign Protection or Wager in Law shall be allowed And be it further Enacted and it is hereby Enacted by the Authority aforesaid Duties to be paid upon importation of salted or dried Fish That for the following sorts or kinds of salted or dried Fish which from and after the said First day of August shall be imported into England Wales or
made for the said Thomas Lâ—vel repealed other then such as are herein after mentioned Enacted Ratified and confirmed shall be and are hereby repealed and made void to all intents and purposes whatsoever And inasmuch as the Right Honourable Thomas Earl of Berkshire and the Lady Elizabeth his Wife and Charles Lord Howard of Charlton commonly called the Lord Viscount Andover their Eldest son and heir apparent The Right Honourable Robert Lord Bruce Baron of Wharlton in the Kingdom of England and Earl of Elgin in the Kingdom of Scotland and the Lady Diana his wife The Right Honourable Anne Countess of Stamford and Thomas Lord Grey of Groby have formerly held and derived to themselves with remainders over to several other persons by several Conveyances from or under the Right Honourable William late Earl of Exeter and Elizabeth late Countess of Exeter or one of them several interests in the said third part of the said Lands allotted to the said Lovel his heirs and assigns and to other proportions by subsequent Decrées of Sewers and towards the Dreyning and maintaining thereof they the said Right Honourable William late Earl of Exeter and Elizabeth late Countess Dowager of Exeter under whom or one of whom they claim and Thomas late Earl of Exeter from whom the said William late Earl and Elizabeth late Countess Dowager of Exeter derived their title have expended several great sums of money but have not so fully effected the said works nor introduced those beneaÌ„ts and advantages which were expected And for reason do alledg that the third part and subsequent allotments are not Recompence sufficient to answer the charge of a more perfect performance of the said work but offer to procéed and perfectly to effect the same if they may have a sufficient recompence and compensation for their Hazard Charge and Pains therein Be it Enacted by the Authority aforesaid Trustees and undertakers made for dreyning the said Fens That Edward Earl of Manchester Lord Chamberlain of his Majesties Houshold William Earl of Devonshire John Lord Berkley of Stratton Anchatil Grey Esquire Henry Grey Esquire and their Heirs and Assigns and the Survivor of them shall be and are hereby declared to be the Vndertakers for the Dreining of the said Fens and every of them in trust to and for such person and persons and to such intents and purposes as are herein after mentioned And that within the space of seven years next ensuing they their heirs and assigns shall and will at their proper costs and charges recover and make dry the said Fens and every of them and make the same firm and depasturable for Cattel at all times of the year except two or thrée hundred Acres or thereabouts in the said Fens called Deeping-Fen and Goggisland and forty Acres or thereabouts in the said Fens called Thursby-Fen and Bourn-South-Fen which are to be left for Lakes and Sykes for the receipt of Waters within the same And also except such Drains and Sewers as now be or hereafter shall be made within the said Fens or any of them for the Dreyning thereof and so much of the grounds adjoyning to the Rivers Dreyns and Sewers within the said Fens as lye or shall lye betwéen the said Rivers Dreyns or Sewers and the Banks made or to be made for kéeping the Waters lying in the said Rivers Dreyns or Sewers from overflowing the rest of the said Fens And also shall for ever hereafter at their own costs and charges not only repair exalt maintain and keep as néed shall require the Banks environing and encompassing the said Fens and every of them but also the Bank on the East-side of the River of Welland from a place in Crowland called Brother-house to Spalding high-bridg And also the Bank on the North-side of the River Glean from Gutheram Coat to a place called Dovehum in Pinchbeck and thereof and of all and every the said Banks above-named shall for ever hereafter exonerate acquit discharge and save harmless as well the Kings Majesty his Heirs and Successors as the Quéen Dowager her Tenants and under-Tenants and all other person and persons their Heirs and Assigns of and for their repairing and amending of their several parts and allotments of the same but also that they the said Trustées their Heirs and Assigns and the Survivor of them at their own proper Costs and Charges shall for ever maintain and kéep the Rivers of Glean and Welland with sufficient Dyking Roading Scowring and Banking viz. the River of Welland from the Outgang at the East end of East-Dieping leading into the said Fens Glean and Welland Rivers unto the Out-fall thereof into the Sea and to preserve and maintain the Navigation thereof without Imposition or paying any thing whatsoever for the same but with liberty to alter and divert the Course and Channel of the same into any other part or parts of the said Fens before it cometh to the said Corner of Dieping-Fen abutting upon Hawthorne-Bank from whence through the said Town of Spalding as it now passeth to the Sea it shall not be lawful to divert the Course thereof And with like liberty to divert the said River of Glean before it cometh to the place called Pinchbeck-Barrs or Dovehurne in Pinchbeck from which place called Dovehurne through the said Town and the Town of Surflet as it now passeth to the Sea it shall not be lawful to divert the same or prejudice the Navigation thereof And all manner of Dreins Sewers and Passages for Waters and other Water-works whatsoever which now are or hereafter shall be made within or without the said Fens for the draining of the said Fens or any of them which shall be necessary to be made or continued in order to the preserving the said Fens from Surrounder And thereof and of all and every the said Rivers to discharge exonerate acquit and save harmless as well the Kings and the said Quéens Majesties his Heirs and Successors their Tenants and Vnder-tenants as all other person and persons their Heirs and Assigns of and for the repairing and amending of their several parts and allotments in them and every of them Be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That the said Trustées their Heirs and Assigns or the Survivor of them shall at their own proper Costs and Charges make Sufficient Gates and Bridges to be made set down and maintain such reasonable and convenient Bridges with Gates unto the same in wideness not excéeding twelve foot being well and sufficiently railed or walled against the sides as well over any Drain or Ditch now made or hereafter to be made whereby passage may be had into the Fens in such and so many fit and convenient places as shall be thought fit and ordered by any six Commissioners of Sewers for the said County of Lincoln in their publick and open Sessions and the same shall for ever kéep and maintain for convenient and ready passage with Carts and Carriages and all sorts of Cattel
for every Twenty shillings which he or they do receive by his and their respective Practises and Professions in one year allowing to every such person and persons of the several Professions aforesaid one Third part out of such moneys as he or they shall so receive in their respective Practises and Professions for and towards the Charge and Expence occasioned by his or their attendance upon his or their Practice or Professions aforesaid And all and every Servant Servants Wages which at the time of the execution of this Act shall receive Wages for his her or their Service shall pay unto His Majesty the sum of Twelve pence for every Twenty shillings by the year which shall be due or payable to him her or them for his her or their Wages except for Board-wages And all and every person and persons shall pay unto his Majesty the sum of Twelve pence over and above the other Rates charged upon them by this Act. 19 Car. 2. cap. 1. And be it further Enacted In what cases Masters shall pay Servants Assessment That in case any Servant shall upon the demand of such Assessment or Moneys as are due from him or her by vertue of this Act refuse or neglect to pay the same to the respective Collector in such case his or their Master or Mistress shall pay such Servants Assessment And it shall then be lawful for such Master or Mistress to deduct and stop the same out of such Wages as shall or ought to be next paid unto such Servant Any Law or Custom to the contrary notwithstanding Provided always That no person who receives Alms from the Parish Persons receiving Alms exempted nor the Children of any person remaining in his or her Family who by reason of their poverty doth not contribute to the Rates for the Church and Poor and who are under the age of Sixtéen years shall be charged or taxed by vertue of this present Act. Provided also and be it Enacted That every Alien-stranger born out of this Kingdom Aliens shall pay double shall pay double the sum which he or they ought to have paid in any capacity whatsoever in this Act mentioned in case he or they had béen natural born Subjects And be it further Enacted and Ordained Persons of several Ranks and Degrees That all and every person and persons who at the time of the execution of this Act shall be of the several Ranks and Degrées hereafter mentioned shall to the purpose aforesaid contribute and pay the several sums of money hereafter in this Act set down and appointed That is to say Duke Every person of the degrée of a Duke of England Scotland or Ireland inhabiting and residing within this Kingdom shall pay the sum of Fifty pounds Every person of the degrée of a Marquess of any of the said thrée Kingdoms Marquess inhabiting and residing within this Kingdom shall pay the sum of Fourty pounds Every person of the degrée of an Earl of any of the said thrée Kingdoms Earl and inhabiting or residing within this Kingdom the sum of Thirty pounds Viscount Every person of the degrée of a Viscount of any of the said thrée Kingdoms and inhabiting and residing within this Kingdom the sum of Twenty five pounds Every person of the degrée of a Baron of any of the said thrée Kingdoms Baron and inhabiting or residing within this Kingdom the sum of Twenty pounds Eldest Son of a Duke Every eldest Son of a Duke of any of the said thrée Kingdoms and inhabiting or residing within this Kingdom being of the age of One and twenty years the sum of Thirty pounds Eldest Son of a Marquess Every eldest Son of a Marquess of any of the said thrée Kingdoms and inhabiting and residing within this Kingdom being of the age of One and twenty years the sum of Twenty five pounds Eldest Son of an Earl Every eldest Son of an Earl of any of the said thrée Kingdoms and inhabiting or residing within this Kingdom being of the age of One and twenty years the sum of Twenty pounds Eldest Son of a Viscount Every eldest Son of a Viscount of any of the said thrée Kingdoms and inhabiting or residing within this Kingdom being of the age of One and twenty years the sum of Seventéen pounds ten shillings Eldest Son of a Baron Every eldest Son of a Baron of any of the said thrée Kingdoms and inhabiting or residing within this Kingdom being of the age of One and twenty years the sum of Fiftéen pounds Baronet Every person of the degrée of a Baronet of any of the said thrée Kingdoms or of Nova Scotia and inhabiting or residing within this Kingdom the sum of Fiftéen pounds Knight of the Bath Every person that is a Knight of the Order of the Bath inhabiting or residing within this Kingdom the sum of Fiftéen pounds Every person who is a Knight Batchelor Knight Batchelor Sergeant at Law Esquire inhabiting or residing within this Kingdom the sum of Ten pounds Every Sergeant at Law the sum of Ten pounds Every person of the degrée of an Esquire or so reputed inhabiting or residing within this Kingdom and above the age of One and twenty years the sum of Five pounds Every Widow respectively according to her Husbands degrée â—â—dow shall pay the third part rated by this Act upon that degrée of which the Husband of such Wife was in his life-time Gentleman And every Gentleman or reputed Gentleman above the age of Sixtéen years the sum of Twenty shillings Proviso for Gentlemen not having 300 l. Estate Provided always That every Gentleman having an Estate of the value of Thrée hundred pounds or more shall be charged with the sum of Twenty shillings by vertue of this Act though he be a Minor under the age of One and twenty years And no Gentleman not having such an Estate and shall thereof make Oath before any two or more of the respective Commissioners shall be charged with the said sum of Twenty shillings in respect of his Title And be it further Enacted and Ordained That all and every the person and persons within the Kingdom of England Dominion of Wales and Town of Berwick upon Tweed who at the time of the execution of this Act Orders Ranks and Degrees shall be of the several Orders Ranks or Degrées hereafter mentioned shall to the purpose aforesaid pay the several sums of money hereafter in this Act set down and appointed Archbishop Bishop that is to say Every person of the Order and Degrée of an Archbishop shall pay the sum of Fifty pounds Every person of the Order and Degrée of a Bishop the sum of Twenty pounds Dean Every person of the Degrée of a Dean of any Cathedral or Collegiate Church shall pay the sum of Ten pounds Archdeacon Every person of the Degrée of an Arch-Deacon shall pay the sum of Forty
in course And that the Gold and Silver brought in and Coyned as aforesaid shall be in the same order delivered to the respective bringers in thereof their Executors Administrators or Assigns successively without preference of one before the other and not otherwise And if any undue preference be made in Entring of any Gold or Silver or delivering out of any money Coyned contrary to the true intent and meaning of this Act by any Officer or Officers of the Mint or Mints Penalty then the party or parties offending shall be liable by Action of Debt or in the Case to pay the value of the Gold or Silver brought in and not Entred and Delivered according to the true intent and meaning and direction of this Act as aforesaid with Damages and Costs to the party or parties grieved and shall be fore-judged from his or their Place or Office And if such preference be unduly made by any of his or their Deputy or Deputies Clerk or Clerks without direction or privity of his or their Master or Masters then such Deputy or Deputies Clerk or Clerks onely shall be liable to such Action Damage and Costs as aforesaid and be for ever after uncapable of serving or bearing Office in any Mint in the Kingdom of England Provided always That it shall not be interpreted any undue preference to incur any penalty in point of Delivery of moneys Coyned if the Officer or Officers What shall not be an undue preference or their Deputies or Clerks shall deliver out or pay any moneys Coyned to any person or persons that do come and demand the same upon subsequent Entries before others that did not come to demand their moneys in their order and course so as there be so much money reserved as will satisfie them which shall not be otherwise disposed of but kept for them And for the more orderly and clear performance thereof Be it Enacted And it is hereby Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That the Master-worker of His Majesties Mint or Mints for the time being shall at the time of the Delivery and Entry of any Gold or Silver in the said Mint or Mints give unto the bringer or bringers in thereof to be Coyned a Bill under his hand denoting the Weight Fineness and Value thereof together with the Day and Order of its Delivery into the said Mint or Mints And for the further Encouragement and Assurance of such as shall bring any Gold or Silver into his Majesties said Mint or Mints to be Coyned Be it Enacted There shall be no seisure or forfeiture c. of any Gold or Silver brought in to be coyned And it is hereby Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That no Confiscation Forfeiture Seizure Attachment Stop or Restraint whatsoever shall be made in the said Mint or Mints of any Gold or Silver brought in to be Coyned for or by reason of any Imbargo breach of the Peace Letters of Mart or Reprisal or War with any Foreign Nation or upon any other accompt or pretence whatsoever But that all Gold and Silver brought into any of his Majesties Mint or Mints within the Kingdom of England to be Coyned shall truly and with all convenient spéed be Coyned and delivered out to the respective bringer or bringers in thereof their Executors Administrators or Assigns according to the Rules and Directions of this Act. And whereas it cannot be reasonably expected that the Expence Waste and Charge in Assaying Melting down and Coynage be born by Your Majesty And for the further encouragement of Coynage Be it Enacted And it is hereby Enacted by the Authority aforesaid An Imposition set upon Wines Vinegar Sider or Beer Imported That for every Tun of Wines Vineger Sider or Béer that shall be Imported or brought into the Port of London or into any other Port Créek or place within the Kingdom of England Dominion of Wales or Town of Berwick upon Tweed from any parts beyond the Seas or Scotland from and after the Twentieth day of December in the year of our Lord One thousand six hundred sixty and six there shall be Levied Collected and paid the sum of Ten shillings And for every Tun of Brandy-wines or Strong-waters that shall be imported as abovesaid the sum of Twenty shillings Brandy-wine Strong-water and so proportionably for a greater or lesser quantity to be Levied Collected and paid at the respective Custom-Houses to the Collectors and other Officers of the Customs for the time being at the Importation of the said Commodities over and above all other Duties charged leviable and payable upon the said Commodities and to be by them distinguished and kept apart from all other moneys by them Collected and Levied upon the same Commodities or upon any other Commodities or Merchandizes whatsoever and to be by the said Collector or Collectors respectively so answered and paid Quarterly into the Receipt of the Exchequer of Your Majesty Your Heirs and Successors there also to be kept distinct and apart from all other moneys arising by the Customs or by any other way or Revenue whatsoever which said Duty they are hereby injoyned to receive and pay according to the several Directions of this Act without any Salary or Fée And be it further Enacted and Declared by the Authority aforesaid That all manner of Wines Vinegar Sider Béer Brandy-wines and Strong-waters Imported as aforesaid shall pay their several and respective Duties imposed by this Act And upon non-payment thereof shall be liable to such and the same pains penalties and forfeitures as in and by the late Acts for Tunnage and Poundage and for Frauds are Enacted and appointed upon non-payment of the Duties by the said Acts imposed upon Goods and Merchandises of the same nature with those mentioned in this Act. Provided always and it is hereby Enacted That for what of the aforesaid Commodities shall be Transported into any parts beyond the Seas within the term and space of one year after the Importation thereof That the Duty paid by this Act for the same shall be repaid by the respective Collectors of the Customs for the time being And it is hereby further Enacted That no moneys leviable and payable by this Act shall be applied or converted to any use or uses whatsoever Moneys leviable upon this Act shall be imployed onely to the use of the Mint other then to the defraying the charge or expence of the Mint or Mints and of the Assaying Melting down Waste and Coynage of Gold and Silver and the encouragement of the bringing in of Gold and Silver into the said Mint or Mints there to be Coyned into the current Coyns of this Kingdom Nor shall any of the said Moneys be issued out of the Exchequer but by Order or Warrant of the Lord Treasurer and Vnder-Treasurer or Commissioners of the Treasury for the time being to the Master and Worker or Masters and Workers of Your Majesties Mint or Mints for the time being and mentioning That they
17 Car. 2. 6. Prisoners 1 How stocks shall be provided for relief and setting prisoners on Work 19 Car. 2. 4. 2 How to be removed in time of Plague 19 Car. 2. 9â— Privy Council 1 The Privy Council regulated and Court of Star-Chamber taken away 17 Car. 1. 10. 2. May not examine or determine of the Lands Tenements or Goods of any Subject of this Kingdom but the same ought to be by the ordinary course of the Law 17 Car. 2. 10. 3. How persons committed by the Privy Councel may have their Habeas Corpus ibid. Proces and Judicial Proceedings 1. What Proces Writs Pleas and other judicial Proceedings shall be continued and proceeded upon 12 Car. 2. 3. 2. What proceedings in Law shall not be avoided for defects faults or alterations of Styles or Forms 12 Car. 2. 12. See Judicial Proceedings Purveyance 1. Preemption and Purveyance taken away 12 Car. 2.24 See Carriages Quakers 1 The penalty upon certain persons called Quakers refusing to take a lawful Oath 13 Car. 2. 1 Stat. 3. Recoveries 1 Common Recoveries Confirmed 12 Car. 2. 12. See Judicial proceedings Rectories and Advowsons taken from certain persons upon pretended delinquencies in the late troubles restored to the right owners 14 Car. 2. 25. Recusants 1 The penalty of sending or being sent to any Popish University or School beyond Seas 3 Car. 1. 2. Replevins See Distresses Rivers 1 The River of Avon to be made Navigable from Christ-Church to the City of new Sarum 16 and 17 Car. 2. 12. Ryots and unlawful assemblies See Petition Sabbath 1. ASsemblies and unlawful Pastimes upon the Lords-day forbidden 1 Car. 1. 1. 2. Carriers Waggoners Brewers shall not travel upon the Lords-day called Sunday 3 Car. 1. 1. 3. Butchers shall not â—ell or kill Meat upon the Lords-day 3 Car. 1.1 4. A restraint of divers other Abuses committed on the Lords-day 3 Car. 1. 1. Saltpeter See Gunpowder Scotland 1. The prevention and punishment of Thefts and Rapines by Moss Troopers upon the borders of England and Scotland 14 Car. 2. 22. Scrivener See Usury Sea-coals See Coals Sewers 1. A supply of the Statute of H. 8. for present nominating Commissioners of the Sewers 12 Car. 2. 6. Sheep See Wooll c. Sheriffs 1. Sheriff may not keep Tables at the Assizes for others then their own Family and Retinue nor make any Present or Gift to any Judges of Assize 14 Car. 2. 21. 2. How Sheriffs shall be eased in passing their Accounts in the Exchequer 14 Car. 2. 21. 3. Shall not answer illeviable Seisures Farms Rents c. Ibidem Ships and Shipping 1. From what foreign parts Goods may be imported onely in English Ships 12 Car. 2. 18. 2. No Goods to be laded or carried out of England in the the Vessels of any other not Denizen'd 12 Car. 2. 18. 3. Encouragement of the Shipping and Trading by the English into their Plantations of Asia Africa and America 12 Car. 2. 18. 15 Car. 2. 7. 4. Articles and Orders for better government of his Majesty's Navies Ships of War and Forces by Sea 13 Car. 2. 9. 5. How provision of carriage by Land and Water shall be made for the use of the Navy and Ordnance 14 Car. 2. 20. 6. The Penalty for imbezelling of Stores and Ammunition belonging to his Majesty's Navy-Royal 16 Car. 2. 5. 19 Car. 2. 7. 7. Who may punish Disturbances by Sea-men and others relating to the Navy-Royal 16 Car. 2. 5. 19 Car. 2. 7. 8. The penalty for delivering up English Merchant-ships to Turks or Pyrats 16 Car. 2. 6. 9. Builders of new Ships encouraged 14 Car. 2. 11. Ship-money 1. Certain proceedings touching Ship-money declared illegal and the Records thereof made void 17 Car. 1. 4. Silk and Silkthrowers See Manufactures Souldiers and Seamen 1. Such Souldiers as were instrumental in his Majesty's Restauration may exercise Trades 12 Car. 2. 16. Such as deserted the Kings Service or refuse to take the Oath of Allegiance excepted Ibid. 2. The Militia and ordering and disposing of the Forces and Souldiers by Sea and Land declared to be onely in the King 13 Car. â— 6. 14 Car. â— 3. See Ships and Shipping 3. How the Forces in the several Counties of this Kingdom shall be ordered 14 Car. 2. 3. 15 Car. 2. 4. 4. Relief of poor and maimed Souldiers who faithfully served his Majesty and his Royal Father in the late Wars 14 Car. 2. 9. Stannaries 1. Certain Inchroachments and Oppressions in the Stannary Court redressed 17 Car. 1. 15. Star-Chamber 1. The Court of Star-chamber taken away 17 Car. 1.10 2. All matters examinable in Star-chamber may be examined and redressed by the Common Law 17 Car. 1.10 3. No Court or Councel to be erected may have the like Jurisdiction 17 Car. 1. 10. Statutes 1. All Acts that are upon continuance shall remain in force till otherwise ordered by Parliament 17 Car. 1. 4. 2. A Repeal of some and continuance of divers other Statutes 3 Car. 1. 4. 3. Divers publick Acts made 12 Car. 2. confirmed 13 Car. 2. 7. and cap. 11. 14. Statute-staple See Extent Stuffs 1. The regulating of making of Stuffs in Norfolk and Norwich See Norwich Subsidy 1. A Subsidy and Royal Aid granted to his Majesty by a Monethly Assesment leviable in three years 16 17 Car. 2. 1. 2. A further supply 17 Car. 2. 1. 3. One Moneths Assesment granted to the King for his Royal Highness the Duke of York 17 Car. 2. 9. 4. See Excise Tunnage and Poundage Hearth-money Poll-money Benevolence 5. A further supply by a Monethly Assesment granted to his Majesty for eleven Moneths 19 Car. 2. 8. Suits See Arrests and Delays TApistry See Manufactures Terâ— 1 Michaelmas Term abbreviated and the manner of Continuances and Returnâ— of Writs 17 Car. 1. 6. Tobacco 1 The planting setting or sowing of Tobacco in England prohibited under several penalties 12 Car. 2. 34. 2 Certain further penalties for planting Tobacco in England 15 Car. 2. 7. Treason 1 What shall be adjudged Treason during his Majesties life 13 Car. 2. 1. 2 Offences disabling persons to bear any Office during the Kings life 13 Car. 2. 1. 3 Offences which incur a Praemunire ibid. See Attainder Tumults See Petitions and Riots Tunnage and Poundage 1 The Causes and Trusts upon granting Tunnage and Poundage for defending the Seas 12 Car. 2. 4. 2 To be paid according to the Book of Rates agreed by the Commons House of Parliament for ascertaining the same ibid. 3 What Fees the Custom-Officers may take ibid. 4 Prisage of Wines not to pay the said Duty ibid. 5 The penalty for committing frauds and abuses about the Customs 14 Car. 2. 11. Vestry 1 HOw Vestry-men shall be Elected and the Oath they are to take 15 Car. 2. 5. Uniting of Parishes See Corporations Usury 1 The penalty upon him that shall take above Six in the Hundred for the Loan of One hundred pounds for a year 12 Car. 2. 13. 2 The forfeiture of a Scrivener that shall take excessive Brocage Ibid. Uniformity See Ecclesiastical Matters c. Wales 1 JUry-men in Wales must be worth 8 l. per annum 16 17 Car. 2. 3. 2. The Statute concerning Replevins and Avowries upon Distresses shall extend to Wales 19 Car. 2. 5. Wards and Wardships 1 The Court of Wards and Liveries and Tenures in Capite and Knights Service and Purveyance taken away 12 Car. 2. cap. 24. And the Imposition upon Ale and Beer and other Liquors granted to the King his Heirs and Successors ibid. Weavers 1 Linnen Weavers may set up the Trade in any places where they please 15 Car. 2. 15. Weights and Measures 1 There shall be but one Weight and Measure throughout the Kingdom 17 Car. 1. 19. Wines 1 The King may issue Commission to licence the uttering of Wines by Retail 12 Car. 2.25 2 The Agents for granting Wine-Licences may grant them not exceeding 21 years if the person so long live upon Rent reserved but no Fine to be taken ibid. 3 How and by whom the prices of Wines shall be set 12 Car. 2. 25. 4 The Power of granting Wine-Licences setled upon the Duke of York in tail 15 Car. 2. 14. Wood. 1 The penalty for unlawful cutting spoyling and stealing of Wood and Under-wood young Timber Trees Poles c. 15 Car. 2. 2. Wooll Woolf ls c. 1 The Exportation of Wooll Woollfels Fullers Earth or any kind of scowring prohibited under several penalties 12 Car. 2. 32. 2 Exporting of Sheep Wooll Woolfels Mortlings Shorelings Yarn of Wooll Wooll-Flocks Fullers Earth Fulling Clay Tobacco-Pipe clay prohibited upon certain penalties 14 Car. 2. 18. 3 Importing of Forein Wooll-Cards Card-wire and Iron-wire prohibited 14 Car. 2. 19. Yarn See Wooll c. FINIS
by the Authority aforesaid That every Chéese-monger or other person whatsoever which shall sell to any person or persons any Kilderkin or Kilderkins Firkin or Firkins Pot or Pots or other Cask of Butter made after the said First day of June Cheese-mongers and all sellers of butter by the Kilderkin or c. shall deliver the full quantity to the Retailer which shall be in the year of our Lord One thousand six hundred sixty and Two shall deliver in every such Kilderkin Firkin and other Cask and Pot respectively the full quantity and due quality appointed by this Act and not less or in default thereof shall be liable to make satisfaction to him or them that buy the same for what shall be wanting according to the price for which the same was sold And be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That from and after the said First day of June None shall repack butter which shall be in the year of our Lord One thousand six hundred sixty and two no Chéese-monger or other person or persons whatsoever shall repack for sale any Butter in any Kilderkin Firkin The penalty or other Cask or Pot whatsoever upon pain and penalty that every Chéese-monger or other person whatsoever which shall repack any Butter into any Kilderkin or Kilderkins Firkin or Firkins Cask or Casks Pot or Pots to sell the same again shall for every Firkin Cask or Pot so packed forfeit the sum of Double the value of all such Butter And for the better discovery of all frauds and abuses which shall be committed against this Act Be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That every Farmer and other person persons packing up Butter in Kilderkins Firkins or any other Cask whatsoever for sale do from after the said First day of June which shall be in the year of our Lord One thousand six hundred sixty two pack up his Butter into good sufficient Cask Farmers and other sellers shall set their marks of the weight upon good and sufficient Casks made of sound dry well-seasoned Timber and shall set upon every Firkin and Cask whatsoever when the same is throughly and fully seasoned in water a continuing visible mark of the just Weight of the empty Cask and do likewise set upon every Kilderkin Firkin and Cask when the same is filled with Butter the first Letter of his or their Christian name and his or their Sirname at length with an Iron brand upon pain and penalty that every Farmer or other person or persons whatsoever offending in not putting on the Mark of such Weight of Kilderkin And their names Firkin or other Cask after seasoning or not setting the first Letter of his or their Christian name and his or their Sirname at length on every Firkin and Cask as aforesaid shall for every such offence respectively forfeit the sum of Ten shillings for every Hundred weight of Butter and so proportionably for a greater or lesser quantity that shall be in every such Cask Potters shall set their weight of every pot burnt and their names And be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That every Potter shall set upon every Pot which he shall sell for packing up of Butter the just weight which shall be of every such Pot when it is burnt together with the first Letter of his or their Christian name and his or their Sirname at length upon pain and penalty that every Potter which shall not so do shall forfeit pay for every Pot which he shal expose to sale for the use aforesaid whereupon he shall not have first set the just Weight and the first Letter of his Christian name and his Sirname at length as aforesaid the sum of One shilling and that no Farmer or other person whatsoever shall expose to sale any Butter packed up in any other Pot than such as shall be marked by the Potter as aforesaid upon penalty of Two shillings for every Pot of Butter which he shall expose to sale as is not so marked all and every of which said Offences are to be enquired of sued for heard and determined in the Sessions of Peace for the County City Borough Town or Liberty or in the Court of Record of the City Borough Town or Liberty wherein such offence shall be committed by Action of Debt Indictment Information or Presentment How to be disposed wherein no Essoign Protection or Wager of Law shall be allowed to the Defendant and the one half of all such Forfeitures shall be to the use of the poor people inhabiting within the Parish where such offence shall be from time to time committed to be paid to the Church-Wardens and Overséers of the poor of and in such Parish and the other half to him or them that will sue for the same Double Costs besides his double Costs thereby expended Provided That every Suit and Information which shall be brought upon this Act Within what made suit must be begun upon this Act. shall be commenced within four moneths after the sale of such Butter CAP. XXVII For Repairing of Dover-Harbour WHereas it is found by long experience that Dover-Harbour is and hath béen of very great use and benefit to the Merchants of this Realm and others passing through the Narrow Seas whereunto they have and do enter to avoid imminent danger of Tempests Pirats or the Common Enemy in time of War And whereas the said Harbour of late by Tempests and the violence of the Sea hath béen much broken ruined and decayed and in great danger of being lost unless timely prevented by repairing thereof which cannot be without great charges and expences as well in the present repair as in the future maintenance of the same whereof his Majesty being Informed and minding the good and safety of Merchants and Sea-faring men hath of late of his Majesties goodness and liberality bestowed a great sum of money in and about the repairing of the said Harbour which yet is not sufficient to carry on that work and to secure it for the future And to the end that the same may be from time to time maintained and kept in good repair for the use and benefit of Merchants and Sea-faring men And that such provision for the maintenance thereof may now be made 1 Jac. cap. 32. as by an Act of Parliament made in the First year of his Majesties Grand-father King James of ever blessed memory hath béen formerly done and provided for Be it Enacted by the Kings most Excellent Majesty by and with the Advice and Consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal and the Commons in this present Parliament assembled and by the Authority of the same That from and after the Four and twentieth day of June next ensuing during the space of seven years thence next following there shall be paid by the Master Duties payable at and towards the Repair of Dover-Harbour or Owner of every Ship
Vessel or Crayer whereof any of his Majesties Subjects of England shall be Owners or Part-owners of the burthen of Twenty Tuns or upwards and not excéeding the burthen of Two hundred and fifty Tun for every Voyage Loading or Discharging within this Realm or to or from any Foreign Countrey beyond the Seas and passing to or from London or for from to or by Dover or coming into the Harbour there not having a Cocquet testifying his payment before for the Voyage towards the Repair of Dover-Harbour the sum of Thrée pence for every Tun of the burthen of every such Ship Vessel or Crayer except Vessels loaden with Sea-Coals or Grind-stones or Purbeck or Portland-stone and for every Chauldron of Sea-coals or Tun of Grind-stones peny half-peny the same to be paid to the Customer or Collector of Customs or Subsidies or their Deputies within this Realm in such Port from whence such Ship Vessel or Crayer shall set forth or where such Ship Vessel or Crayer shall arrive before they load or unload the Goods therein The Accompt of the number of the said number of the said Tuns to be made according to the Entry of Goods in every Ship Vessel or Crayer in the Custom-house and no Entry thereof to be allowed in any Office of Customs or Subsidies without true information before made by oath of the Master Owner or Shipper of such Ship Vessel or Crayer concerning the burthen thereof and payment by him made of the sums aforesaid of which payment the Master Owner or Shipper paying the same shall have allowance of the Merchants according to the rate of the Goods in the same Ship Vessel or Crayer by way of Average And the Customer or Collector or his Deputy receiving the sums aforesaid or any of them shall disburse and pay the same from time to time to the Treasurer of the said Harbour for the time being or such person or persons as he shall assign to receive the same to be expended in and about the repair of the said Harbour And every Customer or Comptroller or their Deputies that shall make any Entries of Customs or Subsidies of any Goods in the said Ships Vessels or Crayers before such Information as aforesaid concerning the burthen thereof shall be made or before payment made of the sums before limited to be paid by this Act or shall make any wilful default in not collecting the said sums or any of them or not paying the same over from time to time to the Treasurer of the said Harbour for the time being or such person or persons as he shall assign to receive the same as aforesaid shall forfeit to the use of the Reparations of the said Harbour Ten pounds for every such default to be recovered by Action of Debt in any Court of Record by the Warden and Assistants of the said Harbour for the time being in which Suit no Essoign Protection or Wager of Law shall be allowed Who shall inspect and oversee the Repairs Provided alwayes and be it Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That it shall and may be lawful to and for the Master and Wardens of the Trinity-House of London for the time being to appoint such person or persons as they shall think fit to inspect and oversée the repairs and works to be made for the security of the said Harbour And that they may once every year during the term of seven years aforesaid require an accompt of the respective Collectors of the Duties aforesaid and the Treasurer for the said Harbour for the time being of the moneys by them respectively received by vertue of this Act and of the disbursments thereof And if the said Collectors and Treasurer shall not within six wéeks next after demand of such Accompt give in the same accordingly or if thereupon it shall appear that the said money shall not be duly disbursed in and about the said Repair and the Works for the securing and maintenance of the said Harbour according to the intent of this Act or if the said Harbour shall within the time aforesaid be sufficiently repaired and secured That then the said Master and Wardens shall inform the Lords of his Majesties Privy Council thereof who shall and may thereupon and to that purpose are hereby impowred to suspend or cause all and every further payments by vertue of this Act to cease and determine if they shall sée cause Proviso for Ships belonging to Weymouth Melcomb-Regis Lime Regis Provided always and be it Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That all Ships and Vessels belonging to the Ports of Weymouth and Melcombe-Regis and Lime-Regis in the County of Dorset having a Peire and Cob of their own which by reason of their poverty at present they are not able to maintain shall be exempt from contributing or paying any thing to the Harbour of Dover mentioned in this Act Any thing herein contained to the contrary notwithstanding so as they shall bring Certificate made upon Oath before the Mayor and under the Common Seal of the said respective Corporations That the said Ships and Vessels do properly belong thereunto And that the Inhabitants of the said respective Corporations are Owners of the major part of the said Vessels Provided always and be it hereby Enacted That this Act or any thing herein contained shall not extend to Authorize the Collection of more then the sum of Twenty two thousand pounds in the whole And then the said Collection to cease CAP. XXVIII Pilchard Fishing in the Counties of Devon and Cornwal Regulated Fishery of great concernment to this Nation WHereas the Publick Honour Wealth and Safety of this Realm as well in the the maintenance of Trade and support of Navigation as in many other respects doth in an high degrée depend upon the improvement and incouragement of the Fishery And forasmuch as of late years there have divers pernicious disorders and abuses by the licentiousness of the times crept in and yet continue evidently destructive to that Trade for prevention and redress whereof there is no Law hitherto particularly provided in the growing evils occasioned by Driving-Nets and other fraudulent and injurious practises to the extream damage of the Fishery Be it therefore Enacted by the Kings most Excellent Majesty by and with the Advice and Consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal and the Commons in Parliament assembled Times prohibited to Fish in Cornwall and Devon and it is Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That from and after the Five and twentieth day of May One thousand six hundred sixty and two no person or persons shall in any year from the First day of June till the last of November presume to take Fish in the high Sea or in any Bay Port Créek or Coast of or belonging to Cornwal or Devon with any Drift-Net Trammel or Stream-Net or Nets or any other Nets of that sort or kind Penalty unless it be at the distance of one League and an half at least from the