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
two or more credible witnesses in such manner and from time to time as he shall respectively think fit to dispose of the custody and tuition of such child or children for and during such time as he or they shall respectively remain under the age of 21 years or any lesser time to any person or persons in possession or remainder other then Popish Recusants And that such disposition of the custody of such child or children made since the 24th of February Actions of ravishment of wards 1645. or hereafter to be made shall be good and effectual against all and every person or persons claiming the custody or tuition of such child or children as Guardian in soccage or otherwise And that such person or persons to whom the custody of such child or children hath béen or shall be so disposed or devised as aforesaid shall and may maintain an action of Ravishment of Ward or Trespass against any person or persons which shall wrongfully take away or detain such child or children for the recovery of such child or children and shall and may recover damages for the same in the said Action for the use and benefit of such child or children And be it further Enacted The sands of children and the management of their personal estate by their guardians That such Person or Persons to whom the custody of such Child or Children hath béen or shall be so disposed or devised shall and may take into his or their custody to the use of such Child or Children the profits of all Lands Tenements and Hereditaments of such Child or Children and also the custody tuition and management of the Goods Chattels and personal Estate of such Child or Children till their respective Age of 21 years or any lesser time according to such disposition aforesaid and may bring such Action or Actions in relation thereunto as by Law a Guardian in common soccage might do Provided also That this Act or any thing therein contained shall not extend to alter or preiudice the custom of the City of London nor of any other City or Town Corporate or of the Town of Berwick on Tweed concerning Orphants nor to discharge any Apprentice from his Apprenticeship Provided also That neither this Act nor any thing therein contained Proviso touching Titles of honour feodal shall infringe or hurt any Title of Honour Feodal or other by which any person hath or may have right to sit in the Lords House of Parliament as to his or their Title of Honour or sitting in Parliament and the priviledge belonging to them as Péers This Act or any thing therein contained to the contrary in any wise notwithstanding And whereas by like experience it hath béen found Purveyances and provisions for the Kings house-hold taken away Alt. St. 13 Car. 2. cap. 7. that though divers good strict and wholesome Laws have béen made in the times of sundry his Majesties most noble Progenitors some extending so far as to life for Redress of the grievances and oppressions committed by the persons imployed for making provisions for the Kings houshold Carriages and other purveyance for his Majesty and his occasions Yet divers oppressions have béen still continued and several Counties have submitted themselves to sundry Rates and Taxes and Compositions to redéem themselves from such vexations and oppressions And forasmuch as the Lords and Commons assembled in Parliament do find that the said Remedies are not fully effectual and that no other remedy will be so effectual and just as to take away the occasion thereof especially if satisfaction and recompence shall be therefore made to his Maiesty his Heirs and Successors which is hereby provided to his Majesties good liking and content His Majesty is graciously pleased That it may be Enacted And be it Enacted by the Kings most Excellent Majesty by and with the advice and consent of the Lords and Commons in this present Parliament assembled That from henceforth no sum or sums of Money or other thing shall be taken raised tared rated imposed paid or levied for or in regard of any provision Carriages or purveyance for his Majesty His Heirs or Successors Purveyances for the King Queen c. And that henceforth 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 for the time being Timber Carts Carriages c. taken away or that shall be or for his their or any of their Houshold shall take any Timber Fewel Cattel Corn Grain Mault Hay Straw Victual 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 the said Subjects to furnish or find any Horses Oxen or other Cattel Carts Ploughs Wains or other Carriages for the use of His Majesty His Heirs or Successors or of any Quéen of England or of any Child or Children of any the Kings or Quéens of England for the time being for the carrying the Goods of His Majesty His Heirs or Successors or the said Quéens or Children or any of them without such full and frée consent as aforesaid any Law Statute Custom or Vsage to the contrary notwithstanding No pre-emption to be allowed or claimed in behalf of the King c. And be it further Enacted That no pre-emption shall be allowed or claimed in the behalf of His Majesty or of any His Heirs or Successors or of any the Quéens of England or of any the Children of the Royal Family for the time being in Market or out of Market but that it be for ever hereafter frée to all and every of the Subjects of His Majesty to sell dispose or employ his said Goods to any other person or persons as himself listeth any pretence of making provision or purveyance of Victual Carriages or other thing for his Majesty His Heirs or Successors or of the said Quéens or Children or any pretence of pre-emption in their or any of their behalfs notwithstanding And if any person or persons shall make provision or purveyance for His Majesty His Heirs or Successors The Penalty or any the Quéens or Children aforesaid or impress or take any such Carriages or other things aforesaid on any pretence or colour of any Warrant aforesaid under the Great Seal or otherwise contrary to the intent hereof it shall be be lawful for the Iustices of Peace or such two or one of them as dwell near and to the Constables of such parish or Village where such occasion shall happen at the request of the party grieved And they are hereby enioyned to commit or cause to be committed the party or parties so doing and
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
in Parliament in the Twelfth year of His Majesties Reign Entituled An Act for taking away the Court of Wards and Liveries 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 of the Subjects of His Majesty his Heirs or Successors without the frée 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 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 Quéen of England or of any Child or Children of any the Kings or Quéens of England for the time being for the Carrying the Goods of his Majesty his Heirs or Successors or the said Quéens or Children or any of them without such full and frée consent as aforesaid any Law Statute Custome or Vsage to the contrary notwithstanding which Act may prove very prejudicial and inconvenient to the Kings Majesty in his Royal Progresses upon his necessary occasions to several parts of this Realm in case any person or persons shall obstinately refuse voluntarily to provide sufficient Carriages for Royal service at ordinary and usual Rates for such Carriages as are paid by others of his Subjects in such places contrary to the true intent and meaning of the said Act. Clerk or chief Officer of his Majâ—sties carriages by Warrant from the Green-cloath to provide Carts c. for his Majesties use Be it therefore Enacted by the Kings most Excellent Majesty by and with the advice and consent of the Lords and Commons in this present Parliament assembled That the Clark or chief Officer of his Majesties Carriages shall thrée dayes at least before his Majesties Arrival by Warrant from the Gréen cloth give notice in writing to two or more of his Majesties Iustices of the Peace next adjoyning to provide such a number of Carts and Carriages from the places next adjacent as His Majesty shall have present use of expressing the certainty of that number as also the time and place when and where the said Carts and Carriages are to attend which Carriages shall consist of four able Horses or six Oxen or four Oxen and two Horses for each of which Cart or Carriage Penalty for refusing to furnish his Majesty the respective Owners shall receive six pence for each Mile they shall go laden And that in case any of his Majesties Subjects of this Realm shall refuse to provide and furnish His Majesty that now is or His Quéen that shall be or His or Her Houshold in their Progress or removals with such sufficient and necessary carriages for their Wardrobe and other necessaries for ready monies tendred to them or shall without just and reasonable cause refuse to make their appearance with such sufficient Carts and Carrâ—â—ges as are before exprest that then upon due proof and conviction of such neglect and refusal by the Oath of the Constable or other Officer or two other credible Witnesses before the said Iustices of the Peace of the County or Mayor or other chief Officer of the City or Corporation where he or they inhabit which Oath they shall have power to administer the party so refusing shall for such his refusal and neglect forfeit the sum of Forty shillings to the King's use to be forthwith levied by distress and sale of his Goods and Chattels rendring to the parties the overplus upon every such sale if there shall be any by Warrant from the said Iustices of the Peace Mayor or other chief Officer Provided alwayes That no Horses Oxen Cart or Wain No horses or carriages to travel above a dayes journey nor without pay of ready money shall be enforced to travel above one dayes journey from the place where they receive their Lading and that ready payment shall be made in hand for the said Carriages at the place of Lading without delay according to the aforesaid Rates And in case any Iustice of the Peace Mayor chief Officer or Constable shall take any Gift or Reward to spare any person or persons from making such Carriage or shall injuriously charge or grieve any person through envy hatred or evill will who ought not to make such Carriage or shall Impress more Carriages then he shall be directed from the Gréen Cloth to do That then upon due proof and conviction thereof the party so offending shall forfeit the sum of Ten pounds to the party thereby grieved or any other who shall sue for the same to be recovered by Action of Debt in any of his Majesties Courts of Record wherein no Protection Essoin Penalty for wrongfull charging any person or Wager of Law shall be allowed And in case any person or persons shall presume to take upon him or them to Impress any horses Oxen cart wain or carriages for his Majesties service other then the person so impowered then he or they so offending shall upon due conviction of the said offence incur and suffer the punishment contained in the first recited Act. And whereas of late in his Majesties Progresses excessive Rates and Prices have béen exacted from his Maiesties servants for lodging horse-meat stable-room and other accomodations Rates for horse-meat and diet for his Majesties Servants Be it therefore Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That none of his Majesties said Servants shall be compelled to pay above one shilling by the night for every bed that they shall use for their servants And that in all such houses where any of his Majesties said servants shall pay for their dyet or for hay and provender for their horses convenient lodging shall be provided for themselves and their Servants without paying any thing for the same And be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid Rates Prices to be set down by two Iustices of the Peace that any two or more of the Iustices of the Peace near adjoyning to the Road through which his Majesty is to pass shall immediately after notice in writing from the said Gréen Cloth and Avenor under their hands and seals set down and appoint such reasonable Rates and Prices to be paid during his Majesties abode there both for hay oats and other accomodations for horses as they in their discretion shall think méet which Rates one day at the least before his Majesties coming to such place the said Iustices
Right of His Majesty and His Royal Predecessors Kings and Quéens of England and that both or either of the Houses of Parliament cannot nor ought to pretend to the same nor can nor lawfully may raise or levy any War Offensive or Defensive against His Majesty His Heirs or lawfull Successors and yet the contrary thereof hath of late years béen practised almost to the ruine and destruction of this Kingdom and during the late usurped Governments many evil and rebellious principles have béen instilled into the minds of the people of this Kingdom which may break forth unless prevented to the disturbance of the peace and quiet thereof His Majesty may issue out Commissions of Lieutenancy to such persons as he shall think fit for the several counties cities c. The power of the said Lieutenants 25 Car. 2. cap. 4. Stat. 3. Be it therefore Declared and Enacted by the Kings most Excellent Majesty by and with the Advice and Consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal and Commons in Parliament Assembled and by the Authority of the same That the Kings most Excellent Majesty his Heirs and Successors shall and may from time to time as occasion shall require issue forth several Commissions of Lieutenancy to such persons as his Majesty his Heirs and Successors shall think fit to be his Majesties Lieutenants for the several and respective Counties Cities and places of England and Dominion of Wales and Town of Berwick upon Tweed which Lieutenants shall have full power and authority to call together all such persons at such times and to arm and aray them in such manner as is hereafter expressed and declared and to form them into Companies Troops and Regiments and in case of Insurrection Rebellion or Invasion them to lead conduct and imploy or cause to be led conducted and imployed as well within the said several Counties Cities and places for which they shall be Commissionated respectively as also into any other the Counties and Places aforesaid for suppressing of all such Insurrections and Rebellions and repelling of Invasions as may happen to be according as they shall from time to time receive directions from His Majesty His Heirs and Successors And that the said respective Lieutenants shall have full Power and Authority from time to time to constitute appoint and give Commissions to such persons as they shall think fit to be Colonels Majors Captains The Deputy-Lieutenants to be named to and approved of by his Majesty and other Commission-Officers of the said persons so to be armed arrayed and weaponed and to present to His Majesty His Heirs and Successors the names of such person and persons as they shall think fit to be Deputy-Lieutenants and upon His Maiesties approbation of them shall give them Deputations accordingly always understood That His Maiesty His Heirs and Successors have power and authority to direct and order otherwise and accordingly at his and their pleasure may appoint and commissionate or displace such Officers Any thing in this Act to the contrary notwithstanding And that the said Lieutenants respectively and in their absence out of the Precincts and Limits of their respective Lieutenancies or otherwise by their directions the said Deputy-Lieutenants The power of the Deputy-Lieutenants during their said respective Deputations or any two or more of them shall have power from time to time to train exercise and put in readiness and also to lead and conduct the persons so to be armed arrayed and weaponed by the directions and to the intents and purposes as is hereafter expressed and declared And for the providing Horse and Arms and Furniture thereunto belonging for the Arming and Weaponing the persons aforesaid and also for the defraying and paying the necessary charges thereunto belonging in manner as hereafter followeth Be it further Enacted The manner of charging and providing Horse and Arms c. That the said respective Lieutenants within the several Counties Cities and Places for which they are nominated respectively and their Deputies or the major part of such Lieutenants and Deputy-Lieutenants then present or in the absence of the Lieutenant or Lieutenants the major part of the Deputy-Lieutenants then present which major part shall be thrée at the least have hereby full Power and Authority to charge any person with Horse Horse-man and Arms or with Foot-Souldier and Arms in the same County Shire City Burrough or Town-Corporate where his her or their Estates lye having respect unto and not excéeding the limitations and proportions hereafter mentioned that is to say No person shall be charged with finding a Horse Horse-man and Arms unless such person or persons have a Revenue of Five hundred pounds by the year in possession or have an Estate of Six thousand pounds in Goods or Money besides the Furniture of his or their Houses and so proportionably for a greater Estate in Lands in possession or Goods as the respective Lieutenants and their Deputies as aforesaid in their discretions shall sée cause and think reasonable And they are not to charge any person with finding a Foot-Souldier and Arms that hath not a yearly Revenue of Fifty pounds in possession or a personal Estate of Six hundred pounds in Goods or Moneys other then the stock upon the ground and after the aforesaid rate proportionably for a greater or lesser Revenue or Estate Nor shall they charge any person with the finding both of Horse and Foot in the same County Provided That no person chargeable by this Act to find an Horse and Horse-man with Arms No person charged with or towards an Horse may be charged also towards foot-arms or to be contributory towards finding an Horse and Horse-man with Arms shall for the same Estate be chargeable towards finding a Foot-Souldier with Arms or contributory thereunto And it shall be lawful to and for the respective Lieutenants and Deputies or any thrée or more of them as aforesaid to impose the finding and providing of Horse Horse-man and Arms as aforesaid by joyning two or thrée or more persons together in the Charge as to their Iudgment shall appear most conducible to the service of this Kingdome Provided That no person that hath not One hundred pounds per annum in possession in Lands What persons and Estate only chargeable towards finding Horse-arms Lieutenants and Deputies may hear and determine matters relating to this Act. Tenements or Hereditaments Lease-hold or Copy-hold or Twelve hundred pounds personal Estate shall be compellable to contribute in finding any Horse and Horse-man with Arms And the said respective Lieutenants and Deputies or any thrée or more of them shall have power to hear Complaints and examine Witnesses upon Oath which Oath they have hereby power to administer and to give redress according to the merits of the cause in matters relating to the execution of this Act. Be it further Enacted That the said Lieutenants and Deputies or any thrée or more of them in their several Counties and Places respectively shall
used by Act of Parliament holden in the said first year of the said late Quéen 2 El. cap. 2. Entituled An Act for the Uniformity of Common Prayer and Service in the Church and Administration of the Sacraments very comfortable to all good people desirous to live in Christian conversation and most profitable to the Estate of this Realm upon the which the Mercy Favour and Blessing of Almighty God is in no wise so readily and plentifully poured as by Common Prayers due using of the Sacraments and often Preaching of the Gospel with Devotion of the Hearers And yet this notwithstanding a great number of people in divers parts of this Realm following their own sensuality and living without knowledg and due fear of God do Wilfully Schismatically abstain and refuse to come to their Parish-Churches and other publick places where Common Prayer Administration of the Sacraments and preaching of the Word of God is used upon the Sundays and other days ordained and appointed to be kept and observed as Holy-days And whereas by the great and scandalous neglect of Ministers in using the said Order or Liturgy so set forth and enjoyned as aforesaid great mischiefs and inconveniences during the times of the late unhappy Troubles have arisen and grown and many people have béen led into Factions and Schisms to the great decay and scandal of the Reformed Religion of the Church of England and to the hazard of many souls For prevention whereof in time to come for setling the Peace of the Church and for allaying the present distempers which the indisposition of the time hath contracted The Kings Declaration and Commission for reviewing the Book of Common Prayer and Alterations to be propounded therein The Kings Majesty according to his Declaration of the Five and twentieth of October One thousand six hundred and sixty granted his Commission under the Great Seal of England to several Bishops and other Divines to review the Book of Common Prayer and to prepare such Alterations and Additions as they thought fit to offer And afterwards the Convocations of both the Provinces of Canterbury and York being by His Majesty called and assembled and now sitting His Majesty hath béen pleased to Authorize and require the Presidents of the said Convocations and other the Bishops and Clergy of the same to re-view the said Book of Common Prayer and the Book of the Form and manner of the Making and Consecrating of Bishops Priests and Deacons And that after mature consideration they should make such Additions and Alterations in the said Books respectively as to them should séem méet and convenient And should exhibit and present the same to his Majesty in writing for his further allowance or confirmation since which time upon full and mature deliberation they the said Presidents Bishops and Clergy of both Provinces have accordingly re-viewed the said Books and have made some Alterations which they think fit to be inserted to the same and some Additional Prayers to the said Book of Common Prayer to be used upon proper and emergent occasions And have exhibited and presented the same unto his Majesty in writing in one Book Entituled The Book of Common Prayer and Administration of the Sacraments and other Rites and Ceremonies of the Church according to the use of the Church of England together with the Psalter or Psalms of David Pointed as they are to be sung or said in Churches and the Form and Manner of Making Ordaining and Consecrating of Bishops Priests and Deacons All which His Majesty having duly considered hath fully approved and allowed the same and recommended to this present Parliament that the said Books of Common Prayer and of the Form of Ordination and Consecration of Bishops Priests and Deacons with the Alterations and Additions which have béen so made and presented to His Majesty by the said Convocations be the Book which shall be appointed to be used by all that Officiate in all Cathedral and Collegiate Churches and Chappels and in all Chappels of Colledges and Halls in both the Vniversities and the Colledges of Eaton and Winchester and in all Parish-Churches and Chappels within the Kingdom of England Dominion of Wales and Town of Berwick upon Tweed and by all that Make or Consecrate Bishops Priests or Deacons in any of the said places under such Sanctions and Penalties as the Houses of Parliament shall think fit Now in regard that nothing conduceth more to the setling of the Peace of this Nation which is desired of all good men nor to the honour of our Religion and the propagation thereof The Peace and Honour of Religion much advanced by Vniform agreement in the Publique Worship of God then an Vniversal argréement in the publique Worship of Almighty God and to the intent that every person within this Realm may certainly know the rule to which he is to conform in Publique Worship and Administrations of Sacraments and other Rites and Ceremonies of the Church of England and the manner how and by whom Bishops Priests and Deacons are and ought to be Made Ordained Consecrated Be it Enacted by the Kings most Excellent Majesty by the Advice and with the Consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal and of the Commons in this present Parliament assembled and by the Authority of the same That all and singular Ministers in any Cathedral Collegiate or Parish-Church or Chappel or other place of Publique Worship within this Realm of England Dominion of Wales and Town of Berwick upon Tweed The Book of Common Prayer shall be used shall be bound to say and use the Morning Prayer Evening Prayer Celebration and Administration of both the Sacraments and all other the Publique and Common Prayer in such order and form as is mentioned in the said Book annexed and ioyned to this present Act and Entituled The Book of Common Prayer and Administration of the Sacraments and other Rites and Ceremonies of the Church according to the use of the Church of England together with the Psalter or Psalms of David Pointed as they are to be sung or said in Churches and the form or manner of Making Ordaining and Consecrating of Bishops Priests and Deacons And that the Morning and Evening Prayers therein contained shall upon every Lords Day and upon all other dayes and occasions and at the times therein appointed be openly and solemnly Read by all and every Minister or Curate in every Church Chappel or other place of publique Worship within this Realm of England All Parsons Vicars and Ministers to read and declare their assent to use the same and places aforesaid And to the end that Vniformity in the publique Worship of God which is so much desired may be spéedily effected Be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That every Parson Vicar or other Minister whatsoever who now hath and enjoyeth any Ecclesiastical Benefite or Promotion within this Realm of England or places aforesaid shall in the Church Chappel or place of publique
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
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
Road safety and preservation of Ships that may resort thither as well in peril of Storms as otherwise to lade or unlade their Goods and to alter repair and amend the same or any part of it from time to time as oft as néed shall require And to the end that the making the said River Navigable and passable for Barges Boats Lighters and other Vessels and the erecting and making the said Haven Channels Sasses Locks Wears Turnpikes Penns for Water Wharfs Bridges Ways and Passages as aforesaid or other things may not be any way prejudicial to the Inheritance Possession or profit of any person or persons Bodies Politick or Corporate whatsoever that have any Lands Tenements Wears or Hereditaments adjoyning unto the said River or Streams Brooks new Chanels and Passages as aforesaid or any of them or through which the same shall be made or cut as aforesaid Satisfaction to parties endamaged in any of their lands Be it therefore Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That the said Vndertakers before they do meddle with the Lands Inheritance Possession or Profit of any person or persons Bodies Politick or Corporate shall first agrée with such persons Bodyes Politick or Corporate for the loss or damage that any of them shall or may any way receive by the making or altering the said Haven Channels Wharfs Sasses Locks Wears and Passages or procure some Order therein to be made by the Commissioners to be Assigned for that purpose as hereafter in this present Act is expressed And for the better effecting of the premisses and the due rating of the value of the things to be compounded for by the true intent of this Statute if the Parties shall not agrée Be it Enacted by the Authority aforesaid Commissioners for compounding with persons so damnifide That at the request and charges of the said Vndertakers One or more Commission or Commissions under the Great Seal of England shall be granted to Edward Earl of Clarendon Lord Chancellor of England Thomas Earl of Southampton Lord High Treasurer of England Philip Earl of Pembroke and Mountgomery William Lord Herbert of Cardiffe Henry Lord Viscount Cornbury George Lord Bishop of Winchester and the Bishop of Winchester for the time being John Lord Bishop of Sarum and the Bishop of Sarum for the time being William Lord Sands Robert Lord Brook Anthony Lord Ashly Chancellor of the Exchequer Sir Edward Nicholas Knight One of His Majesties most Honourable Privy-Council Sir Robert Hyde Knight Lord Chief Iustice of the Kings Bench Sir Wadham Windham Knight one of the Iustices of the Kings Bench Sir George Grubham How Baronet Sir Joseph Ash Baronet Sir John Nicholas Knight of the Bath sir John Low Knight sir Robert Mason Knight sir Thomas Mompesson Knight sir John Clobery Knight Stephen Fox Esquire Clerk of the Gréen-Cloth and one of the Citizens for the City of New-Sarum John Joyce Mayor of the City of New-Sarum and the Mayor of the City for the time being Richard Coleman Esquire Recorder of the City of New-Sarum and the Recorder of the same City for the time being Francis Roll Esquire High Sheriff of the County of Southampton Lawrence Hyde Esquire Humphrey VVeld Esquire Edward Hyde of Hatch Esquire Richard How Esquire John Holt the elder of the Close of the City of New-Sarum Esquire George Vennerd of the City of New-Sarum Esquire Edward Manning Esquire Richard Compton Esquire Thomas Knowles Esquire Philip Lee Esq Walter Bockland Esq VVilliam Swanton Esq Roger Gallop Esq Edward Hooper of Huncourt Esq Will. Tulse Esq John Hobby Esq Henry Tulse Esquire Henry VVhitehead Esq The Mayor of VVilton for the time being and the Mayor of Christ-Church for the time being Samuel Percival Esquire VVilliam Lisle Esquire and Philip Percival Gentleman The power of the said Commissioners Which said Commissioners or any seven or more of them not being Parties concerned shall have full power and Authority and are hereby impowred and Authorized by examination of witnesses upon Oath which Oath they or any seven or more of them have hereby power to administer or by any other lawful ways or means to examine here and determine all and all manner of Controversies Debates and Questions which shall happen and arise betwéen any persons whatsoever touching or concerning any matter or thing relating to the aforesaid Premisses or any part thereof And to appoint determine and decree what and how much satisfaction every such person or persons Body politick or Corporate shall have for or in respect of the loss to be by him her or them sustained notice being first given of their Méeting by Papers publickly affixed to the Church-doors or set up in the Market-places of the City of New-Sarum and the Towns of Christ-Church and Ringwood Ten days at the least before their Méeting declaring the time and place of their Meeting And also notice in writing being first left at the Dwelling-house of every Party concerned or at their usual place of abode or with some Tenant or Occupier of some House Land or Tenement of such party within fiftéen Miles of the said River Which said Determination Sentence and Decrée set down declared and pronounced by the said Commissioners or any seven or more of them and the Price and Recompence by them limited shall bind all Parties therein concerned in Possession Reversion or Remainder or otherwise and as well Infants Feme Coverts as others and their Heirs in Fée-Simple or in Tail and their Executors Administrators and Assigns and all claiming by from or under him her or them or any of them which Order Sentence and Decrée shall be set down in writing under the Hands and Seals of the said Commissioners or any seven or more of them within six wéeks after the first Resort to them for that cause according to this Act the same to be kept among the Records of the Sessions of the Peace for the City of New-Sarum by the Clerk of the Peace for the time being of the said City Transcripts whereof shall be delivered to the several Clerks of the Peace of the respective Counties of VVilts and Southampton to be by them kept upon Record amongst the Records of the Sessions of the said respective Counties All which shall be taken adjudged and déemed good and sufficient Evidence and proof in any Court of Record whatsoever And that upon payment of such sum or sums so ordered or agréed upon to the said persons concerned or tender thereof made at his or their Dwelling-house or the house of his or their Tenant of some Tenement house or Land of theirs within fiftéen miles of the said River and if they have no such Dwelling-house Land or Tenement or if upon such tender at their said Dwelling-house or the House Land or Tenement of such Tenant as aforesaid they refuse or are not ready to receive the same That upon payment of the said sum to the Mayor and Commonalty of the City of New-Sarum in the Council-Chamber of the said City
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.
fol. 25. EXP. 26 An Act for the Raising of Mariners and Saylers for the Guarding of the Seas and his Majesties Kingdoms Cap. 26. fol. 25. EXP. 27 An Act for the dis-enabling all persons in Holy Orders to exercise any Temporal Jurisdiction or Authority Cap. 27. fol. 25. Rep. 13 Car. 1. cap. 2. 28 An Act for the Raising of Souldiers for the defence of England Ireland Cap. 28. fol. 25. EXP. 29 A Subsidy granted to the King of Tunnage and Poundage and other Sums of money payable upon Merchandizes Exportable and Importable Cap. 29. fol. 25. EXP. 30 An Act for a Contribution and Loan for the distressed people of Ireland Cap. 30. fol. 25. EXP. 31 A Subsidy granted to the King of Tunnage and Poundage and other Sums of money payable upon Merchandise Cap. 31. fol. 25. EXP. 32 An Act for the Raising of 400000 l. for the Defence of England and Ireland and for payment of Debts undertaken by the Parliament Cap. 32. fol. 25. EXP. 33 An Act for the Reducing the Rebels in Ireland to their obedience to his Majesty and the Crown of England Cap. 33. fol. 25. EXP. 34 An Act for Explanation of a former Act for Reducing the Rebels in Ireland Cap. 34. fol. 25. EXP. 35 An Act to enable Corporations to adventure in Ireland Cap. 35. fol. 25. EXP. 36 A Subsidy granted to the King of Tunnage and Poundage and other Sums of money payable upon Merchandise to be Exported and Imported Cap. 36. fol. 25. EXP. 37 An Act for the further Reducing the Rebels in Ireland to their obedience to the King and Crown of England Cap. 35. fol. 25. EXP. Anno Duodecimo Caroli Secundi Regis Angliae c. 1. AN Act for removing and preventing all Questions and Disputes concerning the Assembling and Sitting of this present Parliament Cap. 1. Fol. 26. 2 An Act for putting in Execution an Ordinance mentioned in the said Act for an Assessment of 70000 l. per mensem for 3. moneths EXP. Cap. 2. fol. 26. 3 An Act for the continuance of Process and Judicial proceedings cap. 3. fol. 27. 4 A Subsidy granted to the King of Tunnage and Poundage and other sums of money payable upon Merchandize Exported and Imported Cap. 4. fol. 28. 5 An Act for continuing the Excize until the 20th of August 1660. Cap. 5. fol. 30. EXP. See 13 Car. 2. cap. 7. 6 An Act for the present nominating of Commissioners of Sewers Cap. 6. fol. 30. 7 An Act for Restoring unto James Marquess of Ormond all his Honors Manors Lands and Tenements whereof he was in Possession on the 23th day of October 1641. or at any time since Cap. 7. fol. 30. PR 8 An Act for continuing of the Excise till the 25th day of Decemb. 1660. Cap. 8. fol. 31. EXP. See 13 Car. 2. cap. 7. 9 An Act for the speedy Provision of Money for Disbanding and Paying off the Forces of this Kingdom both by Land and Sea Cap. 9. fol. 31. EXP. 10 An Act for Supplying and Explaining certain Defects in an Act Entituled An Act for the speedy Provision of Money for Disbanding and Paying off the Forces of this Kingdom both by Land and Sea Cap. 10. fol. 31. 11 An Act of Free and General Pardon Indempnity and Oblivion Cap. 11. fol. 31. 12 An Act for Confirmation of Judicial Proceedings Cap. 12. fol. 39. 13 An Act for Restraining the taking of Excessive Usury Cap. 13. fol. 42. 14 An Act for a perpetual Anniversary Thanksgiving on the 29th day of May Cap. 14. fol. 42. 15 An Act for the speedy Disbanding of the Army and Garrisons of this Kingdom Cap. 15. fol. 43. 16 An Act for enabling the Souldiers of the Army now to be Disbanded to Exercise Trades Cap. 16. fol. 43. 17 An Act for the Confirming and Restoring of Ministers Cap. 17. fol. 44. 18 An Act for the Encouraging and Increasing of Shipping and Navigation Cap. 18. fol. 44. 19 An Act to prevent Frauds and Concealments of His Majesties Customs and Subsidies Cap. 19. fol. 49. 20 An Act for raising Sevenscore thousand pounds for the compleat Disbanding of the whole Army and paying off some part of the Navy Cap. 20. fol. 49. EXP. See Stat. 13 Car. 2. cap. 6. 21 An Act for the speedy raising of Seventy thousand pounds for the present supply of his Majesty Cap. 21. fol. 49. EXP. See 13 Car. 2. cap. 6. 10. 22 An Act for the Regulating the Trade of Bay-making in the Dutch Bay-Hall in Colchester Cap. 22. fol. 49. 23 A Grant of certain Impositions upon Beer Ale and other Liquors for the encrease of his Majesties Revenue during life Cap. 23. fol. 49. 24 An Act for taking away the Court of Wards and Liveries and Tenures in Capite and by Knights-Service and Purveyance and for setling a Revenue upon his Majesty in lieu thereof Cap. 24. fol. 54. 25. An Act for the better Ordering the selling of Wines by Retayl and for preventing abuses in the mingling corrupting and vitiating of Wines and for setting and limiting the prices of the same Cap. 25. fol. 61. 26 An Act for the Levying of the arrears of the Twelve moneths Assessment commencing the 24th of June 1659. and the Six moneths Assessments commencing the 25th of December 1659. Cap. 26. fol. 63. EXP. See 13 Car. 2. cap. 7. 27 An Act for granting unto the Kings Majesty Four hundred and twenty thousand pounds by an Assessment of Threescore and ten thousand pounds by the moneth for 6 moneths for Disbanding the remainder of the Army and paying off the Navy Cap. 27. fol. 63. EXP. 28 An Act for further Supplying and Explaining certain defects in an Act Entituled An Act for the speedy Provision of Money for Disbanding and Paying off the Forces of this Kingdom both by Land and Sea Cap. 28. fol. 63. EXP. 29 An Act for the Raising of Seventy thousand pounds for the further Supply of his Majesty Cap. 29. fol. 63. EXP. 30 An Act for the Attainder of several persons guilty of the horrid Murther of his late Sacred Majesty King Charles the First Cap. 30. fol. 64. 31 An Act for Confirmation of Leases and Grants from Colledges and Hospitals Cap. 31. fol. 67. 32 An Act for Prohibiting the Exportation of Wooll Woolfells Fullers Earth or any kinds of scouring Earth Cap. 32. fol. 67. 33 An Act for Confirmation of Marriages Cap. 33. fol. 69. 34 An Act for Prohibiting the Planting Setting or Sowing of Tobacco in England and Ireland Cap. 34. fol. 70. 35 An Act for Erecting and Establishing a Post-Office Cap. 35. fol. 71. 36 An Act impowring the Master of the Rolls for the time being to make Leases for years in order to new build the old Houses belonging to the Rolls Cap. 36. fol. 74. 37 An Act for making the Precinct of Covent-Garden Parochial PR Cap. 37. fol. 74. Private Acts. AN Act for the restoring of Henry Lord Arundel of Warder to the possession of his estate An Act for the restitution of Thomas Earl
other intituled an Act for the bringing in of Clapboard from the parts beyond the Seas 35 El. 11. and the restraining of the transporting of wine Casks for the sparing and preserving of Timber within the Realm And so much of one Act made in the five and thirtieth year of the Reign of the said late Quéen Elizabeth intituled an Act to retain the Quéens Majesties Subjects in their due obedience 35 El. 2. as hath not béen since repealed by any other Statute And the several Acts hereafter mentioned 39 El. 4. made in the nine and thirtieth year of the Reign of the late Quéen Elizabeth that is to say an Act intituled an Act for the punishment of Rogues Vagabonds and sturdy Beggars with the provision annexed thereunto 2 Jac. 25. 39 El. 10. by one Act made in the first year of the reign of the late King James intituled an Act for continuing and reviving of divers Statutes and for repealing of some others An Act intituled St. 23 El. 7. 39 El. 14. an Act for the increase of Mariners and for maintenance of Navigation repealing a former Act made in the thrée and twentieth year of her said Majesties Reign bearing the same title an Act intituled an Act prohibiting the bringing into the Realm of forreign Cards for Wool an Act intituled St. 23 El. 7. 39 El. 14. 39 El. 16. 39 El. 17. 43 El. 3. 43 El. 5. 43 El. 2. 1 Jac. 25 an Act for restraining the excessive making of Mault an Act against lewd and wandring persons pretending to be Souldiers or Mariners And the several Acts hereafter mentioned made in the thrée and fortieth year of the said late Quéen Elizabeth that is to say an Act intituled an Act for the necessary relief of Souldiers and Mariners an Act intituled an Act to avoid trifling and frivolous Suits in Law in her Majesties Courts at Westminster an Act intituled An Act for relief of the Poor with the addition thereunto made by an Act made in the first year of the reign of the late King James intituled an Act for continuing of divers Statutes and for repeal of some others and with this further addition And be it Enacted The Overseers of â—oâ— Poor may put out Apprentices The Church-wardens c. may set up any Trade to â—â—nâ— the poor work 43 El. 10. 43 El. 5. 1 Jac. 7. St. 39 El. 4. 1 Jac. 8. 1 Jac. 22. That all persons to whom the Overséers of the Poor shall according to the said Act binde any children Apprentices may take and receive and kéep them as Apprentices And also that the Churchwardens and Overséers of the Poor mentioned in the said Act made in the said thrée and fortieth year may by and with the consent of two or more Iustices of the Peace whereof one to be of the Quorum within their respective limits wherein shall be more Iustices than one and where no more shall be than one with the assent of that one Iustice of the Peace set up use and occupy any Trade Mystery or Occupation only for the setting on work and better relief of the Poor of the Parish Town or Place of or within which they shall be Church-wardens or Overséers of the Poor any former Statute to the contrary notwithstanding An Act intituled an Act for the true making and working of Woollen Cloth an Act intituled an Act to prevent Perjury and subornation of Perjury and unnecessary expence in Suits of Law And the several Acts made in the first year of the reign of the late King James after mentioned One Act intituled an Act for continuance and explanation of the Statute made in the nine and thirtieth year of the reign of the late Quéen Elizabeth intituled an Act for punishment of Rogues Vagabonds and sturdy Beggars another intituled an Act to take away the benefit of Clergy for some kind of Man-slaughter another intituled an Act concerning Tanners Curriers Shoo-makers and other Artificers occupying the cutting of Leather saving for such part thereof as is repealed by one other Act St. 4 Jac. 6. 1 Jac. 27. made in the fourth year of his said late Maiesties reign of England in that behalf Another intituled an Act for the better execution of the intent and meaning of former Statutes made against shooting in Guns and for the preservation of the Game of Pheasants and Partridges and against the destroying of Hares with Hare-pipes 1 Jac. 18. 1 Jac. 6. St. 5 El. 4 1 Jac. 31. and tracing Hares in the Snow an Act intituled an Act for avoiding of Deceit in Selling Buying or spending corrupt and unwholsome Hops an Act intituled an Act for explanation of the Statute made in the fifth year of the late Quéen Elizabeths reign concerning Labourers an Act for the charitable relief and ordering of persons infected with the Plague And the several Acts made in the third year of the Reign of the late King James after mentioned That is to say 3 Jac. 9. 3 Jac. 10. 3 Jac. 11. one Act intituled an Act for relief of such as lawfully use the Trade and Handy-craft of Skinners Another Act intituled an Act for rating and levying of the charges for conveying of Malefactors and Offendors to the Gaol Another Act for transporting of Béer over the Seas 3 Jac. 13. 4 Jac. 11. One other intituled an Act against unlawful hunting and stealing of Déer and Conies And one Act made in the fourth year of the reign of the said late King James intituled an Act for the better provision of Meadow and pasture for the necessary maintenance of Husbandry and Tillage in the Mannors 7 Jac. 1. Lordships and Parishes of Merden alias Mawarden Boddenham Wellington Sutton Saint Michael Sutton Saint Nicholas Murton upon Lugge and the Parish of Pipe 7 Jac. 4. 7 Jac. 12. and every of them in the County of Hereford And the several Acts made in the seventh year of the Reign of the late King James after mentioned the one intituled an Act for the better execution of Iustice and suppressing of criminal Offenders in the North parts of the Kingdome of England 7 Jac. 12. 7 Jac. 13. Another intituled an Act for the due execution of divers Laws and Statutes heretofore made against Rogues Vagabonds and sturdy Beggars and other lewd and idle persons St. 3 Jac. 23. 7 Jac. 18. Another intituled an Act to prevent the spoil of Corn and Grain by untimely hawking and for the better preservation of Pheasants and Partridges One other Intituled an Act to avoid the double payment of Debts One other Intituled An Act for the explanation of one Statute made in the second Session of that present Parliament intituled an Act against unlawful hunting of Déer and Conies And one other Act intituled an Act for the taking landing and carrying of Sea-sand for the bettering of grounds 25 H. 8. 11. and for the increase of Corn and Tillage within the Counties of Devon and Cornwall And that
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
the Land and if any thing be done to the contrary it shall be void in Law and holden for error And by another Statute made in the six and thirtieth year of the same King Edward the Third 36 E. 3. c. 15. It is amongst other things Enacted That all pleas which shall be pleaded in any Courts before any the Kings Iustices or in his other places or before any of his other Ministers or in the Courts and places of any other Lords within the Realm shall be entred and inrolled in Latine And whereas by the Statute made in the third year of King Henry the seventh 3 H. 7. cap. 1. power is given to the Chancellor the Lord Treasurer of England for the time being and the Kéeper of the Kings Privy Seal or two of them calling unto them a Bishop and a Temporal Lord of the Kings most Honourable Councel and the two Chief Iustices of the Kings Bench and Common Pleas for the time being or other two Iustices in their absence to procéed as in that Act is expressed for the punishmâ—â—â— of some particular offences therein mentioned And by the Statute made in the One and tâ—â—ntieth year of King Henry the Eighth 21 H. 8. cap. 20 The President of the Councel is associated to joyn with the Lord Chancellor and other Iudges in the said Statute of the third of Henry the seventh mentioned But the said Iudges have not kept themselves to the points limited by the said Statute but have undertaken to punish where no Law doth warrant and to make Decrées for things having no such Authority and to inflict heavier punishments then by any Law is warranted All matters â—â—â—minable in 〈◊〉 Star-Chamber maâ— be â—â—â—â—â—nable and 〈◊〉 â—â—o by the Common Law And forasmuch as all matters examinable or determinable before the said Iudges or in the Court commonly called the Star-Chamber may have their proper remedy and redress and their due punishment and correction by the Common Law of the Land and in the Ordinary course of Iustice elswhere and forasmuch as the reasons and motives inducing the erection and continuance of that Court do now cease and the procéedings Censures and Decrées of that Court have by experience been found to be an intolerable burthen to the Subject and the means to introduce an Arbitrary Power and Government And forasmuch as the Councel-Table hath of late times assumed unto it self a power to intermeddle in Civil causes and matters only of private interest betwéen party and party and have adventured to determine of the Estates and Liberties of the Subiect contrary to the Law of the Land and the Rights and Priviledges of the Subject by which great and manifold mischiefs and inconveniencies have arisen and happened and much incertainty by means of such procéedings hath béen conceived concerning Mens Rights and Estates For setling whereof and preventing the like in time to come Be it Ordained and Enacted by the Authority of this present Parliament Court of Star-Chamber and all its powers dissolved That the said Court commonly called the Star-Chamber and all Iurisdiction Power and Authority belonging unto or exercised in the same Court or by any the Iudges Officers or Ministers thereof be from the first day of August in the year of our Lord God One thousand six hundred forty and one clearly and absolutely dissolved taken away and determined and that from the said first day of August neither the Lord Chancellor or Kéeper of the Great Seal of England the Lord Treasurer of England the Kéeper of the Kings Privy-Seal or President of the Councel nor any Bishop Temporal Lord Privy-Councellor or Iudg or Iustice whatsoever shall have any power or authority to hear examine or determine any matter or thing whatsoever in the said Court commonly called the Star-Chamber or to make pronounce or deliver any Iudgment Sentence Order or Decrée or to do any Iudicial or Ministerial Act in the said Court And that all and every Act and Acts of Parliament and all and every Article clause and sentence in them and every of them by which any Iurisdiction power or Authority is given limited or appointed unto the said Court commonly called the Star-Chamber or unto all or any the Iudges Officers or Ministers thereof or for any procéedings to be had or made in the said Court or for any matter or thing to be drawn into question examined or determined there shall for so much as concerneth the said Court of Star-Chamber and the power and authority thereby given unto it be from the said first day of August repealed and absolutely revoked and made void And be it likewise Enacted Like Iurisdiction in several other Courts repealed and taken away That the like Iurisdiction now used and exercised in the Court before the President and Councel in the Marches of Wales and also in the Court before the President and Councel established in the Northern parts And also in the Court commonly called the Court of the Dutchy of Lancaster held before the Chancellor and Councel of that Court And also in the Court of Exchequer of the County Palatine of Chester held before the Chamberlain and Councel of that Court The like Iurisdiction being exercised there shall from the said first day of August One thousand six hundred forty and one be also repealed and absolutely revoked and made void any Law prescription custome or usage Or the said Statute made in the third year of King Henry the seventh Or the Statute made the One and twentieth of Henry the Eigth Or any Act or Acts of Parliament heretofore had or made to the contrary thereof in any wise notwithstanding And that from henceforth no Court Councel No Court or Councel to have the like Iurisdiction or place of Iudicature shall be erected ordained constituted or appointed within this Realm of England or Dominion of Wales which shall have use or exercise the same or the like Iurisdiction as is or hath béen used practised or exercised in the said Court of Star-Chamber Be it likewise declared and Enacted by Authority of this present Parliament The King nor his privy Councel shall have no Iurisdiction over any mans estate That neither his Majesty nor his Privy-Councel have or ought to have any Iurisdiction power or authority by English Bill Petition Articles Libel or any other Arbitrary way whatsoever to examine or draw into question determine or dispose of the Lands Tenements Hereditaments Goods or Chattels of any the Subjects of this Kingdome But that the same ought to be tryed and determined in the ordinary Courts of Iustice and by the ordinary course of the Law And be it further provided and Enacted That if any Lord Chancellor Penalties upon great Officers and others for the first offence or Kéeper of the Great Seal of England Lord Treasurer Kéeper of the Kings Privy Seal President of the Councel Bishop Temporal Lord Privy Councellor Iudg or Iustice whatsoever shall offend or do
time wherein the said offence shall be committed CAP. XI A Repeal of the Branch of a Statute primo Elizabethae concerning Commissioners for Causes Ecclesiastical VVHereas in the Parliament holden in the first year of the reign of the late Quéen Elizabeth late Quéen of England there was an Act made and established Intituled An Act restoring to the Crown the antient Jurisdiction over the State Ecclesiastical and Spiritual St. 1 Eliz. 2 and abolishing all Forreign Power repugnant to the same In which Act amongst other things there is contained one Clause Branch Article or Sentence whereby it was Enacted to this effect Namely That the said late Quéens Highness her Heirs and Successors Kings or Quéens of this Realm should have full power and authority by vertue of that Act by Letters Patent under the Great Seal of England to assign name and authorite when and as often as her Highness her Heirs or Successors should think méet and convenient and for such and so long time as should please her Highness her Heirs or Successors such person or persons being natural born Subjects to her Highness her Heirs or Successors as her Majesty her Heirs or Successors should think méet to exercise use occupy and execute under her Highness her Heirs and Successors all manner of Iurisdictions Priviledges and preheminence in any wise touching or concerning any Spiritual or Ecclesiastical Iurisdiction within these her Realms of England and Ireland or any other her Highnesse Dominions and Countries and to visit reform redresse order correct and amend all such errors heresies schismes abuses offences contempts and enormities whatsoever which by any manner Spiritual or Ecclesiastical power Authority or Iurisdiction can or may lawfully be reformed ordered redressed corrected restrained or amended to the pleasure of Almighty God the increase of vertue and the conservation of the Peace and Vnity of this Realm And that such person or persons so to be named assigned authorized and appointed by her Highness her Heirs or Successors after the said Letters Patents to him or them made and delivered as aforesaid should have full power and Authority by vertue of that Act and of the said Letters Patents under her Highness her Heirs or Successors to exercise use and execute all the Premisses according to the tenor and effect of the said Letters Patents any matter or cause to the contrary in any wise notwithstanding And whereas by colour of some words in the aforesaid Branch of the said Act High Commission Court whereby Commissioners are Authorized to execute their Commission according to the tenor and effect of the Kings Letters Patents and by Letters Patents grounded thereupon the said Commissioners have to the great and insufferable wrong and oppression of the Kings Subjects used to fine and imprison them and to exercise other Authority not belonging to Ecclesiastical Iurisdiction restored by that Act and divers other great mischiefs and inconveniences have also ensued to the Kings Subjects by occasion of the said Branch and Commissions issued thereupon and the executions thereof Therefore for the repressing and preventing of the aforesaid abuses mischiefs and inconveniencies in time to come Be it Enacted by the Kings most Excellent Majesty The said branch of the stat 1 El. c. 2. repealed and the Lords and Commons in this present Parliament Assembled and by the Authority of the same That the foresaid Branch Clause Article or Sentence contained in the said Act and every word matter and thing contained in that Branch Clause Article or Sentence shall from henceforth be repealed annulled revoked annihilated and utterly made void for ever any thing in the said Act to the contrary in any wise notwithstanding Rep. St. 13 Car. 1. cap. 11. And be it also Enacted by the Authority aforesaid that no Archbishop Bishop Power taken away from Archbishops Bishops and other Ecclesiastical persons and Courts Exp. St. 13. Car. 2. c. 12. nor Vicar-General nor any Chancellor Official nor Commissary of any Arch-bishop Bishop or Vicar-General nor any Ordinary whatsoever nor any other Spiritual or Ecclesiastical Iudg Officer or Minister of Iustice nor any other person or persons whatsoever exercising Spiritual or Eccesiastical Power Authority or Iurisdiction by any Grant License or Commission of the Kings Majesty his Heirs or Successors or by any power or authority derived from the King his Heirs or Successors or otherwise shall from and after the first day of August which shall be in the year of our Lord God one thousand six hundred forty and one award impose or inflict any pain penalty fine amerciament imprisonment or other corporal punishment upon any of the Kings Subjects for any contempt misdemeanor crime offence matter or thing whatsoever belonging to Spiritual or Ecclesiastical cognizance or Iurisdiction Oath ex officio St. 13 Car. 2. cap. 12. or shall ex officio or at the instance or promotion of any other person whatsoever urge enforce tender give or minister unto any Churchwarwarden Sydeman or other person whatsoever any corporal Oath whereby he or she shall or may be charged or obliged to make any presentment of any crime or offence or to confess or to accuse himself or her self of any crime offence delinquency or misdemeanor or any neglect matter or thing whereby or by reason whereof he or she shall or may be lyable or exposed to any censure pain penalty or punishment whatsoever upon pain and penalty that every person who shall offend contrary to this Statute Penalty treble damages and one hundred pounds shall forfeit and pay treble damages to every person thereby grieved and the sum of One hundred pounds to him or them who shall first demand and sue for the same which said Treble damages and sum of One hundred pounds shall and may be demanded and recovered by Action of Debt Bill or Plaint in any Court of Record wherein no priviledg Offendors convicted disabled from any office or imployment by the Kings Letters Patents Essoin protection or wager of Law shall be admitted or allowed to the Defendant And be it further Enacted That every person who shall be once convicted of any act or offence prohibited by this Statute shall for such act or offence be from and after such conviction utterly disabled to be or continue in any office or imployment in any Court of Iustice whatsoever or to exercise or execute any power authority or jurisdiction by force of any Commission or Letters Patents of the King his Heirs or Successors And be it further Enacted That from and after the said first day of August No new Court to be erected with the like power no new Court shall be erected ordained or appointed within this Realm of England or Dominion of Wales which shall or may have the like power jurisdiction or Authority as the said High Commission Court now hath or pretendeth to have But that all and every such Letters Patents Commissions and Grants made or to be made by his
Majesty his Heirs or Successors And all Powers and Authorities Granted or pretended or mentioned to be Granted thereby and all Acts Sentences and Decrées to be made by vertue or colour thereof shall be utterly void and of none effect CAP. XII A Subsidy Granted to the King of Tunnage and Poundage Tunnage and Poundage and other sums of Money payable upon Merchandize Exported and Imported from the 15th of July 1641. to the 10th of August next EXP. CAP. XIII Such Monies secured as are or shall be due to the Inhabitants of the County of York and the other adjoyning Counties for the Billet of the Souldiers and to certain Officers of the Army who forbear part of their pay according to an Order in that behalf made in the Commons House of Parliament this present Session for such part of their pay as they shall so forbear EXP. CAP. XIV The late Preceedings touching Ship-money declared unlawful and all Records and Process concerning the same made void Shipâ—rits VVHereas divers Writs of late time issued under the Great Seal of England commonly called Ship-Writs for the charging of the Ports Towns Cities Burroughs and Counties of this Realm respectively Certioraries to provide and furnish certain Ships for his Majesties service Mittimus And whereas upon the Execution of the same Writs and Returns of Certioraries thereupon made and the sending the same by Mittimus into the Court of Exchequer Process hath béen thence made against sundry persons pretended to be charged by way of Contribution for the making up of certain sums assessed for the providing of the said Ships and in especial in Easter Term Scire facias against John Hampden Esquire Demurrer in the thirtéenth year of the Reign of our Soveraign Lord the King that now is a Writ of Scire facias was awarded out of the Court of Exchequer to the then Sheriff of Buckingham-Shire against John Hampden Esquire to appear and shew cause why he should not be charged with a certain sum so assessed upon him upon whose appearance and demurrer to the procéedings therein the Barons of the Exchequer adjourned the same case into the Exchequer-Chamber where it was solemnly argued divers dayes and at length it was there agréed by the greater part of all the Iustices of the Courts of Kings Bench and Common Pleas and of the Barons of the Exchequer there assembled That the said John Hampden should be charged with the said sum so as aforesaid assessed on him The main grounds and reasons of the said Iustices and Barons which so agréed being that when the good and safety of the Kingdom in general is concerned and the whole Kingdom in danger the King might by Writ under the Great Seal of England command all the Subjects of this His Kingdome at their charge to provide and furnish such manner of Ships with Men Victuals and Munition and for such time as the King should think fit for the defence and safeguard of the Kingdom from such danger and peril and that by Law the King might compel the doing thereof in case of refusal or refractorinses and that the King is the sole Iudg both of the danger and when and how the same is to be prevented and avoided according to which grounds and reasons all the Iustices of the said Courts of Kings Bench and Common Pleas and the said Barons of the Exchequer having béen formerly consulted with by his Maiesties command Extrajudicial Opinion had set their hands to an extraiudicial opinion expressed to the same purpose which Opinion with their names thereunto was also by his Majesties command inrolled in the Courts of Chancery Kings Bench Common Pleas and Exchequer and likewise entred among the Remembrances of the Court of Star-Chamber Iudgment and according to the said agréement of the said Iustices and Barons Iudgment was given by the Barons of the Exchequer That the said John Hampden should be charged with the said sum so assessed on him And whereas some other Actions and Proces depend and have depended in the said Court of Exchequer and in some other Courts against other persons for the like kind of charge grounded upon the said Writs commonly called Shipwrits all which Writs and procéedings as aforesaid were utterly against the Law of the Land Shipmoney proceedings thereupon contrary to Law Be it therefore declared and Enacted by the Kings most excellent Majesty and the Lords and Commons in this present Parliament assembled and by the Authority of the same That the said charge imposed upon the Subject for the providing and furnishing of Ships commonly called Ship-money and the said extrajudicial opinion of the said Iustices and Barons and the said Writs and every of them and the said agréement or opinion of the greater part of the said Iustices and Barons and the said judgment given against the said John Hampden were and are contrary to and against the Laws and Statutes of this Realm the right of property the liberty of the Subjects former resolutions in Parliament and the Petition of Right made in the third year of the Reign of his Maiesty that now is St. 3 Car. 1. Petition of right to be observed And it is further declared and Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That all and every the particulars prayed or desired in the said Petition of Right shall from henceforth be put in execution accordingly and shall be firmly and strictly holden and observed as in the same Petition they are prayed and expressed and that all and every the Records and remembrances of all and every the Iudgment Iudgments proceedings touching ship-money and all entries records inrolments thereof made void Inrolments Entry and procéedings as aforesaid and all and every the procéedings whatsoever upon or by pretext or colour of any of the said Writs commonly called Ship-Writs and all and every the Dependents on any of them shall be Déemed and Adiudged to all intents constructions and purposes to be utterly void and disannulled and that all and every the said Iudgment Inrolments Entries Procéedings and Dependents of what kind soever shall be vacated and cancelled in such manner and forme as Records use to be that are vacated CAP. XV. Touching Incroachments and Oppressions in the Stannary Courts WHereas King EDWARD the first of famous memory did for the Amendment of the Stannaries in the County of Devon E. 1. Charter grant divers Franchises and Liberties to the Tinners there And whereas in the Parliament in the fiftieth year of King EDWARD the third upon the petition of the Commons of the County of Devon certain Branches and Articles of the said Charter were explained in manner following That is to say whereas one Article of the said Charter is in these words following Explained 50 E. 3. viz. Sciatis nos ad emendationem Stannariarum nostrarum in Com. Devon ad tranquilitatem utilitatem Stannatorum nostrorum praedictorum earundem Concessisse pro nobis haeredibus
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
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
St. 13. Car. 2. cap. 3. An Act to restrain all persons from Marriage until their former Wives and former Husbands be dead And also except all Offences of Invocations Conjurations Witchcrafts Sorceries Inchantments and Charms and all Offences of procuring abetting or comforting of the same and all persons now attainted or convicted of any of the said excepted Offences And also excepted all and singular the accompts of all and every person and persons appointed by any of the Authorities or pretended Authorities aforesaid to be Treasurer Receiver Fermor or Collector other then the Sub-collectors of the several Parishes Towns and Hamlets respectively for and concerning their Receipts before the four and twentieth day of Iune in the year of our Lord one thousand six hundred fifty nine who have received or collected any Subsidy Custom Subsidy of Tonnage and Poundage Prize-Goods Assessments Sequestration New Impost or Excise or of any the Rents and Revenues of any Lands or Hereditaments of or belonging unto the late King Quéen or Prince or King that now is or belonging unto the late Arch-Bishopricks Bishopricks Deans or Deans and Chapters Canons Prebends and other Officers belonging to any Cathedral or Collegiate Church or Popish Recusants convict or of persons Sequestred for their Recusancy or other Sequestred Estates received or collected by or paid unto them since the thirtieth of January in the year of our Lord One thousand six hundred fourty two and of all Monies and other Duties grown due or contracted upon the Sale or Disposition of them or any of them Proviso for the Heirs and Lands of Accomptants excepted Provided That the Heirs Executors Administrators or Ter-tenants of the Lands of any Accomptant within this Exception now deceased shall not be charged with nor lyable unto any accompt for the matters in this Exception mentioned Except for such sum or sums of Money as remain due upon any of their accompts already Stated and Determined and are not yet paid in and that no Accomptant as abovesaid now living shall be liable to make accompt of any sum or sums of Money paid or disbursed or otherwise allowed or discharged by vertue or colour of any Order or Ordinance of both or either House or Houses of Parliament or any Convention or Assembly called or Reputed or taking on them the name of a Parliament or of Oliver Cromwel pretended Protector or of Richard his Son while he continued or was stiled or obeyed as Protector or by any persons acting as a Committée appointed by the said two Houses or either of them or by any such Convention or Assembly or any Order or Direction of such Committée or Committées or any person or persons acting as a publick Council though having no legal authority so to do or by their or any their Order or Orders or Direction Fees and Salaries c. not to be accompted for It being further Declared and Enacted And it is Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That no person or persons shall be charged for any Moneys by him received for the Fées Salaries and Wages then allowed or for Moneys by him disbursed upon any publick use or pretence though the Direction or Authority whereby the same Money was issued was not or be not Legal and Warrantable in Law Military payments not to be accompted for And be it further provided That no Military or commissioned Officer of the Armies or Navies or Souldier or Marriner who before the twenty fifth of March one thousand six hundred fifty nine hath received any Moneys for his own pay or the pay of other Souldiers or for any other Contingencies of the Souldiers or Garrisons under his command or by way of reward shall be called to accompt therefore No person to be called to an accompt after the 24 of Iune 1662. And that no person whatsoever shall be called to accompt for any the matters in this Exception mentioned after the four and twentieth day of Iune which shall be in the year of our Lord God one thousand six hundred sixty and two next ensuing And that in case any person who stands accomptable for any Moneys received since the first of Ianuary one thousand six hundred forty two and before the thirtieth of Ianuary one thousand six hundred forty eight have béen-robb'd or plundered by Souldiers or others of the Moneys in their hands or any Notes or Books of Receipt or Acquitances touching their payments or discharge Then the Oath or Oaths of such party or parties of the same respectively shall be a good discharge for so much of their accompt And that the Oath of every Accomptant in or betwéen the years one thousand six hundred forty two and one thousand six hundred forty eight of what they have paid to any publick use by or according to any publick or pretended Order or Authority whatsoever shall be a good discharge as to so much of the accompt of such person or persons And except all First-fruits and Tenths in the hands of any Receiver not having disbursed Discharges and quietus est given in the Exchequer Accompts of the Revenues of Churches in Wales Bribery Subornation Forging Debentures c. Witnesses as in the last Exception is expressed Provided That all and every Iudgment of Discharge or Quietus est had or given at any time upon any accompt in the publick Exchequer since the year One thousand six hundred forty eight be allowed and shall not be avoided except all accompts of the Revenues of Churches and Vicaridges in Wales and the County of Monmouth and all Iudgments of Discharge or Quietus thereupon obtained And also Excepted out of this Pardon all offences of Bribery Perjuries and the Subornation of Perjury or Witnesses and Offences of Forging or Counterfeiting any Déeds Debentures Bills of publick Faith Escripts Wills or other Writings whatsoever or of any Examinations or Testimonies of any Witness or Witnesses tending to bring any person or persons in danger of his Life Liberty or Estate and the giving the same in evidence and the compelling or procuring of any such counterfeiting or forging to be had or made Imbezeling and purloyning the Kings goods And also excepted all offences in detaining imbezeling or purloining any the Goods Money Chattels or Iewels of the late King Quéen or Prince or any of the Children of the late King and Quéen other then Shipping Stores and Ammunitions of War and other then such Goods and Chattels as have béen sold or disposed of to any of the Servants or Creditors of his late Majesty in or toward satisfaction of their debts or wages Issues fines and amerciaments Received by Sheriffs And also excepted out of this pardon all Issues Fines and Amerciaments Rents and other publick Duties being Levied Received or Collected by any Sheriff Vnder-Sheriff Bayliff Minister or other Officer to or for the use of the late King the Parliament or the said Kéepers of the Liberty of England or any other person stiling himself Protector or for
his Majesty that now is and not accompted for and discharged Iesuites Seminary and Romish Priests excepted And also excepted out of this Pardon all and every offence and offences committed or done by any Iesuit Seminary or Romish Priest whatsoever contrary to the Tenor or effect of the Statute made in the Seven and twentieth year of the Reign of the late Quéen Elizabeth Entituled An Act against Jesuits Seminaries Priests and other disobedient persons or of any part thereof and all out-lawries procéedings Iudgments and executions for the same offences or any of them Provided alwayes and be it Enacted by the authority aforesaid Writs of Cap. Utlagat may be diâ—â—â—ed against any person That it shall and may be lawfull to and for all and every Clerk and other Officer of the Courts at Westminster to award and make Writs of Capias Utlagatum at the suit of the party plaintiff against such persons out-lawed as be pardoned by this Act to the intent to compel the Defendant or Defendants to make answer to the plaintiff or plaintiffs at whose suit he or they were outlawed And that every person so out-lawed The party out-lawed may sue one a scire fac as against the Plaintiff shal sue a Writ of Scire facias against the party or parties at whose Suit he or they were so out-lawed before this pardon in that behalf shall be allowed him or them so out-lawed Provided and be it Enacted by the authority aforesaid That this Act of general pardon shall not in any wise extend to pardon any Out-lawries upon any Writ of Capias ad Satisfaciendum untill such time as the party so out-lawed shall satisfie Persons out-lawed upon capias ad satisfaciendum c. or otherwise agrée with the party at whose suit the same person was so out-lawed or condemned And also excepted out of this pardon all informations and other procéedings depending concerning any common Highwayes or Bridges and all issues returned upon any process concerning the same since the Thirtieth day of January Informations and proceedings concerning high-waies c excepted One thousand six hundred forty eight Except also all Recognizances Obligations and other securities given or entred into Since the five and twentieth of March One thousand six hundred and forty by any Receiver Réeve Bayliffe Collector or other accountant in the Court of the publick Exchequer and their sureties and their acounts respectively Provided alwayes and be it Enacted that this Act or any thing therein Contained Obligation and recognizance not yet forfeited shall not extend or be construed to Pardon or discharge any Recognizance Obligation or Bond which is not yet forfeited And be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That all Acts of Hostility and Injuries All acts of hostility injuries c. between the King and his Parliament to be put in perpetual oblivion whether betwéen the late King and the Lords and Commons then in Parliament assembled or betwéen any of the People of this Nation which did arise upon any Action Attempt Assistance Counsell or Advice having Relation unto or falling out by reason of the troubles or in the late Wars or publick differences betwéen the late King and Parliament or betwéen His now Majesty or any of Subjects and which are not in this Act excepted That the same and whatsoever hath ensued thereupon whether trenching upon the Laws and Liberties of this Nation or upon the Honor of His Majesty or upon the Honor or Authority of the Parliament or to the prejudice of any particular or private Person shall in no time from and after the four and twentieth day of June in the year of our Lord one thousand six hundred and sixty be called in question whatsoever be the quality of the person or of whatsoever kind or Degrée Civil or Criminal the Inâ—ury is supposed to be And that no mention be made thereof in time to come in Iudgment or in Iudicial procéedings And to the intent and purpose that all names and terms of Distinction may be likewise put into utter Oblivion Be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid The penalty upon any person that shall within 3. years use any words of reproach or disgrace tending to revive the memory of the late differences That if any person or Persons within the space of Thrée years next ensuing shall presume maliciously to call or alledge of or object against any other person or persons any Name or Names or other Words of Reproach any way tending to revive the Memory of the late Differences or the Occasions thereof That then every such person so as aforesaid Offending shall forfeit and pay unto the party grieved in case such party Offending shall be of the Degrée of a Gentleman or above Ten pounds and if under that Degrée The sum of forty shillings to be recovered by the party grieved by Action of Debt to be therefore brought in any of His Majesties Courts of Record wherein no Essoin protection or Wager of Law shall be allowed or any more then one Imparlance so as the same Action be commenced or prosecuted within six Moneths next after the Offence Committed And if the Iury sworn to try any Issue or Issues that shall be joyned in such Action shall find for the plaintiff they shall likewise give to every such Plaintiff Forty shillings Damages over and above the penalty aforesaid Provided alwayes that this Act or any thing therein contained shall not Extend Persons plotting or signing the Irish Rebellion excepted or give any benefit unto any person or persons who have had any hand in the Plotting Contriving or designing the great and heinous Rebellion in Ireland mentioned in one Act passed in the Parliament begun at Westminster the third day of November in the sixtéenth year of King Charles entituled An Act for the speedy and effectual Reducing of the Rebels in His Majesties Kingdom of Ireland to their due obedience to His Majesty and Crown of England Or in Aiding Assisting or Abetting the same Other then such as by another Act intended hereafter to be passed shall be therein Named mentioned or Expressed to be pardoned nor to Enure to Restore to any person or persons bodies politick or corporate other then the Marquess of Ormond Lord Steward of his Majesties Houshold and other the Protestants of Ireland and their Heirs and such other person and persons as in and by an Act intended hereafter to be passed shall be therein Named Mentioned or Expressed in that behalf any Estate Liberties Franchises or Hereditaments in England or Ireland sold or disposed of by both or either Houses of Parliament or any Convention assuming the Stile or Name of a Parliament or any person or persons deriving authority from them or any of them or which was approved or confirmed by them or any of them Nor to the Mean Profits Rents or Contingencies of advantage of the same Every person pardoned may plead the general Issue
them who being disguised by Frocks and Vizors did appear upon the Scaffold erected before Whitehal upon the thirtieth of Ianuary one thousand six hundred forty and eight All which persons for their execrable Treason in sentencing to death or signing the Instrument for the horrid Murder or being instrumental in taking away the precious Life of our late Sovereign Lord Charles the first of Glorious Memory are left to be procéeded against as Traytors to His late Majesty according to the Laws of England and are out of this present Act wholly excepted and foreprized But ingard the said Owen Row Augustine Garland Edmond Harvey Henry Smith Persons that appeared and rendred themselves Henry Martin Sir Hardress Waller Robert Titchbourn George Fleetwood James Temple Thomas Wait Simon Meyn William Heveningham Isaac Penington Peter Temple Robert Lilburn Gilbert Millington Vincent Potter Thomas Wogan and John Downs have personally appeared and rendred themselves according to the Proclamation bearing Date the sixth day of Iune one thousand six hundred and sixty to Summon the persons therein named who gave Iudgement and Assisted in the said Horrid and Detestable Murther of our said late Sovereign to appear and render themselves and do pretend thereby to some favour upon some conceived doubtful Words in the said Proclamation Be it Enacted by this present Parliament and the Authority of the same upon the humble desires of the Lord and Commons in Parliament assembled That if the said Owen Row Augustine Garland Edmond Harvey Henry Smith Henry Martin Sir Hardress Waller Robert Titchburn George Fleetwood James Temple Tho. Wait Simon Meyn William Heveningham Isaac Penington Peter Temple Robert Lilburn Gilbert Millington Vincent Potter Thomas Wogan and John Downs or any of them shall be legally Attainted for the Horrid Treason and Murther aforesaid That then nevertheless the Execution of the said person and persons so Attainted shall be supended until his Majesty by the Advice and Assent of the Lords and Commons in Parliament shall order the Execution by Act of Parliament to be passed for that purpose Except also out of this present Act Oliver Cromwel deceased Henry Ireton deceased John Bradshaw deceased and Thomas Pride deceased Provided That nothing in this Act contained shall extend to discharge the Lands Tenements The Lands and Goods of the persons rendring themselves not excepted St. 13 Car. 2. ca. 15. Goods Chattels Rights Trusts and other the Hereditaments late of the said O. Cromwel Henry Ireton John Bradshaw and Thomas Pride or of Isaac Ewer deceased Sir John Danvers deceased Sir Thomas Maleverer Baronet deceased William Purefoy deceased John Blackiston deceased Sir William Constable Baronet deceased Richard Dean deceased Francis Allen deceased Peregrin Pelham deceased John Moor deceased John Aldred alias Alured deceased Humphry Edwards deceased Sir Gregory Norton Baronet deceased John Venn deceased Thomas Andrews Alderman deceased Anthony Stapely deceased Thomas Horton deceased John Fry deceased Thomas Hamond deceased Sir John Bourchier deceased of and from such pains penalties and forfeitures as by one other Act of Parliament intended to be hereafter passed for that purpose shall be expressed and declared And also excepted out of this present Act William Lord Mounson James Challoner Persons excepted for other penalties not extending to life St. 13. Car. 2. ca. 15. Sir Henry Mildmay Sir James Harrington John Phelps and Robert Wallop All which persons did Act and sit in that Trayterous Assembly which in the moneth of Ianuary one thousand six hundred forty eight Acted and procéeded against the Life of our late Sovereign King Charles the first of blessed Memory and are therefore reserved to such pains penalties and forfeitures not extending to Life as by another Act intended to be passed for that purpose shall be imposed on them And also except Sir Arthur Hesilrig for and in respect onely of such pains penalties and forfeitures not extending to Life as by one Act intended to be hereafter passed for that purpose shall be inflicted and imposed Provided alwayes That John Hutchinson Esquire and Francis Lassels Persons made incapable of any Offices shall be and are hereby made for ever incapable to Execute any Place or Office of Trust Civil or Military within this Kingdom And that the said Francis Lassels shall pay unto our Sovereign Lord the King one full years value of his Estate Any thing herein before contained to the contrary notwithstanding Provided alwayes That this Act or any thing therein contained Sir Henry Vane Iohn Lambert excepted shall not extend to the pardoning or to give any other benefit whatsoever unto Sir Henry Vane John Lambert or either of them but that they and either of them are and shall be out of this present Act wholly excepted and foreprized Penalty of certain persons if they shall after the first of September 1660. accept any Office Provided That if William Lenthal William Burton Oliver Saint-John John Ireton Alderman Colonel William Sydenham Colonel John Desborow John Blackwel of Moreclake Christopher Pack Alderman Richard Keeble Charles Fleewood John Pyne Richard Dean Major Richard Creed Philip Nye Clerk John Goodwyn Clerk Sir Gilbert Pickering Colonel Thomas Lister and Colonel Ralph Cobbet shall after the first day of September one thousand six hundred and sixty accept or exercise any Office Ecclesiastical Civil or Military or any other publique employment within this Kingdom of England Dominion of Wales or Town of Berwick upon Tweed that then such person or persons as do so accept or execute as aforesaid shall to all intents and purposes in Law stand as if he or they had béen totally excepted by name in this Act. Persons that gave Sentence upon any in the illegal High Courts of Iustice Provided likewise That all those who since the fifth of December one thousand six hundred forty eight did give sentence of death upon any person or persons in any of the late Illegal and Tyrannical High Courts of Iustice in England or Wales or Signed the Warrant for Execution of any person there Condemned except Colonel Richard Ingolsby and Colonel Matthew Thomlinson shall be and are hereby made incapable of bearing any Office Ecclesiastical Civil or Military within the Kingdom of England or Dominion of Wales or of serving as a Member in any Parliament after the first day of September one thousand six hundred and sixty Provided also and it is Enacted That all and every the persons appointed Trustées in a late pretended Act or Ordinance made in the year of our Lord Persons intrusted by Ordinance 1649. about Tithes shall be accomptable one thousand six hundred forty nine for and concerning Tithes appropriate Oblations Obventions Pensions Portions of Tithes appropriate Offerings Fée-farm Rents issuing out of the Tithes therein mentioned First-fruits and other things and Enacted or mentioned to be Enacted to be vested setled adjudged or déemed to be in the actual sesin or possession of such person and persons in the said pretended Act or Ordinance mentioned
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
and other his Lieges of this Realm conducted his Majesty unto His Royal Cities of London and Westminster with all possible Expressions of their Ioy and Loyal Affections in far greater Triumph than any of his most Victorious Predecessors Kings of England returned thither from their Forreign Conquest and both his Majesties Houses of Parliament with all Dutiful and Ioyful Demonstrations of their Allegiance publickly received and cordially congratulated His Majesties most happy Arrival and Investiture in his Royal Throne at his Palace at White-Hall Vpon all which considerations this being the Day which the Lord himself hath made and crowned with so many publick Blessings and signal Deliverances both of his Majesty and his People The intent of keeping the said Day from all their late most deplorable Confusions Divisions Wars Devastations and Oppressions to the end that it may be kept in perpetual Remembrance in all Ages to come and that his Sacred Majesty will with all his Subjects of this Realm and the Dominions thereof and their posterities after them might annually celebrate the perpetual memory thereof by sacrificing their unfeigned hearty publick Thanks thereon to Almighty God with one heart and voice in a most devout and Christian manner for all these publick benefits received and conferred on them upon this most joyful Day Be it therefore Enacted by the Kings most Excellent Majesty the Lords and Commons in this present Parliament assembled and by the Authority of the same That all and singular Ministers of Gods Word and Sacraments in every Church Chappel and other usual place of Divine Service and publick Prayer which now are or hereafter shall be within this Realm of England and the respective Dominions thereof and their Successors shall in all succéeding Ages annually celebrate the Twenty Ninth day of May The 29th of May to be annually celebrated by rendring their hearty publick Praises and Thanksgivings unto Almighty God for all the forementioned Extraordinary Mercies Blessings and Deliverances received and mighty Acts done thereon and Declare the same to all the people there assembled and the Generations yet to come that so they may for ever praise the Lord for the same whose Name alone is Excellent and his Glory above the Earth and Heavens And be it further Enacted All persons to resort to some Church Chappel or publique Place of Thanksgiving the said day That all and every person and persons inhabiting within this Kingdom and the Dominions thereunto belonging shall upon the said day annually resort with diligence and devotion to some usuall Church Chappel or Place where such publick Thanksgivings and Praises to Gods most Divine Majesty shall be rendred and there orderly and devoutly abide during the said publick Thanksgivings Prayers Preaching Singing of Psalmes and other Service of God there to be used and ministred And to the end that all persons may be put in mind of their duty thereon and be the better prepared to discharge the same with that piety and devotion as becomes them Be it further Enacted Notice of this Act to be given the next Lords Day before That every Minister shall give notice to his Parishioners publickly in the Church at morning Prayer the Lords Day next before every such Twenty Ninth day of May for the due observation of the said day And shall then likewise publickly and distinctly read this present Act to the people St. 13 Car. 2. cap. 11. CAP. XV. An Act for the speedy Disbanding of the Army and Garrisons of this Kingdom with Instructions for the same EXP. CAP. XVI Souldiers of the Army Disbanded may Exercise Trades WHereas there are divers Officers and Souldiers now in the Kings Majesties Service Souldiers instrumental in His Majesties Restauration under the Command of his Excellency George Duke of Albemarle Captain General of His Majesties Armies who have béen Instrumental by the Blessing of Almighty God to the Happy Restitution and Restoration of his Sacred Majesty unto His Kingdomes and People and to His Iust Right of Government in the Kingdom of England and the Dominions and Territories thereunto belonging some of which are men that used Trades others that were Apprentices to Trades who had not served out their Times and others who are Apt and Fit for Trades many of which the Wars being now ended would willingly Imploy themselves in those Trades they were formerly accustomed unto or which they are apt and able to follow and make use of for the getting of their Living by their Labour and Industry but are or may be hindred from exercising those Trades in certain Cities Corporations and other places within this Kingdom because of certain by-Lawes and Customs of those places and of a Statute made in the Fifth year of the late Quéen Elizabeth Prohibiting the use of certain Trades by any person that hath not served as an Apprentice to such Trade by the space of seven years Such as were in Service under General Monk 25. April 1660. and instrumental in his Majesties restitution may exercise Trades For remedy whereof And to the end that those persons who were in Actual Service under the Command of the said Captain General on the Five and twentieth day of April in the year of our Lord One thousand six hundred and sixty and were Instrumental to the Happy Restitution of the Kings Majestie unto his Iust Right of Government as aforesaid may not be deprived of a Means of Livelyhood May it please your Majesty that it may be Enacted and be it Enacted by the Kings most Excellent Majesty and the Lords and Commons in this present Parliament assembled and by the Authority thereof That all such Officers and Souldiers who were under the Command of the said Captain General on the Five and twentieth day of April Such as have deserted the Service or refuse the Oath of Allegiance excepted in the said year of our Lord One thousand six hundred and sixty and have not since deserted the Service or refused to take the several Oaths of Supremacy and Allegiance unto the Kings Majesty that now is his Heirs and Successors and that have heretofore used or exercised any Trade though they did not serve out the time of their Apprentiship or any other person imployed as aforesaid under the Command of the said Captain General at the time aforesaid that is apt and able to practise any Trade may set up and exercise such several and respective Trades Mysteries or occupations whereunto he or they have béen bound Apprentice and served any Part of his or their time or any Handicraft or other Trade exercised about Manufactures though he was never bound Apprentice to the same Apprentices to enjoy all Immunities as it they had served their Time in manner following that is to say Such of them as have béen Apprentices as aforesaid may set up and exercise such several and respective Trades whereunto he or they have béen so bound Apprentices as fully as if they had served out their
Protection or Wager of Law shall be allowed And be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That for every Ship or Vessel which from and after the Five and twentieth day of December Ships of England Ireland or Wales Sailing to any English plantation of America Asia or Africa shall be bound with sureties to bring goods there loaded into England c. in the year of our Lord one thousand six hundred and fifty shall set sail out of or from England Ireland Wales or Town of Berwick upon Tweed for any English Plantation in America Asia or Africa sufficient bond shall be given with one surety to the chief Officers of the Custom-house of such Port or place from whence the said Ship shall set sail to the value of one thousand pounds if the ship be of less burthen then one hundred Tuns and of the sum of two thousand pounds if the Ship shall be of greater burthen That in case the said ship or vessel shal load any of the said Commodities at any of the said English plantations that the same Commodities shall be by the said ship brought to some Port of England Ireland Wales or to the Port or Town of Berwick upon Tweed and shall there unload and put on shore the same the danger of the Seas only excepted And for all ships coming from any other Port or Place to any of the aforesaid plantations who by this Act are permitted to trade there that the Governor of such English plantations shall before the said ship or Vessel be permitted to load on board any of the said Commodities take Bond in manner and to the value aforesaid for each respective Ship or Vessel That such Ship or Vessel shall carry all the aforesaid Goods that be laden on board in the said ship to some other of His Majesties English Plantations or to England Ships coming from other places to any of those plantations Ireland Wales or Town of Berwick upon Tweed And that every ship or Vessel which shall load or take on board any of the aforesaid Goods untill such Bond given to the said Governor or Certificate produced from the Officers of any Custom-house of England Ireland Wales or of the Town of Berwick that such bonds have béen there â—â—ly given shall be forefeited with all her Guns Tackle Apparel and Furniture to be imployed and recovered in the manner as aforesaid And the said Governors and every of them shall twice in every year after the First day of January The respective Governors to return the bonds taken twice yearly to the chief offices of the custom in London One thousand six hundred and sixty return true Copies of all such Bonds by him so taken to the chief Officers of the Customs in London St. 13. Car. 2. cap. 14. CAP. XIX For preventing Frauds and concealments of Customs and Subsidies 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 That if any person or persons at any time after the first day of September One thousand six hundred and sixty Persons which shall convey away any goods without entry agreement for the custome shall cause any Goods for which Custom Subsidy or other Duties are due or payable by vertue of the Act passed this Parliament Entituled A Subsidy Granted to the King of Tunnage and Poundage and other sums of money payable upon Merchandize Exported and Imported to be landed or conveyed away without due entry thereof first made and the Customer or Collector or his Deputy agréed with That then and in such case upon Oath thereof made before the Lord Treasurer or any of the Barons of the Exchequer or chief Magistrate of the Port or place where the offence shall be committed or the place next adjoyning thereunto The penalty it shall be lawful to and for the Lord Treasurer or any of the Barons aforesaid or chief Magistrate of the Port or place where the offence shall be committed or the place next adjoyning thereunto to issue out a Warrant to any person or persons thereby enabling him or them with the assistance of a Sheriff Iustice of Peace or Constable to enter into any house in the day time where such Goods are suspected to be concealed and in case of resistance to break open such houses and to seize and secure the same goods so concealed And all Officers and Ministers of Iustice are hereby required to be aiding and assisting thereunto Provided alwayes That no house shall be entred by vertue of this Act No proceeding against any upon this Act unless within one month after the offence committed The continuance of this Act. Damages and costs against false informers unless it be within the space of one Moneth after the offence supposed to be committed Provided also That this Act shall continue in force unto the end of the first Session of the next Parliament and no longer Provided also That if the Information whereupon any house shall come to be searched shall prove to be false that then and in such case the party injured shall recover his full damages and costs against the Informer by Action of Trespass to be therefore brought against such Informer St. 13 Car. 2. cap. 7. CAP. XX. For raising Sevenscore thousand pounds for the compleat Disbanding of the whole Army and paying off some part of the Navy by a two Moneths Assesment of 70000 l. per mensem beginning from the first of November 1660. EXP. Stat. 13 Car. 2. cap. 6. CAP. XXI An Act for the speedy raising of Seventy thousand pounds for the present supply of His Majesty EXP. Stat. 13 Car. 2. cap. 6. cap. 10. CAP. XXII Bay-making in the Dutch Bay-Hall in Colchester regulated CAP. XXIII Certain Impositions upon Beer Ale and other Liquors For the Encrease of His Majesties Revenue during His Life THe Commons assembled in Parliament in gratitude for an humble acknowledgment of Your Majesties great Grace and Favour to us Your Commons beyond Example of any Your Royal Progenitors expressed in many publick Acts and Declarations to the great rejoycing and general satisfaction of all Your people The raâ—es given to his Majesty for life which they desire to answer with returns suitable and excéeding the Examples of any of their Ancestors for the encreasing of your Maiesties Revenue during Your Maiesties Reign which God long continue Do therefore give and grant unto your most Excellent Majesty the Rates and Duties Impositions Charges and sums of Money herein after following And do beséech your Majesty that it may be Enacted And be it Enacted by the Kings most Excellent Maiesty by and with the advice and consent of the Lords and Commons in Parliament Assembled That from and after the twenty fifth day of December One thousand six hundred and sixty there shall be throughout your Maiesties Kingdom of England Dominion of Wales and Town of Berwick upon Tweed
the said Isles of Jersey and Guernsey or either of them or to any such wooll to be shipped or loaden aboard in any ship or other vessel by or for the only use or behoof of any the Inhabitants of the said Isles of Jersey or Guernsey or either of them in the Port aforesaid to be exported and transported into the said Isles of Jersey or Guernsey or either of them so as such person and persons that shall so ship or lay aboard such wool into any ship or other Vessel do before the shipping or laying aboard such wool deliver unto the Customer Comptroller Surveyor or Searcher of the Port of Southampton aforesaid out of which the same wooll is to be exported a writing under the Seal or Seals of the respective Governors of the same Isles of Jersey and Guernsey unto which the said wooll is to be transported or of his or their Deputy or Deputies respectively the which writing shall purport and express that the party named in such writing is authorised and appointed to export or to cause to be exported out of the Port aforesaid so much wooll expressing the number of the Tods to the same Isle to be used or manufactured in one of the same Isles or in some of the members or parts of the same and that such party so authorised and appointed to export or cause to be exported that wooll hath before the making and sealing of that writing entred into sufficient Bond to his Majesties use for the landing of the said wooll in that Isle And to the intent that the quantity of wooll to be exported out of the Port of Southampton aforesaid into the said Isles or either of them in any one year accompting the year to begin from the first day of January next ensuing and so yearly from the first day of January may not excéed the quantity hereunder specified that is to say unto the Isle of Jersey Two thousand Tods and no more of unkeamed wooll and unto Guernsey Alderney Sarke One thousand Tods and no more of unkeamed wooll and unto Alderney Two hundred Tods and no more of unkeamed wooll and unto Sarke One hundred Tods of unkeamed wooll and no more every Tod not excéeding thirty two pounds And be it Enacted by the authority aforesaid That the Governor of the said Isle of Jersey or his Deputy for whom he will answer shall not make to any Person or Persons any writing or writings such as is above specified to authorise or appoint such Person or Persons as aforesaid to fetch export or transport out of the Port of Southampton aforesaid unto the said Isle of Jersey in one year accompting the year from the first day of January One thousand six hundred and sixty aforesaid any greater quantity of wooll then Two thousand Tods in any one year and that the Governor of the said Isle of Guernsey or his Deputy for whom he will answer shall not make to any Person or Persons any writing or writings such as is above specified to authorize and appoint such person or persons as aforesaid to fetch export or transport out of the Port above specified unto the said Isles of Guernsey with Alderney and Sarke in any one year accompting the year from the first day of January aforesaid any greater quantity of wooll then one thousand Tods for Guernsey Two hundred Tods for Alderney and one hundred Tods for Sarke in any one year and that the Customer of the Port of Southampton aforesaid shall kéep a true accompt of all the said quantity of Woolls so by him permitted to be loaden by vertue of this Act and shall not permit any greater quantity of Woolls to be loaden then by this Act is prescribed in any one year to either of the said Islands respectively under any pretence whatsoever upon the penalty of the forfeiture of his place and the sum of One hundred pounds in money one moyety whereof to the Kings Majesty His Heirs and Successors and the other moyety to him or them that will sue for the same in any Court of Record wherein no Essoign Protection or Wager of Law shall be allowed And if any of the Governors aforesaid or any of their or either of their Deputy or Deputies of the said Isles or either of them shall give grant or make any Licence or Licences for exporting from Southampton aforesaid into the said Isles respectively of any greater quantity of such Wooll then is before by the true meaning of this Act limited and appointed in that behalf That then the respective Governor or Governors of such of the said Isles shall forfeit and pay to Kings Majesty His Heirs or Successors the sum of Twenty pounds of lawful money of England for every Tod of Wooll which shall be so licensed to be exported over and above the rate or porportion of Wooll in and by this Act or the true meaning thereof limited or appointed And be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That the respective Governors aforesaid or their respective Deputies or any their Clerks Officers or Servants for the granting making or sealing of every such writing of Licence as is aforesaid and for the entring a Remembrance of the same into some Book which they shall have and kéep for that purpose may have and take the sum of Twelve pence and no more upon pain of forfeiting to the party grieved the sum of Five shillings for every penny which shall be taken over and above the said sum of twelve pence in and by this Act allowed to be taken and so after that proportion the said penalty or Forfeiture for the taking above Twelve pence as aforesaid to be recovered by Bill Plaint or Information in any Court of Record at Westminster or elsewhere wherein no Injunction Protection Priviledge Essoyne or Wager of Law shall be admitted or allowed St. 13 Car. 2. cap. 13. CAP. XXXIII The Confirmation of Marriages VVHereas by vertue or colour of certain Ordinances or certain pretended Acts or Ordinances divers marriages since the beginning of the late troubles have béen had and solemnized in some other manner then hath béen formerly used and accustomed Marriages since the ◠May 1642. confirmed Now for the preventing and avoiding of all doubts and questions touching the same It is Enacted by the Kings most Excellent Majesty with the advice and assent of the Lords and Commons in Parliament Assembled and by Authority of the same That all Marriages had or Solemnized in any of his Majesties Dominions since the first day of May in the year of Our Lord One thousand six hundred forty and two before any Iustice of Peace or reputed Iustice of Peace of England or Wales or other his Majesties Dominions and by such Iustice or reputed Iustice so pronounced or declared And all Marriages within any of His Majesties Dominions since the same first day of May in the year of Our Lord One thousand six hundred forty two had or Solemnized according to the
be drawn into example for the time to come 1 R. 3. ca. 2. CAPr V. For preventing Tumults and Disorders upon pretence of preparing or presenting publick Petitions or other Addresses to his Majesty or the Parliament Tumultuous and disorderly preparing petitions a great occasion of the late wars and calamities VVHereas it hath béen found by sad experience that Tumultuous and other Disorderly solliciting and procuring of Hands by private Persons to Petitions Complaints Remonstrances and Declarations and other Addresses to the King or to both or either Houses of Parliament for alteration of matters established by Law redress of pretended grievances in Church or State or other publick Concernments have béen made use of to serve the ends of Factious and Seditious persons gotten into power to the violation of the publick Peace and have béen a great means of the late unhappy Wars Confusions and Calamities in this Nation for preventing the like mischief for the future No person after the 1 Aug. 1661. shall sollicite or procure any petition c. for altering any established law in Church or state Be it Enacted by the Kings most Excellent Maiesty by and with the consent of the Lords and Commons Assembled in Parliament and by the Authority of the same That no person or persons whatsoever shall from and after the first of August One thousand six hundred sixty and one Sollicite Labour or procure the getting of Hands or other Consent of any persons above the number of twenty or more to any Petition Complaint Remonstrance Declaration or other Address to the King or both or either Houses of Parliament for alteration of matters established by Law in Church or State unless the matter thereof have béen first consented unto and Ordered by thrée or more Iustices of the County or by the Major part of the Grand Iury of the County or division of the County where the same matter shall arise at their publick Assizes or General Quarter Sessions or if arising in London by the Lord Mayor Aldermen and Commons in Common Councel assembled And that no person or persons whatsoever shall repair to his Majesty or both or either of the Houses of Parliament upon pretence of presenting or delivering any Petition Complaint Remonstrance or Declaration or other Addresses accompanied with excessive number of People nor at any one time with above the number of Ten persons upon pain of incurring a penalty not excéeding the sum of one hundred pounds in money and thrée moneths Imprisonment without Bail or Mainprize for every offence to be prosecuted at the Court of Kings Bench or at the Assizes or General Quarter Sessions within six moneths after the offence committed and proved by two or more credible witnesses Proviso Provided alwayes that this Act or any thing therein contained shall not be construed to extend to debar or hinder any person or persons not excéeding the number of Ten aforesaid to present any publick or private Grievance or Complaint to any Member or Members of Parliament after this Election and during the continuance of the Parliament or to the Kings Majesty for any Remedy to be thereupon had nor to extend to any Address whatsoever to his Majesty by all or any of the Members of both or either Houses of Parliament during the sitting of Parliament but that they may enjoy their fréedom of Access to his Majesty as heretofore hath béen used CAP. VI. The Militia declared to be in the King and for the present Ordering and Disposing the same The command of the Militia by Sea and land the undoubted right of his Majesty FOrasmuch as within all His Majesties Realms and Dominions the sole Supream Government Command and Disposition of the Militia and all Forces by Sea and Land and of all Forts and Places of strength is and by the Laws of England ever was the undoubted Right of His Majesty and his Royal Predecessors Kings and Quéens of England and that both or either of the Houses of Parliament cannot nor ought to pretend to the same nor can nor lawfully may raise or levy any War Offensive or Defensive against His Majesty his Heirs or lawful Successors and yet the contrary thereof hath of late years béen practised almost to the Ruine and Destruction of this Kingdom and during the late usurped Governments many evil and Rebellious Principles have béen distilled into the minds of the People of this Kingdom which unless prevented may break forth to the disturbance of the Peace and Quiet thereof And whereas an Act is under consideration for exercising the Militia An Act under consideration touching the Militia with most safety and case to the King and his People which Act cannot as yet be perfect Be it therefore Enacted by the Kings most Excellent Majesty by and with the Advice and Consent of the Lords and Commons assembled in Parliament That the Militia and Land-Forces of this Kingdgom and of the Dominion of Wales and Town of Berwick upon Tweed now under the Power of Lieutenants or their Deputies shall be exercised ordered and managed until the Five and twentieth day of March next ensuing in such manner as the same now is actually exercised ordered and managed according to such Commissions and Instructions as they formerly have or from time to time shall receive from his Majesty And whereas since the Twenty fourth of June One thousand six hundred and sixty there have béen Insurrections by occasion whereof divers of his Majesties good Subjects have béen murthered and for the securing the Peace of the Nation and preventing further disorders divers persons suspected to be Fanaticks Sectaries or Disturbers of the Peace have béen Assaulted Arrested Detained or Imprisoned and divers Arms have béen seised and Houses searched for Arms or suspected persons Be it therefore further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That all and every person and persons who have or shall have acted Persons who have Acted by commission of Lieutenancy or done any thing in execution of any Commission or Commissions of Lieutenancy issued by the Kings Majesty that now is or by colour of them or any of them touching or concerning the same or any of them or relating thereunto shall be and are hereby saved harmless and indempnified in this behalf And also all Magistrates Iustices of the Peace Officers and Ministers of Iustice and all persons that have or shall have acted by or under them or by their or any of their Commands since the said Twenty fourth day of June One thousand six hundred and sixty until the twentieth day of July One thousand six hundred sixty and one as to any assaulting arresting detaining or imprisoning any person suspected to be Fanatick Sectary or Disturber of the Peace or seising of Arms or searching of Houses for Arms or for suspected persons shall be and are hereby saved harmless and indempnified in that behalf Provided That neither this Act nor any thing therein contained Proviso shall after the Five
County of Southampton being parcel of the Mannor of Husband Priors which by order and decrée of the High-Court of Chancery of the one and twentieth of June One thousand six hundred sixty one she is to be forthwith restored unto and put into possession of and to quietly hold and enjoy the same during her Widowhood with the mean profits thereof taken by the said Mr Wallop But that it shall and may be lawful to and for the said Rachel Powre to hold and enjoy the same according to the said Decrée Proviso for Sir John Bourchier Provided alwayes and it is hereby further Enacted That it shall and may be lawfull to and for Barrington Bourchier Esquire Son and Heir of Sir John Bourchier herein before mentioned to hold and enjoy all and singular the Lands Tenements and Hereditaments to him lately granted and conveyed or mentioned to be granted and conveyed in and by certain Letters Patents under the Great Seal of England bearing date the Two and twentieth day of March in the thirtéenth year of His Majesties Reign against His Majesty His Heirs and Successors for ever according to the full intent and meaning of the said Letters Patents Any thing in this present Act contained to the contrary thereof in any wise notwithstanding Anno XIII Car. II. Regis ACTS made at the second meeting in this present Parliament begun at Westminster the 8th day of May Anno Dom. 1661. And there continued untill the 20th of December and from that day adjourned unto the seventh of January next ensuing as followeth CAP. I. An Act for the well Governing and Regulating of Corporations impowring the King to issue Commissions for the removing placing and restoring certain Officers and Members there FOr and within the several Cities Corporations and Burroughs and Cinque-Ports and their Members and other Port-Towns within the Kingdom of England Dominion of Wales and Town of Berwick upon Tweed viz. All Mayors Aldermen Recorders Bailiffs Town-Clerks Common-Councel-men and other persons then bearing any Office or Offices of Magistracy or Places or Trusts or other Imployment relating to or concerning the Government of the said respective Cities Corporations and Burroughs and Cinque-ports and their Members and other Port-Towns and for tendring to all such the Oaths of Allegiance and Supremacy and this Oath following I A. B. do declare and believe That it is not lawful upon any pretence whatsoever to take Arms against the King and that I do abhor that Traiterous Position of taking Arms by His Authority against His Person or against those that are Commissioned by Him So help me God And also for subscribing this following Declaration I A. B. do declare That I hold that there lies no Obligation upon me or any other person from the Oath commonly called The Solemn League and Covenant 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 the Kingdom EXP. 25. March 1663. as to the Power of the said Commission and Commissioners But None to be chosen any Officer in any Corporation that shall not have taken the Sacrament within a year next before Provided also and Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That from and after the expiration of the said Commissions no person or persons shall for ever hereafter be placed elected or chosen in or to any the Offices or Places aforesaid that shall not have within one year next before such Election or Choice taken the Sacrament of the Lords Supper according to the Rights of the Church of England and that every such person and persons so placed elected or chosen shall likewise take the aforesaid thrée Oaths and subscribe the said Declaration at the same time And shall take the said three Oaths and subscribe the said Declaration when the Oath for the due execution of the said Places and Offices respectively shall be administred And in default hereof every such placing election and choice is hereby Enacted and Declared to be void CAP. II. Vexations and Oppressions by Arrests and of Delayes in Suits of Law prevented WHereas by the Ancient and Fundamental Laws of this Realm The antient fundamental Law in proceeding to arrests upon Suits to express the true cause of Action in the Processe in case where any person is Sued Impleaded or Arrested by any Writ Bill or Process issuing out of any of His Majesties Courts of Records at Westminster in any Common Plea at the Suit of an◠Common person the true cause of Action ought to be set forth and particularly expressed in such Writ Bill or Process whereby the Defendant may have certain knowledge of the cause of the Suit and the Officer who shall execute such Writ Bill or Process may know how to take Security for the Appearance of the Defendant to the same and the sureties for such Appearances may rightly understand for what cause they become engaged And whereas there is a great Complaint of the People of this Realm that for divers years now last past very many of His Majesties good Subjects have béen arrested upon general Writs of Trespass quare clausum fregit Bills of Middlesex Latitat's and other like Writs issued out of the Courts of Kings Bench and Common-Pleas not expressing any particular or certain cause of Action and thereupon kept prisoners for a long time for want of Bail Bonds with Sureties for Appearances having béen demanded in so great sums that few or none have dared to be security for the Appearances of such persons so arrested and imprisoned although in truth there hath béen little or no cause of Action and often times there are no such persons who were named Plaintiffs but those Arrests have béen many times procured by malitious persons to vex and oppress the Defendants or to force from them unreasonable and unjust Compositions for obtaining their Liberty And by such evil practices many men have béen and are daily undone and destroyed in their Estates without possibility of having Reparation The Actors imployed in such practises having béen for the most part poor and lurking persons and their Actings so secret that it hath béen found very difficult to make true discoveries or proof thereof For remedy and prevention of which so great growing evils and mischiefs and also for discouraging all frivolous and uniust Suits and Causeless Arrests for the future Be it 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 from and after the Twelfth day of February in the year of our Lord Persons arrested by Process out of the Kings Bench or Common Pleas not expressing the cause of Action how to be bailed and set to liberty upon their own Bonds for appearance One thousand six hundred sixty and one no person or persons who shall happen to be arrested by any Sheriff Vnder-sheriff
cap. 29. have béen held by sundry Leases thereof made for years and for one two and thrée lives by means whereof the Tenants have fixed Estates have béen encouraged to improve and manure the same and have improved the same and therein laid out great sums of Money in Building and otherwise to the great advantage of the Publick And whereas for Twenty years and more now last past no such Leases have béen legally made so that it is probable most of the Tenants Estates will be determined or near determination ere that there can be any Estates well and legally renewed unless remedy therefore be provided by means whereof Waste Spoil and Dilapidation are likely to happen the Lands worn out and decayed and great disturbance and impoverishment to the Tenants And whereas on the like consideration King Charles the First was by special Law enabled to make such Leases Be it Enacted by our Soveraign Lord the King by and with the Advice and Consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal and Commons in this present Parliament assembled and by authority of the same That all Leases or Grants already made Leases by the King of Lands c. of the Dutchy of Cornwall made good or hereafter to be made within the space of thrée years now next ensuing by our said Soveraign Lord the King by Letters Patents Indentures or other Writings under His Great Seal of England or Seal of the Court of Exchequer or by Copy of Court-Roll according to the Customs of the respective Mannors of any Offices Parks Lands Tenements or Hereditaments other then Honors Lordships or Mannors parcel of the possessions of the said Dutchy of Cornwall or annexed to the same shall be good and effectual in Law according to the Purport and Contents of the said Leases Grants and Copies against our said Soveraign Lord the Kings Majesty his Heirs and Successors and against all and every person or persons that shall hereafter have inherit or enjoy the said Dukedome of Cornwal by force of any Act of Parliament or other limitation whatsoever Leases for above 31 years or three lives excepted Provided alwayes That every such Lease so to be made of any Parks Lands Tenements or Hereditaments in Possession shall be made but for thrée lives or fewer or for one and thirty years or under or some other term of years determinable upon one two or thrée lives and not above And if such Leases be made in Reversion That then the same together with the Estates in Possession do not excéed thrée lives or the term of one and thirty years and not in any wise dispunishable of Waste Not to be diâ—punishable of Waste The ancient rent to be reserved and so as upon every such Lease shall be reserved the ancient or most usual rent or more or such Rent as hath béen yielded or paid for the greater part of twenty years next before the making of the said Leases and shall be reserved due and payable by or to him or her that shall have the Inheritance or other Estate of the said Parks Lands Tenements or Hereditaments and where no such Rent hath béen reserved or payable That then upon every such Lease there shall be reserved a reasonable Rent not being under the fourth part of the clear yearly value of the Parks Lands Tenements or Hereditaments contained in such Lease Covenants conâ—â—sions in such leases grants or c. shall be good And be it further Ordained and Enacted by Authority of this present Parliament That all Covenants Conditions and Reservations and other Agréements contained in every Lease Grant or Copy heretofore made or hereafter so to be made as aforesaid shall be good and effectual in Law according to the words and contents of the same as well for and against them to whom the Reversion of the same Lands Tenements or Hereditaments shall come as for and against them to whom the Interest of the said Leases Grants or Copies shall come respectively as if our Soveraign Lord the Kings Maiesty at the time of the making of such Covenants Conditions and Reservations and other agréements were seised of an absolute Indefeasible Estate in Fée-simple in the same Lands Saving of others Rights Tenements or Hereditaments Saving alwayes to all and every person and persons Bodies Politick and Corporate their Heirs and Successors Executors Administrators and Assigns other then our said Soveraign Lord the Kings Maiesty and his Heirs and all and every person and persons that shall hereafter have inherit or enjoy the said Dukedom of Cornwall by force of any Act of Parliament or other limitation whatsoever all such Rights Titles Estates Customs Interests Terms Claims and demands whatsoever of what kind nature or quality whatsoever or in to or out of the said Offices Lands Tenements or Hereditaments or any of them as they or any of them had or ought to have had before the making of this Act to all intents and purposes and in as large and ample manner and form as if this Act had never béen had or made this Act or any thing therein contained to the contrary notwithstanding ACTS made in the Parliament begun and holden the 8th of May Anno 13 Caroli Secundi Regis And Continued to the 19th of May 14 Caroli Regis And thence Prorogued to the 18th of February then next following CAP. I. Certain Persons called Quakers and others refusing to take lawful Oaths VVHereas of late times certain persons under the names of Quakers and other names of Separation Quakers seperations denying to take an Oath have taken up and maintained sundry dangerous Opinions and Tenents and amongst others that the taking of an Oath in any case whatsoever although before a lawful Magistrate is altogether unlawful and contrary to the Word of God and the said persons do daily refuse to take an Oath though lawfully tendred whereby it often happens that the truth is wholly suppressed and the Administration of Iustice much obstructed And whereas the said Persons under a pretence of Religious Worship do often assemble themselves in great numbers in several parts of this Realm to the great endangering of the Publick Peace and Safety and to the terror of the People by maintaining a secret and strict correspondence amongst themselves and in the mean time separating and dividing themselves from the rest of his Majesties good and loyal Subjects and from the Publick Congregations and usual places of Divine Worship For the redressing therefore and better preventing the many Mischiefs and dangers that do and may arise by such dangerous Tenents and such unlawful Assemblies Be it Enacted by the Kings Most Excellent Majesty by and with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal and Commons Assembled in Parliament and by Authority of the same That if any person or persons who maintain that the taking of an Oath in any case whatsoever although before a lawfull Magistrate is altogether unlawful The penalty for refusing
Worship belonging to his said Benefice or Promotion upon some Lords Day before the Feast of Saint Bartholomew which shall be in the year of our Lord God One thousand six hundred sixty and two openly publiquely and solemnly Read the Morning and Evening Prayer appointed to be Read by and according to the said Book of Common Prayer at the times thereby appointed and after such reading thereof shall openly and publikely before the Congregation there assembled declare his unfeigned assent and consent to the use of all things in the said Book contained and prescribed In these words and no other I A. B. Do here declare my unfeigned assent and consent to all and every thing contained and prescribed in and by the Book intituled The Book of Common Prayer and Administration of the Sacraments and other Rites and Ceremonies of the Church according to the use of the Church of England together with the Psalter or Psalms of David Pointed as they are to be sung or said in Churches and the Form or manner of Making Ordaining and Consecrating of Bishops Priests and Deacons The Penalty for refusing And that all and every such person who shall without some lawful impediment to be allowed and approved of by the Ordinary of the place neglect or refuse to do the same within the time aforesaid or in case of such Impediment within one Moneth after such Impediment removed shall ipso facto be deprived of all his Spiritual Promotions And that from thenceforth it shall be lawful to and for all Patrons and Donors of all and singular the said Spiritual Promotions or of any of them according to their respective Rights and Titles to present or collate to the same as though the person or persons so offending or neglecting were dead Every person hereafter to be promoted to any Ecclestiastical Benefice shall read the Common Prayer and declare his assent thereto And be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That every person who shall hereafter be presented or collated or put into any Ecclesiastical Benefice or Promotion within this Realm of England and places aforesaid shall in the Church Chappel or place of publick worship belonging to his said Benefice or Promotion within two moneths next after that he shall be in the actual possession of the said Ecclesiastical Benefice or Promotion upon some Lords Day openly publickly and solemnly Read the Morning and Evening Prayers appointed to be Read by and according to the said Book of Common Prayer at the times thereby appointed and after such reading thereof shall openly and publickly before the Congregation there assembled declare his unfeigned assent and consent to the use of all things therein contained and prescribed according to the form before appointed The penalty for not so doing the same And that all and every such person who shall without some lawful Impediment to be allowed and approved by the Ordinary of the place neglect or refuse to do the same within the time aforesaid or in case of such Impediment within one moneth after such Impediment removed shall ipso facto be deprived of all his said Ecclesiastical Benefices and Promotions And that from thenceforth it shall and may be lawful to and for all Patrons and Donors of all and singular the said Ecclesiastical Benefices and Promotions or any of them according to their respective Rights and Titles to present or collate to the same as though the person or persons so offending or neglecting were dead Incumbents of Livings keeping Curates shall read the same once every moneth And be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That in all places where the proper Incumbent of any Parsonage or Vicarage or Benefice with Cure doth reside on his Living and kéep a Curate the Incumbent himself in person not having some lawful Impediment to be allowed by the Ordinary of the place shall once at the least in every moneth openly and publickly read the Common Prayers and Service in and by the said Book prescribed and if there be occasion Administer each of the Sacraments and other Rites of the Church in the Parish Church or Chappel of or belonging to the same Parsonage Vicarage or Benefice in such order manner and form The penalty and manner of conviction for not doing it as in and by the said Book is appointed upon pain to forfeit the sum of Five pounds to the use of the poor of the Parish for every offence upon conviction by confession or proof of two credible Witnesses upon Oath before two Iustices of the Peace of the County City or Town Corporate where the offence shall be committed which Oath the said Iustices are hereby impowred to Administer and in default of payment within ten dayes to be levied by distress and sale of the Goods and Chattels of the Offender by the Warrant of the said Iustices by the Church-wardens or Overséers of the poor of the said Parish rendring the surplusage to the party Deans Canons Prebendaries c. shall subscribe the Declaration 15 Car. 2. cap. 6. And be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That every Dean Canon and Prebendary of every Cathedral or Collegiate Church and all Masters and other Heads Fellows Chaplains and Tutors of or in any Colledge Hall House of Learning or Hospital and every publick Professor and Reader in either of the Vniversities and in every Colledge elsewhere and every Parson Vicar Curate Lecturer and every other person in holy Orders and every School-master kéeping any publick or private School and every person Instructing or Teaching any Youth in any House or private Family as a Tutor or School-master who upon the First day of May which shall be in the year of our Lord God One thousand six hundred sixty two or at any time thereafter shall be Incumbent or have possession of any Deanry Canonry Prebend Mastership Headship Fellowship Professors place or Readers place Parsonage Vicarage or any other Ecclesiastical Dignity or Promotion or of any Curates place Lecture or School or shall instruct or teach any Youth as Tutor or School-master shall before the Feast-day of St. Bartholomew which shall be in the year of our Lord One thousand six hundred sixty two or at or before his or their respective admission to be Incumbent or have possession aforesaid subscribe the Declaration or Acknowledgment following Scilicet The Decla ∣ ration I A. B. Do declare That it is not lawful upon any pretence whatsoever to take up Arms against the King and that I do abhor that Traiterous Position of taking Arms by His Authority against His Person or against those that are Commissionated by him And that I will conform to the Liturgy of the Church of England as it is now by Law established And I do declare That I do hold there lies no Obligation upon me or on any other person from the Oath commonly called The Solemn League and Covenant to endeavour any change or alteration of Government either
in Church or State And that the same was in it self an unlawful Oath and Imposed upon the Subjects of this Realm against the known Laws and Liberties of this Kingdome 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
Collegiate Church within England and Wales shall at their proper costs and charges before the Twenty fifth day of December One thousand six hundred sixty two obtain under the Great Seal of England a true and perfect printed Copy of this Act and of the said Book annexed hereunto to be by the said Deans and Chapters and their Successors kept and preserved in safety for ever and to be also produced and shewed forth in any Court of Record as often as they shall be thereunto lawfully required And also there shall be delivered true and perfect Copies of this Act and of the same Book into the respective Courts at Westminster and into the Tower of London to be kept and preserved for ever among the Records of the said Courts and the Records of the Tower to be also produced and shewed forth in any Court as néed shall require which said Books so to be exemplified under the Great Seal of England shall be examined by such persons as the Kings Majesty shall appoint under the Great Seal of England for that purpose and shall be compared with the Original Book hereunto annexed and shall have power to correct and amend in writing any Error committed by the Printer in the Printing of the same Book or of any thing therein contained and shall certifie in writing under their Hands and Seals or the hands and seals of any thrée of them at the end of the same Book that they have examined and compared the same Book and find it to be a true and perfect Copy which said Books and every one of them so exemplified under the Great Seal of England as aforesaid shall be déemed taken adjudged and expounded to be good and available in the Law to all intents and purposes whatsoever and shall be accounted as good Records as this Book it self hereunto annexed Any Law or Custome to the contrary in any wise notwithstanding Proviso for the Kings Professor of Law in Oxford Provided also That this Act or any thing therein contained shall not be prejudicial or hurtful unto the Kings Professor of the Law within the Vniversity of Oxford for or concerning the Prebend of Shipton within the Cathedral Church of Sarum united and annexed unto the place of the same Kings Professor for the time being by the late King James of blessed memory Provided alwayes Proviso concerning the 3â—th Article agreed in the Convocation Anno 1562. That whereas the Six and thirtieth Article of the Nine and thirty Articles agréed upon by the Archbishops and Bishops of both Provinces and the whole Clergy holden at London in the year of our Lord One thousand five hundred sixty two for the avoiding of diversities of Opinions and for establishing of consent touching true Religion is in these words following viz. That the Book of Consecration of Archbishops and Bishops and Ordaining of Priests and Deacons lately set forth in the time of King Edward the Sixth and confirmed at the same time by Authority of Parliament doth contain all things necessary to such Consecration and Ordaining neither hath it any thing that of it self is superstitious and ungodly And therefore whosoever are Consecrated or Ordered according to the Rites of that Book since the second year of the aforenamed King Edward unto this time or hereafter shall be Consecrated or Ordered according to the same Rites We decree all such to be rightly orderly and lawfully Consecrated and Ordered It be Enacted And be it therefore Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That all Subscriptions hereafter to be had or made unto the said Articles by any Deacon Priest or Ecclesiastical person or other person whatsoever who by this Act or any other Law now in force is required to subscribe unto the said Articles shall be construed and be taken to extend and shall be applied for and touching the said Six and thirtieth Article unto the Book containing the form and manner of Making Ordaining and Consecrating of Bishops Priests and Deacons in this Act mentioned in such sort and manner as the same did heretofore extend unto the Book set forth in the time of King Edward the Sixth mentioned in the said Six and thirtieth Article Any thing in the said Article or in any Statute Act or Canon heretofore had or made to the contrary thereof in any wise notwithstanding Provided also That the Book of Common Prayer The Common Prayer used by Authority of Parliament 1. Eliz. to be used untill Bartholomew Day 1662. EXP. and Administration of the Sacraments and other Rites and Ceremonies of this Church of England together with the form and manner of Ordaining and Consecrating Bishops Priests and Deacons heretofore in use and respectively established by Act of Parliament in the First and Eighth years of Quéen Elizabeth shall be still used and observed in the Church of England until the Feast of St. Bartholomew which shall be in the year of our Lord God One thousand six hundred sixty and two EXP. as to this last Clause CAP. V. For Regulating the Making of Stuffs in Norfolk and Norwich WHereas divers abuses and deceipts have of late years béen had and used in the making of Worsteds and other Stuffs commonly called Norwich Stuffs and in the Réeling of Yarnes whereof the said Stuffs are either wholly or in part made which tends to the debasing of the said Manufacture unto the prejudice of the publique which said Trade of Weaving of Stuffs hath of late times béen very much increased and great variety of new sorts of Stuffs have béen invented 7 E. 4. cap. 1. so that the Power given by the Statute of the Seventh of Edward the Fourth Chapter the First is not sufficient for the Regulating of the same And that the number of the Wardens by the same Act appointed being but Eight are too few for the Governing and Ordering the same Trade by which means the same Manufacture will soon be lost if not prevented and carried into forreign Nations to the great diminution of His Majesties Customs and turning out of the work many thousands of poor people For prevention of which abuses deceipts and evils The number of Wardens and Assistants of Master Weavers in Norwich how and when to be chosen It is Enacted by the Kings most Excellent Majesty with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal and Commons Assembled in Parliament and by the Authority of the same That there shall be Twelve Wardens and Thirty Assistants all which are to be Master-Weavers within the County of the City of Norwich and County of Norfolk sir of which said Wardens and fiftéen of the said Assistants shall be chosen the first Monday after Pentecost in the year of our Lord God One thousand six hundred sixty and two and from thenceforth yearly and every year on the next Monday after Pentecost at some publique place by the Master-Weavers or the greater part of them present of the said City and County of Norwich And the other six
seisure as aforesaid he or they shall forfeit for every such offence the sum of Twenty pounds for the uses and to be recovered as aforesaid And if any of the said Artificers and Dealers in cutting of Leather do refuse to be present with the said Searchers whensoever the same shall be desired by the said Master and Wardens of the Company of the Curriers or such persons thereto assigned by them as aforesaid then for every such default the persons so refusing shall forfeit the sum of Ten pounds for the uses and to be recovered as aforesaid CAP. VIII An Act for Distribution of Threescore thousand pounds amongst the truly Loyal and Indigent Commission-Officers and for Assessing of Offices and Distributing Moneys thereby raised for their further Supply EXP. CAP. IX For Relief of Poor and Maimed Officers and Souldiers who have faithfully served His Majesty and His Royal Father in the late Wars FOrasmuch as divers of His Majesties Loyal and Faithful Subjects who out of the sense of their Duty and Allegiance to his Majesties Royal Father of ever Blessed and Glorious Memory and to His Majestie that now is have during the late Wars wherein they have béen Imployed both by Sea and Land as Officers Souldiers and Mariners in the said Service exposed themselves to the utmost hazard of their Lives loss of their Limbs and utter ruine of their Fortunes and for whose Subsistence and Relief there is not yet any competent Provision made Nor for the Relief of the Widows and Orphans of such as have died or béen slain in the said Service And to the end that such as have béen eminent for their Loyalty and Sufferings The inducement and ground of this Act. in so good and just a Cause as the Defence of His Majesties Royal Person and Government may not passe without some Mark of Favour or Reward to be set upon them And that others may thereby receive all due Encouragement for the time to come to continue Loyal and Faithful to His Majesties Service according to their bounden Duty Be it 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 Authority of the same That from the First day of this present Parliament every Parish within this Realm of England and Dominion of Wales and Town of Berwick upon Tweed shall be charged wéekly to the payment of such sum of Money as formerly they have béen rated by vertue of a Statute made in the Forty third year of Quéen Elizabeth Chapter the third 43 El. cap. 3. concerning the Relief of Mariners and Souldiers for and to such end and purpose How Parishes may be charged assessed and levied And likewise such further sum of Money over and besides the same as by His Majesties Iustices of the Peace in their next Quarter-Sessions to be held after the Feast of Easter next ensuing or the major part of them or at any other Quarter-Sessions to be hereafter by them held shall be adjudged méet to be Assessed upon every Parish or Chappelry that hath distinct Parochial Officers so as the said additional sum excéed not the sum of Two shillings and six pence nor be under the sum of Thrée pence each wéek for each such Parish or Chappelry the same to be levied in manner and form by such persons and under such penalties as by the said Statute of Quéen Elizabeth is Enacted and Declared And to be paid to the Treasurers for the Maimed Souldiers Treasurer for Maimed Souldiers appointed by the Iustices of the County or Liberty by vertue of this Act and the Statute of Quéen Elizabeth aforesaid Which said Treasurers shall be ordered to issue out and account for the same in such manner and under such penalties as by the said Statute is further Enacted and Declared And be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid â—fficers â—â—â—ldiers or â—â—â—triners Maimed or indigent how to be relieved That every Officer Souldier or Mariner maimed indigent aged or disabled in body for work in the Service of His said late Majesty or His Majesty that now is during the late Wars or which are so Impoverished by their Sufferings under any of the late Vsurped Powers as that they are destitute of any competent Subsistence or Livelihood and have continued Faithful to his Trust and not deserted the same by taking up Arms against His said late Majesty or His Majesty that now is or otherwise shall forthwith repair to the place where he was last setled before he took up Arms with a Certificate of his Service and hurts received under the hand of his Captain or other Commissionated Officer And shall also repair unto the two next Iustices of the Peace in the County where such his Setling was And the said two Iustices upon the Examination of the Truth of such Certificate which the said two Iustices are hereby impowred to take upon Oath of the party and of such Witnesses as he shall produce shall by Warrant unto the Treasurer assign him Relief until the next Quarter-Sessions to be holden for that County or Liberty at which time a yearly Pension shall be by the said Iustices or the major part of them granted in Manner and Form and with Power of Revocation or Alteration as by the said Statute is further declared and directed And in case that the Captain or Officer appointed to make such Certificate be dead the said two Iustices shall have Power upon Request made to them in behalf of the party maimed or aged indigent or disabled as aforesaid by Persons of Credit to give such Relief as in case of Examination as aforesaid Widowes and Orphans of Souldiers And as touching the Widows and Orphans of such as have died or suffered death in the said Service It is hereby further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That over and besides such Relief as they shall gain by their Work and Labour and shall be allowed by the Charity and Benevolence of the Parish Town or Hamlet where they are setled who are hereby required to have them in special regard the Treasurers for the Maimed Souldiers for such County shall allow such further Relief from time to time as shall be adjudged méet by the two next Iustices of the Peace of such County And the said Relief shall be paid out of the Surplusage of such Stock of Maintenance as shall remain in the hands of the said Treasurers after such Pensions and payment of them made and of which Surplusage and Allowance made unto such Widows and Orphans the said Treasurers shall give account from time to time and the same distribute in such manner as by the Iustices shall be directed and according to the Statute aforesaid Treasurers High-Constables c. to be called to Accompt for Moneys received And be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That the Iustices of Peace in every County or Liberty or any
execution of their Office all and every person and persons so resisting affronting abusing beating or wounding the said Officer or Officers or their Deputies or such as shall Act in their aid or assistance shall by the next Iustice of Peace or other Magistrate be committed to Prison there to remain till the next Quarter-Sessions And the Iustices of the Peace of the said Quarter-Sessions shall and are hereby impowered to punish the Offender by Fine not excéeding One hundred pounds and the Offender is to remain in Prison till he be discharged by Order of the Exchequer both of the Fine and of the Imprisonment or discover the person that set him on work to the end he may be legally procéeded against No goods to be Water-born or landed but in the presence of some Officer of the Customs And be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That if any Wharfinger or Kéeper of any Wharf Crane Key or their servants or any of them shall take up or land or knowingly suffer to be taken up or landed or shall Ship off or suffer to be Water-born at or from any of their said Wharfs Cranes or Keys any Goods Wares or Merchandize prohibited or whereof any Custom Subsidy or other Duties are due and payable unto the Kings Majesty without the presence of some of the Officers of His Majesties Customs thereunto appointed or at hours and times not appointed by Law except in the Port of Hull 1 Eliz cap. 11. as in the Statute of the First year of Quéen Elizabeth Chapter the eleventh is excepted not otherwise or Goods passing by Certificates Waste-Cockquet The Penalty or otherwise without the presence or notice given to one or more of His Majesties Officers That in every such case all and every such Wharfinger and Kéeper of such Wharfe Crane or Key shall forfeit and pay the sum of One hundred pounds And if any Goods or Merchandize shall be Laden or taken in from the Shore into any Bark Hoy Lighter Barge Wherry or Boat to be carried aboard any Ship or Vessel Outwards bound for the parts beyond the Seas or Laden or taken in from or out of any Ship or Vessel coming in and arriving from foreign parts without a Warrant and presence of one or more Officers of the Customs such Bark Hoy Lighter Barge Boat or Wherry shall be forfeited and lost and the Master Purser Boatswain or other Mariner of any Ship Inward bound knowing and consenting thereunto shall forfeit the value of the Goods so unshipped And further That in case any Car-man Porter Water-man or other person or persons whatsoever shall assist in the taking up landing shipping off or carrying away any such Goods Wares or Merchandizes that then such Carman Porter Water-man or other person or persons so offending being apprehended by Warrant of any Iustice of the Peace for that County City or Borough which the said Iustices every of them are hereby Authorized to issue and to examine Witnesses upon Oath concerning such fact and the same being proved by the Oath of Two Witnesses the said Offenders for such first Offence shall and may by such Iustice of the Peace be committed to the next Gaol there to remain till he and they find sufficient Surety to be of the good behaviour for so long time until he they shall be thereof discharged by the Lord Treasurer Chancellor Vnder-Treasurer or Barons of the Exchequer And in case he or they so convicted shall afterwards at any time offend in the like kind then he and they shall and may by any Iustice of the Peace as aforesaid be committed to the next Gaol there to remain for the space of Two Moneths without Bail or Mainprize or until he shall pay unto the Sheriff of that County the sum of Five pounds for the use of His Majesty or until he shall by the Lord Treasurer Chancellor or Vnder-Treasurer or Court of Exchequer be thence discharged Be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That if any Goods Wares or Merchandizes shall be shipped or put on Board to be carried forth to the open Sea from any one Port Goods carryed from one Port to another in England or Wales Créek or Member in the Kingdom of England Dominion of Wales or Port and Town of Berwick to be landed at any other place of this Realm without a Sufferance or Warrant first had and obtained from the said person or persons which are or shall be appointed for managing the Customs and Officers of his Majesties Customs all such Wares and Merchandizes shall be forfeited and lost and that the Master of every Ship or Vessel that shall lade or take in any such Goods Wares or Merchandizes in any Port Member or Créek within this Kingdom of England Dominion of Wales or Town and Port of Berwick to be landed and discharged in some other Port Member or Créek of the said Kingdom of England Dominion of Wales or Town and Port of Berwick shall before the Ship or Vessel be removed or carried out of the Port where he shall take in his lading take out a Cocquet or Cocquets and become bound to the Kings Majesty with good Security in the value of the Goods Wares and Merchandizes aforesaid for Delivery and Discharge thereof in the Port or place for which the same shall be entred as aforesaid or in some other Port or place within the said Kingdom of England Dominion of Wales or Port and Town of Berwick and the dangers and accidents of the Seas excepted to return a Certificate within Six moneths after the date of such Cocquet and Cocquets under the Hands and Seals of the Kings Majesties Officers Signed also by some of the said person or persons which are or shall be appointed by His Majesty for managing the Customs or their Deputy or Deputies in every respective Ports Members or Créeks where the same shall be landed and discharged to His Majesties Officers of the Customs to whom such security hath béen given as aforesaid that such Goods Wares and Merchandizes were there landed and discharged accordingly Officers of any Port making false certificate upon the penalty of the forfeiture of the Bond and Security aforesaid And be it hereby further Enacted That if any Officer of any Port Member or Créek shall grant or make any false Certificate of any Goods or Merchandizes which should have béen landed out of any Ship or Vessel That such Officer shall lose his Imployment and moreover forfeit the sum of Fifty pounds The Penalty and suffer one years Imprisonment without bail or mainprize and be incapable of serving his Majesty in any place of Trust concerning his Customs and be further liable to such Corporal punishment as the Court of Exchequer shall think fit Counterfeiting Cocquets Certificates c. The penalty And if any person whatsoever shall Counterfeit Rase or Falsifie any Cocquet Certificate or Return Transire Let-pass or any other Custom-house Warrant he shall forfeit
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
appraised value upon loss of his Office Be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid No person employed about managing the customs may take any bride or reward to connive at any Entry That if any of the Kings Majesties Officers or other persons appointed to manage His Majesties Customs Searchers Waiters or other person or persons whatsoever deputed and appointed by and under them or any of them or any other Authority whatsoever and imployed in or about the Affairs of the Kings Customs and Subsidies shall directly or indirectly take or receive any bribe recompence or reward in any kind whatsoever or connive at any false Entry of any Goods or Merchandizes whereby the Kings Majesty His Heirs or Successors shall be defrauded or hindred in or of His Customs and Subsidies or other Sums of money or Goods prohibited by the Law to be Imported or Exported into or out of the Kingdom of England Dominion of Wales Town and Port of Berwick be suffered to pass either by way of Importation or Exportation the person or persons therein offending shall forfeit the sum of One hundred pounds The Penalty and be for ever afterwards incapable of any Office or Imployment under the Kings Majesty His Heirs or Successors or any Authority derived from them as also the Merchant Mariner or other person or persons whatsoever who shall give or pay any such Bribe Recompence or Reward as aforesaid shall forfeit the sum of Fifty pounds Provided nevertheless that if any person or persons offending as aforesaid Persons revealing their own offences within two months to be acquitted shall reveal and make known such his or their Offence in Two moneths time to the Treasurer of England the Chancellor Vnder-Treasurer or Barons of the Exchequer he shall for that Offence be clearly acquitted and discharged And be it further Enacted Forreign goods where to be landed and how weighed and numbred That all forreign Goods and Merchandize which by the person or persons which are or shall be appointed by his Majesty for the managing of the Customs and the Customer Collector and Comptroller shall be permitted to be landed and taken up by Bills at sight Bills at view or sufferance shall be landed at the most convenient Keys or Wharfs where the said person or persons so to be appointed Customer or Collector or Comptroller shall appoint and not elsewhere and there or in his Majesties Store-house of the respective Ports at the Election of the said person or persons so to be appointed and Officers shall be measured weighed and numbred by and in the presence of the Officers to be thereunto particularly appointed which said Officers so appointed shall perfect the Entry and thereunto shall subscribe their Names and the next day following shall give Accompt and make report of every respective Entry so perfected as aforesaid to the said person or persons which are or shall be appointed to manage his Majesties Customs Customer or Collector and Comptroller aforesaid without reasonable cause to be allowed by the said person or persons or Officers aforesaid or in default thereof shall forfeit the sum of One hundred pounds Be it also Enacted That no Ship Vessel or Boat Vessels appointed for carrying Letters may not import nor export Merchandise appointed and imployed ordinarily for the Carriage of Letters and Pacquets shall unless it be in such Cases as shall be allowed by the said person or persons which are or shall be appointed to manage his Majesties Customs or Officers aforesaid Import or Export any Goods or Merchandize into or out of the parts beyond the Seas upon the Penalty of the forfeiture of One hundred pounds to be paid by the Master of the said Vessel or Boat with the loss of his place and all Goods and Merchandize that shall be found on Board any such Ship Vessel or Boat shall be forfeited and lost And whereas some Doubts and Disputes have arisen concerning the said late Act For encresing and encouraging of Shipping and Navigation An Explanation of 12 Car. 2. cap. 18. of goods prohibited to be brought from Holland about some of the Goods therein prohibited to be brought from Holland and the Parts and Ports thereabouts Be it Enacted and Declared That no sort of Wines other then Rhenish no sort of Spicery Grocery Tobacco Pot-ashes Pitch Tarr Salt Rozen Deal-Boards Firr Timber or Olive-Oyl shall be imported into England Wales or Berwick from the Netherlands or Germany upon any pretence whatsoever in any sort of Ships or Vessels whatsoever upon penalty of the loss of all the said Goods as also of the Ships and furniture And whereas also by the said Acts For incouraging and increasing of Shipping and Navigation 12 Car. 2. c. 18. Imposition of 5 s. per Tun upon French Vessels an Imposition of Five shillings per Tun is laid upon all Ships or Vessels belonging to any Subjects of the French King which shall come into any Port Harbour Créek or Road of England Ireland Wales or Town of Berwick upon Tweed and shall there lade or unlade any Goods or take in or set on shore any Passengers Yet notwithstanding there is great difficulty in recovering the said Duty because small Shallops come not into Harbours where Officers are but either put their Goods and Passengers on shore or Boats come out of Harbours which privately convey them on shore there being no penalty in the Act against such Offenders Be it therefore Enacted How to be recovered and the penalty That any such Ship or Vessel upon which the above-said Imposition of Five shillings per Tun is due and payable which shall either put on shore or put over into any Boat any Goods or Passengers without payment of Custom and Imposition of Tunnage at any time returning into any Harbour Port or Creek of England or Ireland shall not only pay the Duties formerly due but forfeit the sum of Ten pounds And whatsoever Pilot Water-man or Boat-man which shall from any Harbour Port or Créek go out and bring any Goods from on board such Vessel shall not only be liable to pay the Duty of Tunnage which the said Vessel should have paid but forfeit the sum of Forty pounds Be it also hereby Enacted That Vinegar Perry Rape Cider and Cider-eager of any sort or kind whatsoever Tunnage upon V negar Perry Rape Cyder and Cyder eager Imported from and after the four and twentieth day of June One thousand six hundred sixty and two from Forreign Parts is hereby Rated to pay to the Kings Majesty a Subsidy of Tunnage of Four pounds Ten shillings per Tun Imported by English and Six pounds Imported by Stangers according to the Rate already imposed and set upon French Wines to be Collected and Levied for such time and in such manner as by the Act of Tunnage and Poundage is directed and appointed And the same are by vertue of this Act exonerated and discharged of all further and other Sums heretofore set or
of any of the Kings or Quéens of England for the time being for the carrying the Goods of his Majesty his Heirs or Successors or the said Quéens or children or any of them without such full and free consent as aforesaid Any Law Statute Custom or Vsage to the contrary notwithstanding Be it notwithstanding 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 in the year of our Lord How carriages shall be provided for his Majesties Navy and Ordnance One thousand six hundred sixty and two as often as the Service of his Majesties Navy or Ordnance shall require any Carriages by Land within the Kingdom of England and Dominion of Wales and Town of Berwick upon Tweed upon notice given in writing by Warrant under the hand and seal of the Lord High Admiral of England for the time being or under the hands and seals of two or more of the principal Officers or Commissioners of his Majesties Navy or under the hand and seal of the Master of his Majesties Ordnance for the time being or under the hand and seal of the Lieutenants of his Majesties Ordnance for the providing of Carriages for the respective service of the Navy or Ordnance unto two or more Iustices of the Peace dwelling near unto the place where the said Iustices of the Peace may and shall immediately issue forth their Warrants to such of the adjacent Parishes Hundreds or Divisions as they shall judge fit within their respective Counties and Divisions not being above Twelve Miles distant from the place of lading for the sending to a certain place and at certain times to be specified and appointed in the said Warrants such numbers of Carriages with Horses or Oxen sufficient for the said service as by the Lord high Admiral of England for the time being or by the Master or Lieutenant of his Majesties Ordnance for the time being or by the principal Officers or Commissioners of his Majesties Navy respectively as abovesaid shall be by writing under their hands and seals required the Owners of which Carriages or their Servants The rates allowed for carriages shall receive for every Load of Timber per mile one shilling for every reputed mile which they shall go laden and for other Provisions the summe of eight pence per mile for every Tun they shall carry And be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That it may and shall be lawful for the Lord High Admiral of England for the time being by Warrant under his hand and seal and also for the principal Officers and Commissioners of his Majesties Navy by Warrants under the hands and seals of any two or more of them as also for the Master of his Majesties Ordnance for the time being by Warrant under his hand and seal and also for the Lieutenant of his Majesties Ordnance by Warrants under the hands and seals of either of them as often as the service of his Majesties Navy or Ordnance respectively shall require any Carriage by Water Impressing of persons ships vessels for carriages to appoint such person or persons as they shall judge fitting to Impress and take up such Ships Hoys Lighters Boats or any other Vessel whatsoever as shall be necessary for the Accommodation of his Majesties said service the Owners of which said Ships Hoys Lighters Boats or other Water-Carriage aforesaid or such as they shall appoint shall receive for the hire of every such Ship Hoy Lighter Boat or other Vessel per Tun according to the Rates usually paid by Merchants from time to time And in case his Majesties Officers and the Owners of such Ships Hoys Lighters Boats or other Vessels shall not agree on the said rates then the rate to be setled by the Brotherhood of Trinity-house of Deptford-Strand And be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid Penalty upon such as neglect or refuse That in case any of his Majesties Subjects of this Realm shall refuse or wilfully neglect after reasonable notice to make their appearance with such sufficient carriages by Land or to fit provide and furnish their Ships Hoys Lighters Boats or other Vessels for the service of his Majesties Navy or Ordnance as is before expressed or shall after they have undertaken such service neglect or delay the same that then upon due proof and conviction of such refusal or neglect by the Oath of the Constable or other Officer or two other credible witnesses before the said Iustices of Peace of the County or Mayor or other chief Officer of the City or Corporation where he or they inhabit which Oath they shall have power to administer for the Land-Carriages and for the Water-Carriages by the Oath of such person as shall be appointed by the Lord High Admiral the principal Officers or Commissioners of his Majesties Navy the Master of his Majesties Ordnance or the Lieutenant of his Majesties Ordnance as aforesaid or other two credible witnesses before the principal Officers or Commissioners of his Majesties Navy or Master or Lieutenant of his Majesties Ordnance respectively which Oath they shall have likewise power to administer the Party so refusing or neglecting shall for every such refusal or neglect forfeit the sum of Twenty shillings for the Land-carriage and for Carriage by Water treble the freight of such Ship or Vessel not excéeding Fifty pounds in the whole to the Kings Majesties use to be forthwith levied in default of payment upon demand by distress and sale of his Goods and Chattels by Warrant from the said Iustices of the Peace Mayor or other chief Officer or from the principal Officers or Commissioners of his Majesties Navy or Master or Lieutenant of his Majesties Ordnance respectively rendring to the Parties the overplus upon every such Sale if there shall be any the charge of distraining being first deducted The time of continuance in the service Provided always that no Horses Oxen Cart Wayn or other Land-Carriage shall be enforced to Travail more days Iourney from the place where they receive their lading or be compelled to continue longer in the imployment then shall be appointed by the Order of the said Iustices of the Peace and that ready payment shall be made in hand for the said Carriages at the place of lading without delay Present payment to be made according to the aforesaid Rates Provided always That in case any Iustice of the Peace Mayor chief Officer or Constable or any person or persons which shall be appointed by the Lord High Admiral the principal Officers or Commissioners of his Majesties Navy the Master of his Majesties Ordnance or the Lieutenant of his Majesties Ordnance as aforesaid respectively shall take any gift or reward to spare any person or persons No gifts or rewards may be taken by Iustices of the Peace
ease of Sheriffs in passing their Accompts Seizures of Lands remaining charged Michaelmas 1660. Be it Enacted and Declared That from henceforth every Seizure for or concerning any Lands Tenements and Hereditaments now remaining charged in the Foreign accompt of any Sheriff or Sheriffs within the Kingdom of England for the year ended at Michaelmas One thousand six hundred and sixty shall be from the said Foreign accompt charged particularly in the great Roll of the Exchequer And that the several Remembrancers of the said Court or their respective Deputies do in their respective Officers forthwith Seizures hereafter taken or returned and so from time to time for the future write and make true and perfect Copies of all and every such other Seizure and Inquisition as already are or hereafter shall be certified into their respective Offices without certifying the Copy of the Writ or Commission at large upon which such Seizure or Inquisition is or shall be so taken or returned mentioning only in brief the Date of the said Writ or Commission and shall deliver the said Copies well and truly examined and attested under his or their Hands to the Engrosser of the said great Roll And that all such of the said Seizures and Inquisitions as now are returned into any of their respective Offices shall be delivered before the first day of February next coming And that all such other seizures as shall hereafter be returned or certified into their respective Offices shall be delivered so examined and attested as aforesaid to the said Engrosser before the first day of the next Term after the said Remembrancers shall have received the same so as the same may be charged in the great Roll To the end that the Processe of the Court may from thence issue for levying the Issues and Profits thereof to the use of the Crown unto which said Remembrancers or their Deputies shall be from time to time paid for every Sheet which they or their respective Clerks shall so write and deliver the sum of eight pence Fees to the Remembrancers the same to be paid unto them by the aforesaid respective Sheriffs who shall be allowed the same by the Barons upon their respective Accompts out of the Issues and Profits arising out of the Premisses so seized and no Sheriff or Sheriffs for this persent year One thousand six hundred sixty and one Sheriffs shall not answer illeviable seizures Farm Rents c. nor any Sheriff or Sheriffs to be hereafter made or appointed within this Kingdom of England shall be charged in accompt to answer any illeviable Seizure Farm Rent or Debt or other Seizure Farm Rent Debt matter or thing whatsoever which was not writ in Processe to him or them to be levied wherein the persons of whom or the Lands or Tenements out of which together with the cause for which the same shall be so levied shall be plainly and particularly expressed but shall be thereof wholly discharged without Petition Plea or other trouble or charge whatsoever And it is hereby further Enacted and Declared Seizures before 1 Jac. and divers others to be left out of the Sheriffs accompt That all Seizures heretofore made before the first Year of the Reign of the late King James of ever blessed memory now remaining in the Accompts of the Sheriffs and all Seizures and Debts which are pardoned shall be and are hereby fully discharged And that the same and every of them shall hereafter be left out of Sheriffs accompts without further Order Plea Petition or other Charge to any Sheriff or Sheriffs whatsoever And that no Processe shall from henceforth be written forth to any Sheriff for the levying of the same or any of them nor for any other Rent or Farm which cannot be explained by setting forth the particulars thereof or which have been unanswered by the space of forty years last past And that all other dead Farms and Seizures and all desperate illeviable and unintelligible Debts shall be removed out of the Annual Roll and Sheriffs Charge into the Exannual Roll there to remain untill by Commission they shall be revived and made answerable Process for Debts to be sent forth in convenient time And to the end that all new Debts arising and coming into the Exchequer for the future may be sent forth in Processe within convenient time Be it also Enacted and Declared That the aforesaid several Remembrancers do forthwith inrol and certify to the said Ingrosser of the great Roll all such Debts as any Sheriff or Sheriffs of this Realm are or hereafter shall be charged withall either by vertue of their respective Retorns made to the Barons of the said Exchequer upon his Majesties Writs of Fieri facias Levari facias Capias or other Processe and also of all Fines and Amerciaments which are or shall be set and imposed by the Court of Exchequer upon any Sheriff or Sheriffs for his or their contempts or neglects that is to say That all and every such Debts Fines and Amerciaments as now are returned set or imposed in any of the said Offices shall be delivered as aforesaid before the First day of February next ensuing And all such Debts Fines and Amerciaments as shall hereafter be returned set or imposed in any of the respective Offices shall be also delivered by the First day of the next Term after such Retorns made The penalty upon officers for doing any thing against this Act. or such Fines or Amerciaments so set or imposed that so they may be all charged in the Sheriffs Accompts respectively and comprehended within his or their Quietus est upon pain that every Officer or Officers in the said Exchequer who shall in any thing offend contrary to this present Act shall forfeit the sum of Forty pounds for every such offence whereof one moyety shall be to the King his Heirs and Successors and the other moyety to the party or parties who shall be thereby agrieved to be recovered by Action of Debt Bill Plaint or Information in any of his Majesties Courts at Westminster wherein no Essoin Protection Priviledge or Wager of Law shall be allowed or admitted 9 E. 2. St. Lincoln 4 E. 3. cap. 9. 5 E. 3. cap. 4. And it is hereby further Provided and Ordained That no person shall be assigned to be Sheriff of any County within this Realm except such as have Lands within the same County sufficient to answer the King and his people And whereas by an Act made in the One and twentieth year of the Reign of our late Soveraign Lord King James over England 21 Jac. cap. 5. It was provided That whensoever any Sheriff upon passing his Accompts A Quietus est to be a sufficient discharge for a Sheriff if not questioned within four years after grant thereof should have his Quietus est that he should be thereby absolutely discharged of all sums of Money by him Levied and Received and pretended not to be accompted for
Enacted That all and every person and persons which since the five and twentieth day of March One thousand six hundred sixty and two have acted or done any thing in the dismantling of any Cities or Towns or demolishing of Walls and Fortifications thereof or relating thereunto shall be and are hereby indempnified and saved harmless And whereas some doubt hath arisen upon the said Act what Estates shall be charged with or toward Foot Be it therefore Enacted and Declared by the Authority aforesaid How persons may be charged with arms and for what estates That no person who hath an Estate of the yearly value of two hundred pounds or personal Estate of the value of two thousand four hundred pounds chargeable by the said Act shall be charged with or toward the finding any Foot and it shall be lawful for the respective Lieutenants and Deputies or any three or more of them to charge according to the proportions in the said Act any person who hath an Estate of the yearly value of one hundred pounds and under the yearly value of two hundred pounds or who hath a personal Estate of twelve hundred pounds and under the value of two thousand four hundred pounds chargeable by the said Act with or towards the finding of Foot or toward the finding of Horse as to their judgment shall séem most expedient for his Majesties Service Yet nevertheless this shall not be construed to extend to make any alterations in the provisions in the said or this Act concerning the Forces to be charged or raised in Cities Corporations and Port-Towns Provided always and be it Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That the Lord Warden of the Cinque-Ports to antient Towns and their Members and in his absence The Cinque-Ports his Lieutenant or Lieutenants shall and may put in execution within the said Ports Towns and Members all the Powers and Authorities given and granted by this and the said former Act and to execute and perform all and every the things therein contained in the like manner as the respective Lieutenants of the Counties and their Deputies may do and may kéep up and continue the usual numbers of Souldiers in the said Ports Towns and Members unless they find cause to lessen the same And that the Inhabitants of the said Ports Towns and Members being in regard of their scituation on the Sea-coasts charged with a greater proportion of Arms and Armed men then other parts of the Kingdom shall not be charged with Arms or Armed men in the Counties adjacent for their Estates there lying save only for such proportion as they are lyable unto and either are not or shall not be charged with within the said Ports Towns and Members Any thing in this Act contained to the contrary in any wise notwithstanding St. Martins Parish in Stamford Baron in Lincolnshire Provided always and be it Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That the Inhabitants and Revenues of or in the Parish of Saint Martin called Stamford Baron in the Suburbs of the Borough and Town of Stamford on the South-side of the Waters there called Welland may be Assessed and Charged to find and serve in the Trained Bands of the County of Lincoln as formerly according to the said mentioned Act and this present Act by the Lieutenant and Deputy-Lieutenants for the County of Lincoln for the time being in such manner as any persons or estates within the said County of Lincoln may be by them assessed and charged to the purposes aforesaid And they of Saint Martin aforesaid are hereby declared to be well and legally assessed and charged by the said Lieutenant and Deputy-Lieutenants respectively CAP. V. For Regulating Select Vestries FOr prevention of the evils which may arise from Vestry-men not Conforming to the Government and Discipline of the Church of England as it now is by Law established Be it Enacted by the Kings most Excellent Majesty by the Advice and with the Consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal and of the Commons in this present Parliament Assembled That all and every person who now is a Vestry-man or member of any Vestry within any Parish in the Cities of London and Westminster Borough of Southwark and wéekly Bills of Mortality and in all other Cities Boroughs and Towns Corporate where Select Vestries are used in the Kingdom of England All Vestry-men shall take and subscribe the Declaration in 14 Car. 2. c. 4. on or before the Nine and twentieth day of September next And all and every person who at any time hereafter shall be elected to be a Vestry-man or member of any Vestry within any Parish in any the places aforesaid within one moneth after such his Election shall before the respective Archbishop Bishop or Ordinary Vicar-General or Chancellor of the Diocess make and subscribe the Declaration and Acknowledgment enjoyned in the late wholsom good Act Entituled An Act for the Uniformity of Publick Prayers and Administration of Sacraments and other Rites and Ceremonies and for establishing the Form of Making Ordaining and Consecrating Bishops Priests and Deacons in the Church of England in these words following I A. B. Do declare That it is not lawful upon any pretence whatsoever to take up Arms against the King and that I do abhor that Traiterous Position of taking Arms by His Authority against His Person or against those that are Commissionated by him And that I will conform to the Liturgy of the Church of England as it is now by Law established And I do declare That I do hold there lies no Obligation upon me or on any other person from the Oath commonly called The Solemn League and Covenant to endeavour any change or alteration of Government either in Church or State And that the same was in it self an unlawful Oath and Imposed upon the Subjects of this Realm against the known Laws and Liberties of this Kingdome The penalty And that all and every such person who shall neglect or refuse to do the same within the respective times aforesaid shall ipso facto be deprived of such his place of Vestry-man and of being a Member of such Vestry to all intents and purposes And such place shall be actually void as if such person were naturally dead Any Vsage or Custom to the contrary notwithstanding And that from and after such neglect or refusal it shall be lawful for all persons who shall have right of Election or nomination of such Vestry-man or member of such Vestry to procéed to election or nomination of some other discréet person of the respective Parish in the room of such person so neglecting or refusing as aforesaid And if such person so to be elected in the room of such person so neglecting or refusing as aforesaid shall also neglect or refuse to make and subscribe the said Declaration and Acknowledgment in manner and time aforesaid whereby such place shall again become void or if such persons who shall have right of Election or nomination
for fishing in New-found-land The penalty shall burn destroy or steal any Boat Cask Salt Nets or other Vtensils for Fishing or making of Oyl or other goods or Merchandize left in any Harbour in New-found-land or Greenland by English or burn pull down or destroy any house built by English in New-found-land or Greenland to live in during the Fishing season or Stage built by them in either of the said places for the saving or ordering of Fish or making of Oyl upon pain of the loss of double the value of what shall be by them stoln burnt or destroyed to be recovered in any of his Majesties Courts in New-found-land or Greenland respectively or in any Court of Record in England by Bill Plaint or other Action wherein no Essoign Protection or Wager in Law shall be allowed A repeal of the Statute concerning Madder 14 Car. 2. c. 30 And whereas upon the humble Petition and complaint of the Merchants and Salters of the City of London it doth appear That some sorts of Madder very useful for Dying cannot be Imported so pure and clean as by one Act passed the last Session of this present Parliament Intituled An Act for the Importation of Madder pure and unmixed is directed and appointed Be it Enacted and it is hereby Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That the said Act and every Clause and Thing therein contained be from henceforth utterly void and repealed to all intents purposes and Constructions whatsoever CAP. XVII An Act for setling the Dreining of the Great Level of the Fenns called Bedford Level VVHereas certain Moors Marshes Fenny and Low surrounded Grounds within the Counties of Northampton Norfolk Suffolk Lincoln Cambridg and Huntington and the Isle of Ely were called the Great Level of the Fenns And after several fruitless undertakings for Dreining the same were upon the Desires of many persons of Worth and Interessed in the same declared to be a Great and Noble Work and of much Concernment to the whole Countrey and at their earnest desire undertaken to be Dreined by Francis late Earl of Bedford according to a Law of Sewers made at Kings Lynne in the sixth year of the Reign of the late King Charles of glorious memory which said Level is bounded as followeth viz. Eastward from the Bridg and Cawsey of Stoake unto Brandon-Bridg upon the Vplands of Northold Methold Feltwell Hockwold and Wilton in the County of Norfolk and from Brandon-Bridg unto the end of Worlington-Load upon Mildenhall River The great level of the fens how bounded upon the Vplands of Brandon the Low grounds of Wainsford excluding the same the Vplands of Sakingheath the Low grounds of Earsewell excluding the same And the Vplands of Mildenhall in the County of Suffolk Southward from Worlington-Load unto Burwell Block upon the Vplands of Freckingham Istham Fordham Soham and Wickin in the County of Cambridg and excluding the Low grounds of Burwell Landward and other places lying Eastward from Burwell Block aforesaid and from thence unto the Mill near Anglisey Abby upon the Vplands of Burwell Reach Swaffham Pryor Swaffham Bulbeck and Botsham in the County of Cambridg and from thence unto the Ferry-place at Clayhith upon the Vplands called Quyhall the Low Ground called Low-Fenne and the Vplands of Hormingsey and Clayhith in the said County excluding the Low grounds called Low Fenne and Offenne and from the said Ferry-place unto Over-Load upon the Vplands of Water-Beach Cottenham Rampton Winelingham and Over in the said County of Cambridg and upon the Low grounds of Swacy in the said County excluding the same Westward from Erith unto the Dam lately made upon the River Neane near Standground upon the Vplands of Somersham and the Soake thereof Warbois Wistow Berry Ramsey Upwood Raveley Wood-walton Sawtrey Connington Glatton and Holme Caldecott Denton Stilton Yaxley Fasset and Standground in the County of Huntington excluding the Low grounds lying on the North side of the River of Owse above Erith and from the said Dam unto Peterborough Bridg upon the said River of Neane and from thence unto the Ferry-place near Waldron Hall upon the Vplands of Peterborough and the Soake thereof in the County of Northampton and Northward from the said Ferry-place near Waldron Hall unto Crowland Bridg upon the River of Welland and from thence to Dowsedale upon the Bank of Great Porland and from thence unto Guyhurne upon the Southea Bank and from thence unto Tilnehurne upon the Bank of the Fenne Ground called Waldersea and from thence unto Elme Leame at Grangers House upon the Bank of the Fenne Ground called Coldham and from thence unto the River of Neane near Thurlings in Upwell upon the Bank of Needham called Bishops Dike and from thence unto Weil Creek at the North-west corner of Wassingham Fenne upon the Bank of the Grounds in Upwell and Outwell called Playfield and Churchfield excluding the aforesaid Fennes and Grounds called Waldersea Coldham Needham Playfield and Churchfield and from thence unto Salters-Load upon the New Podyke Bank and from thence unto the mouth of the River Wissey upon the River Owse and from thence unto Helgey Bridg upon the River Wissey and from thence unto the Vplands at the end of the Bank of the Grounds late of Edmond Skipwith Esquire deceased upon the said Bank and from thence unto Stoake Bridg upon the Vplands of Roxham Deereham Weereham Wretton and Stoake in the said County of Norfolk Except the imbanked Grounds late of Edmond Skipwith Esquire lying on the North side of the River of Owse And whereas the said Francis late Earl of Bedford was to have for his recompence of effecting that difficult work onely Ninety five thousand Acres of the said Grounds with convenient High-wayes and Passages to the same And the New River Cutts and Dreynes to be made by the said Earl and his Assigns and the Banks of the same and the Forelands in the inside of the said Banks not to exceed Sixty foot in breadth Which was a work of so Great and Publick Concernment that his said late Majesty gave great Encouragement to the said Francis late Earl of Bedford and others whom he had taken in to be Adventurers and Participants with him therein upon the Covenants Conditions and Agréements contained and specified in and by a certain Indenture of Fourtéen parts bearing date the seven and twentieth day of February in the seventh year of the Reign of his said late Majesty and his Royal Assurance to further it by his Concurrence to an Act of Parliament for establishing thereof and did by Letters Patents under the Great Seal of England Incorporate the said late Earl his Adventurers and Participants to have Succession for ever and in order to the effecting thereof the said late Earl and his Adventurers and Participants bestowed great sums of money for perfecting the same and after his death and some interruptions William now Earl of Bedford son and heir to the said Earl Francis with divers of his Adventurers and Participants
Earl of Lindsey Lord Great Chamberlain of England Robert Bâ—tie Edward Russel Bannestre Maynard Esquires Sir John Barrington Knight and Baronet Sir Henry Appleton Sir William Ailoffe Sir William Hicks Sir Andrew Jennour Sir William Wiseman Sir Richard Everard Baronets Sir Capel Luckin Knight and Baronet Sir Martin Lumley Baronet Sir Thomas Abdy Sir Robert Abdy Sir William Wiseman Knights and Baronets Sir Thomas Smith Sir Thomas Cambel Baronets Sir James Altham Sir John Bramstone Knighâ—s of the Bath Sir John Tyrel Sir Erasmus Delafontain Sir Thomas Bowes Sir Cranmer Herris Sir Henry Clarke Sir Edmond Pierce one of the Masters of the Chancery Sir Anthony Brown Sir Richard Wiseman Sir William Battin Sir John Shaw Sir Robert Brooke sir Richard Everard sir Thomas Littleton sir Robert Barington sir Thomas Gardner sir Moundeford Brâ—mstone sir William Glascock two of the Masters of the Chancery sir Thomas Fanshaw sir Thomas Byde sir William Hicks sir Edward Beaucock Knights John Bendish Charles Fytche Gamaliel Capel Richard Samms Thomas Meade Peter Soame John Tyrrel Thomas Argâ—l Oliver Reymond John Atwood Henry Woolaston Henry Pert John Eldred senior John Eldred junior John Paschall John Godbolt Robert Joselyn William Glascock Tristram Conyers Thomas Luther VVilliam Umphrevil Thomas Roberts John James George Pert William Colecroft William Webb Robert Leigh William Appleton John Berners Robert Clerk John Turner Richard Kirkby Carew Harvy Mildmay Robert Cheeke Francis Bramstone Edward Bullock Stephen Smith Robert Mildmay Henry Weight Gilbert Pierce _____ Hare of Lee James Norfolk Cutbert Martin Thomas Talcot Esquires Philip Eldred Henry Ailoff George James Thomas King VVilliam Harris John Thorowgood William Palmer Richard Stanss Alexander Prescot Thomas Legate John Sorrel Edward Glascock William Ashley Gentlemen Thomas Wharton Anthony Maxie and Thomas Garret Esquires Anthony Knightbridge of Writtle Gent. Captain Richard Stams sir Richard Browne Knight and Baronet and Jeremy Lacy. Colchester For the Town of Colchester the Mayor for the time being sir John Shaw Knight Recorder Sir Edmond Peirce Knight Gilbert Peirce Thomas Talcot Esquires Thomas Reynalds Andrew Fromanteel Henry Lambe Robert Legg William Moore Aldermen John Robinson George Sandford James Norfolke Esquires and Thomas Creffeild Alderman Maldon For the Town of Maldon The Bailiffs for the time being Reuben Robinson Samuel Plumbe Francis Gourney James Starling John Hart Aldermen and Bartholomew Brickwood Harwich For the Town of Harwich The Mayor for the time being Sir Capel Luckin Baronet George Colman Richard Fuller Henry Wright Aldermen _____ Gerard Daniel Smith Thomas King Anthony Woolward Samuel Newton and Miles Hobart Gentlemen Gloucester For the County of Gloucester Henry Lord Herbert of Ragland son and heir apparent to Edward Marquis of Woâ—cester James Earl of Newburgh in the Kingdom of Scotland John Viscount Scudamore of the Kingdom of Ireland John Viscount Tracy of the Kingdome of Ireland Sir Matthew Halâ— Knight Lord Chief Baron of His Majesties Court of Exchequer Sir Henry Capell Knight of the Bath sir Bainham Throckmorton Knight and Baronet sir Henry Frederick Thynne sir William Ducy sir Richard Ashfeild sir Edward Bathurst sir Robert Jenkinson sir John Howe sir Christopher Guise sir Edward Fulse sir William Keyte sir Richard Cox Baronets sir William Moreton Knight one of His Majesties Serjeants at Law sir Robert Poâ—â—â— sir Robert Atkins Knights of the Bath sir William Catchmay sir Edward Bray sir Edward Masâ—ey sir Thomas Stephens Sir Thomas Overbury Sir Gabriel Lowe sir John Newton sir Humphrey Hooke sir Thomas Howe Knights John Grubham Howe Esquire Evan Seyes Sergeant at Law Francis Baber Doctor of Law George Mountague VVilliam Dutton William Cooke John Chamberlaine John Stephens William Cope John Codrington Richard Atkins Henry Powle William Selwyn Duncombe Cholcester Hen-Benedicte Hall Thomas Masters Thomas Escourt John George John Smith Richard Stephens William Morgan Edward Rich Andrew Barker Richard Whitemore William Stafford John Winter Fleetwood Dormer Samuel Codrington Thomas Chester Henry Syms Philip Shepard Richard Sackevil Giles Fettiplace Thomas Thynne Robert Pleydal Thomas James William Stratford Richard Dowdeswell Miles Rutter Thomas Horton Sylvanus Wood William Leigh Francis Norwood David Williams John Berrowe Tho. Seymour Will. Try Will. Bourchier Charles Cox John Guyse Rich. Berkley Rich. Daston Will. Jones Robert Oldsworth Richard Baugh John Robins Thomas Marriott Esquires Thomas Riche William Hinson VVilliam Lawrence William Dowdeswell Henry Browne Robert Heydon Nicholas Veale John Wyniat Thomas Walle William Thorpe John Driver Conway Whitterne VVilliam Winter Richard Machen John Coles Thomas Ayleway James Hawkins Christopher Woodward and the Bailiffs of Tewkesbury for the time being Anthony Sambich William Batson Sir John Baker Knight William Stafford junior City of Gloucester For the City and County of the City of Gloucester Henry Lord Herbert of Ragland Son and Heir apparent of Edward Marquis of Worcester Robert Feilding the present Mayor and the Mayor for the time being Sir William Morton Knight one of His Majesties Sergeants at Law Recorder of the said City Sir Edward Massey Knight Evan Seys Sergeant at Law John Grubham-Howe Edward Nurse Thomas Williams Esquires Henry Cugley James Stephens William Russel John Powel Thomas Yate Thomas Price John Woodward Anthony Arnold Henry Ockold John Wagstaffe and Henry Fowler Aldermen Hereford For the County of Hereford Henry Lord Herbert of Ragland son and heir apparent to Edward Marquis of Worcester John Lord Viscount Scudamore of the Kingdome of Ireland James Scudamore Wallop Brabazon Esquires Sir James Bridges Sir John Kerle Sir William Powell Sir Thomas Morgan Baronets Sir Thomas Hanbury Knight Sir Edward Harley Knight of the Bath Sir John Scudamore Baronet Sir Herbert Perrot Knight Sir Edward Hopton Sir Thomas Tomkins Sir Job Charleton Knights Fitz-William Coninsby Thomas Cornwall Thomas Whitney Herbert Aubrey senior John Price senior Thomas Price Walter Pye Roger Vaughan Herbert Westfaling Herbert Aubrey junior John Scudamore senior Humphrey Cornwall John Scudamore junior John Barnaby de Canon Pyon Reynald Graham Thomas Cox Edward Cornwall John Skippe Bennet Hoskins Richard Hopton Giles Bridges Thomas Geers Thomas Carpenter John Hoskins de Harewood Humphrey Howorth William Gregory Francis Unett John Hanford Humphrey Baskervill John Birch John Barnaby de Brockhampton John Vaughon John Booth de Hereford Thomas Harley Ambrose Elton Robert Pye Budhale Gwilline Richard Wigmore John Nourse Nicholas Walwyn VVilliam Whittington Thomas Rod John Booth de Braynton Thomas Wigmor William Westfaling Robert Rod Richard Reed Timothy Coles VVilliam Brydges Henry Milbourne Herbert Masters William Brome John Dancy John Gwyllym de Wellington Richard Walwyn de Hellens Humphrey Tayler de Withington John Kidley de Bromeley Thomas Marrer de Kings Capel Thomas Gomond de Kilpeck George Carver de Buthouse Esquires the Bailiff for the Borough of Leominster for the time being John Tomkins Richard Rodd de Rodd Edward Rodd Thomas Blaney Edward Freeman Thomas French and Thomas Duppa de Earsley Esquires City of Hereford For the City of Hereford Robert Simonds Esquire the present Mayor and the Mayor for the time
Thurban Gentleman and George Bowerman Esquire Sir John Henden Knight William Campion William Hammon John Andrews Edward Gulstone Reynald Peckham Esquires The Mayor of Sandwich for the time being Tobias Cleere Phineas Elwood John Verrier Valentine Jekin Jeoffrey Wells Jeoffrey Saket The Mayor of Dover for the time being Richard Jacob Nicholas Eaton William Eaton John Watson John Loome Richard Barley Walter Brames Esquires The Mayor of Rumney for the time being Robert Winill Jeremy Stanford Stephen Brett Thomas Chalcross The Mayor of Heith for the time being John Finch James Pashlie The Mayor of Feversham for the time being John Trouts Esquire John Upton Robert Watson Thomas Southouse The Mayor of Tenderden for the time being Edward Finch Esquire Captain Plomer Thomas Short The Bayliff of Lydd for the time being John Bateman Thomas Bedingfield Michael Childwicke The Mayor of Folkeston for the time being The Mayor of Fordwitch for the time being Thomas Bigg William Norton senior Thomas Norton junior Esquires and John Luckin Canterbury For the City of Canterbury The Mayor for the time being Sir William Man Sir Edward Master Knights Thomas Hardresse Esquire Recorder of the said City John Best Edward Master Squire Beverton Esquires William Stanley Henry Twyman Avery Hills and Leonard Browne Alderman Lancaster For the County of Lancaster Charles Earl of Ancram in the Kingdom of Scotland VVilliam Stanley William Spencer Esquires Sir Richard Houghton Sir George Midleton Sir Robert Binloss Sir Edward Stanley Sir Edward Mosley Sir Ralph Ashton of Whaley Sir Ralph Ashton of Midleton Baronets Sir Gilbert Ireland Sir Roger Bradsheigh Sir Henry Slater Sir Jeoffery Shakerley Sir John Heath Knights John Mollineux Richard Kirkby Roger Nowell Edward Fleetwood Henry Bainstre VVilliam Farrington Robert Holt Laurence Rawstorne Hugh Dickenson William Radley Nicholas Townley John Parker Nathaniel West Thomas Preston John Girlington Daniel Fleming Robert Rawlinson Jeoffrey Rishton Alexander Osbaldeston Alexander Rigby of Middleton John Lightbonne Edward Rigby Francis Lindley Thomas Bradill Christopher Parker Thomas Norres Richard Legh Richard Penington Richard Fleetwood of Rossall Thomas Butler Nicholas Mosley John Halsted of Banckhouse Major John Byrom Robert Heywood James Duckenfeild Matthew Richardson Peers Legh John Entwisley John Risley Cuthbert Ogle Henry Houghton John Birch of Ordsdall Bartholomew Hesketh Captain Byrom Thomas Ashton George Hilton Henry Porter Thomas Caruss William Fife Thomas Greenehalgh Thomas Holt junior Roger Keâ—non VVilliam Daniel Peter Adlington Ambrose Ludsay Thomas Ashurst VVilliam Kirkby William Banckes junior Richard Leigh Esquires John Aynsworth Thomas Leigh Nicholas Fezackerly Captain Brabin Captain Longworth Nicholas Pennington William Wall Seth Blackhurst James Hodgkinson Joseph Rigby Luke Hodgkinson Ralph Mercer Alexander Woodward Alexander Rigby of Layton John Tatlock Gentleman Edward Dobson Esquire The Mayor of Wiggan for the time being The Mayor of Lancaster for the time being The Mayor of Leverpoole for the time being The Mayor of Preston for the time being John Chandler Gent. Leicester For the County of Leicester Thomas Lord Beaumont of the Kingdom of Ireland John Lord Roos son and heir apparent to John Earl of Rutland Bennet Lord Sherard of the Kingdom of Ireland John Grey Esquire Sir George Villiers Sir Erasmus de la Fountain Sir Tho. Halford Sir Thomas Cave Sir Jeoffry Palmer Sir Woolstan Dixie Sir Henry Hudson sir George Prettyman Baronets sir William Hartop sir John Heath Knights John Crew Philip Sherard Henry Neville George Faunt Tho. Menye Matthew Babington William Noell William Boothby Samuel Jarvis John Fountaine Walter Rudings Thomas Armstone Roger Roe William Whalley Richard Brudenell William Roberts Captain Burton VVilliam Hartop Richard Orton John Needham of Osbaston John Morton Thomas Bradgate Richard Bradgate William Streete William Halford John Turvile William Belgrave John Needham VVilliam Skevington Iohn Hackett Thomas Stavely George Ashby Richard Verney John Cave Stanhope Whalley William Leake Iohn Danvers Thomas Bennet William Bent Roger Smith William Trimnel Henry Farneham Francis Chamberlain Robert Barnard Iohn Barwel Henry Bigland Neale Hewett William Cole Esquires Leicester For the Borough of Leicester William Callis Mayor of Leicester Sir John Prittiman Baronet Sir William Hartopp Knight Walter Rudeings Esquire Richard Palmer Richard Lincoln Alexander Coats Thomas Freeman Thomas Overing Thomas Brown Daniel Abney John Franks Francis Noble Gent. and Thomas Stavely Esquire Lincoln For the County of Lincoln and City and County of the City of Lincoln George Lord Viscount Castleton of the Kingdome of Ireland Robert Lord Willoughby of Earsby Son and Heir apparent to Mountague Earl of Lindsey Lord Great Chamberlain of England William Mountague William Pierpoint Esquires Sir Philip Tyrwhitt Sir Edward Barkham Sir Humphry Winch Sir Henry Massingbord Baronets Sir Francis Goodrick Sir John Moreton Sir Francis Dallison Knights Philip Tyrwhit Henry Fines William Metham Willam Marwood George Sanderson John Ogle Edward Merberry Esquires William Willoughby Esquire Sir John Mounson senior Sir John Bolles Sir William Hickman Sir Robert Dallison Sir Edward Lake Sir John Anderson Baronets Sir John Mounson junior Knight of the Bath Sir Thomas Meres Knight Charles Pelham senior Edward Tourney senior Cycil Turwhitt William Godfrey William Brownlow George Healey William Anderson John Farmary of Northrop Edward Tourney junior John Stow Esquires Sir Henry Bellasis Knight of the Bath Sir Thomas Bernardiston Sir William Wray Sir George Wynne Baronets Sir Edward Aiscough Knights Charles Pelham junior Jervas Hollis Master of Requests William Wentworth William Broxholme Marmaduke Dorrel junior William Bard Alexander Emerson John Nelthrop John Boswel Charles Newcomen Esquires Sir Thomas Ellis Baronet Sir Adrian Scroop Knight of the Bath Sir Martin Lister Sir Robert Christopher Knights John South John Bolles William Fitz-William John Hanby Isaac Knight Charles Radley William Woley William Ballet senior Robert Long Thomas Ely Dymocke Walpoole George Osney Henry Midlemore Esquires Sir Francis Fane Knight of the Bath George Sherard Esquire Sir Thomas Hussey Sir William Thorold Sir John Newton Sir Richard Rothwel Baronets Sir John Walpoole Knight Charles Dymocke Lewis Palmer Anthony Thorold Molleneux Disney Christopher Nevil Richard Brownlow Thomas Ellis William Lister John Hobson Richard Ryley Thomas Petchel Stephen Rothwel John Wilson Henry Stone Anthony Williams VVilliam Thornton VVilliam Rivett Esquires Robert Laming John Colthurst John Trafford Gentlemen Sir Michael Armin Sir John Brownlow Sir Robert Markham Sir VVilliam Brownlow Sir VVilliam Trollop Sir John Bucke Baronets Sir Thomas Orpe sir Christopher Clapham Knights Thomas Hatcher William Stafford Erasmus De Ligne John Hatcher Thomas Harrington William Blyth John Saunders William Savile Edward Skipwith Francis Wingfield Thomas Trollop Adam Cleypoole Philip Dalloe Thomas Skipwith William Hyde William Trollop William VVelby Lister Teigh Esquires Robert Garland Gentleman Thomas Grantham Peregrine Berley sir Anthony Oldfield Baronet sir Henry Heron Knight of the Bath sir Anthony Irby sir Robert Carr Knights sir VVilliam Humble Baronet sir John Brown Knight Thomas Thory Thomas Hall John Jay Charles Skipwith John Lockton Esquires Thomas Brown Gentleman Matthew VVoolmer
Anthony Oldefield Esquires John Empson Esquire Joseph VVhiting Charles Rushworth Samuel Jackson Anthony Hall Doctor Sturton Richard Balder Robert Bisle VVilliam Dickinson Gentlemen Adlard VVelby David Bonnel Esquires John Jelson Daniel Rhodes George Caverne Henry Morley Israel Jackson Gentlemen Thomas Marham Doctor Richer Robert Melish Esquires Richard Milner Gentleman the Mayor of the City of Lincoln for the time being and the four senior Aldermen viz. VVilliam Bishop Edward Blowe Richard Wetherel Robert Wrose the Mayor and the thrée senior Aldermen of Boston viz. John Ellis George Slee Samuel Beeston the Mayors of Stamford and Great Grimsby and the Alderman of Grantham for the time being Doctor Thomas Saunderson William Perkins and Richard Leemine Daniel Thorowgood Richard Butcher George Hill Gentlemen John Humphreys Esquire Charles Bawds Stephen Mason Esquire Samuel Burton John VVimberly Gent. London For the City of London sir John Lawrence Knight Lord Mayor and the Lord Mayor for the time being sir Thomas Adams sir Richard Brown sir Thomas Alleyn sir John Robinson sir VVilliam VVild Recorder Knights and Baronets sir Richard Chiverton sir John Frederick sir Anthony Bateman sir Thomas Soame sir Thomas Bludworth sir VVilliam Bolton sir VVilliam Peake sir VVilliam Turner sir Richard Ford sir Richard Reeves sir VVilliam Thompson sir Theophilus Biddulph sir John Shaw sir VVil. VVale Knights Francis Meynel Samuel Sterling Robert Hanson VVilliam Hooker Thomas Bonfoy Roger Hatton Nicholas Bonfoy John Bence Richard Shelbury Aldermen and the Aldermen and Recorder of the said City for the time being George Waterman Charles Doe Sheriffs and the Sheriffs for the time being John Jones John Jolliffe Thomas Thurgis Henry Dunstar VValter Lap Esquires James Abernoite Middlesex Sir Edward Turnor Knight Speaker of the Honourable House of Commons sir Thomas Ingram Chancellor of the Dutchy of Lancaster Hugh Lord Colrain in the Kingdom of Ireland sir Orlando Bridgman Chief Iustice of the Common-Pleas Henry Lord Cornebury son and heir apparent to Edward Earl of Clarendon Lord Chancellor of England Edward Russel George Mountague Christopher Hatton Thomas Coventry William Mountague Robert Spencer Henry Seymour Esquires sir Henry Bennet Principal Secretary of State John Ashburnham esquire one of his Majesties Bedchamber Edward Progers esquire one of his Majesties Bedchamber Thomas Elliot esquire one of his Majesties Bedchamber sir Harbottle Grimston Baronet Master of the Rolls sir Heneage Finch Knight and Baronet his Majesties Solicitor General sir Gilbert Gerard sir Thomas Fisher sir Henry Wood sir John Robinson sir Jeremy Whichcot sir William Waller sir Richard Franklin sir Joseph Ash sir Reginold Foster sir William Roberts sir Hugh Smithson Baronets sir John Brampston sir Robert Atkins sir John Bennet Knights of the Bath sir Henry Herbert sir Thomas Allen sir Nicholas Crisp sir Thomas Roe sir William Bateman sir Lancelot Lake sir Henry Wroth sir Francis Gerard sir John Glyn sir John Maynard sir John Heath Attorney of the Dutchy sir Winston Churchil sir John Cropley sir Charles Harbord sir Robert Hyde Lord Chief Iustice of the Kings Bench sir Edmond Boyer sir Thomas Clergies sir James Smith sir Ellis Leighton sir Thomas Player junior sir Thomas Byde sir William Rider sir Clifford Clifton sir Gilbert Gerard of Harrow sir Gilbert Gerard of St. James sir John Nicholas sir Philip Warwick sir Christopher Eyres sir John Birkenhead one of his Majesties Masters of Requests sir Cycil Wich sir Robert Car sir Edmond Barker sir John Colliton sir Edmond Peirce sir Justinian Lewin sir Thomas Escourt sir Edward Wingfield sir Henry Wernon sir Paul Painter Knights William Ashburnham Cofferer of his Majesties Houshold Sergeant Wynham Sergeant Waller Charles Cornwallis Humphrey Weld Francis Crawley Edmond Waller George Pit Sydney Bere John Carey Henry Barker John Brown Edwin Rich Francis Bloomer Joseph Ayloffe Thomas Swallow Richard Peacock Charles Cheyne John Trevor Francis Philips Robert Jacob William Hill John Heydon George Day George Marsh William Page Andrew Ellis John Page William Meggs Thomas Collet Ralph Hawtry Thomas Povey Giles Hungerford Thomas Lake Richard Dunton James Hawley Erasmus Moise Charles Pitfield Thomas Kendal Thomas Harrison Thomas Wharton John Jones Henry Osborn John Smith William Goldsborough Richard Abel John Wilford David Walter Richard Cheney Richard Procter James Norfolk John James John Fetherley William Northrey John Philips Auditor Edmund Warcup Roger Jennings Robert Child William Marshall Thomas Ardin Jasper Churchil Daniel Procter John Baldwin VVilliam Bowles VValter Bâ—othby Nicholas Ranton John Gouldsmith Henry Murrey John Hutchinson Edward Rich Robert Peyton Pawlet St. John VVilliam Dormer Edmond Draper Doctor VVilliam Quarterman esquires sir Thomas Bird one of the Masters of Chancery sir Frederick Hyde Sergeant at Law Robert Hanson Lestrange Colthrop esquires sir Charles Cotterel sir John Birkenhead Richard Atkins James Hambleton one of his Majesties Bed-chamber Edward Trussel Maximilian Bard VVilliam Harpham esquires Mr. Bathurst of Edmonton John Layney John Pawlet Mr. VVood of Littleton Mr. Roberts of Hayes John VValker Mr. Thomas Diconson of Hillingdon Robert Hampton Robert Shoredith Gentlemen Captain Harrington of Staynes Major John Bill Michael Holman Henry Row esquires Mr. Leigh of Greenford Mr. Claxton of Sudbury Mr. Brigginshal of Hayes Mr. Chute of VVilsdon Thomas Nevet Mr. Farrington of South-mims VVilliam Bockenham John Thorp John Norwood John Lloyd Gentlemen sir Richard Napier Robert Napier Tho. Henshaw Griffith Bodurda esquires sir Thomas Thorowgood Knight Frederick Cornwallis Francis Cornwallis and Henry Murrey Esquires Westminster For the City of VVestminster Thomas Lord Richardson Baron Cramond in the Kingdom of Scotland sir VVilliam Morrice Knight Principal Secretary of State sir Henry Bennet Principal Secretary of State sir Edward Nicholas Knight one of his Majesties most honourable Privy Councel George Mountague esquire sir Heneage Finch Knight and Baronet his Majesties Solicitor-General sir VVilliam Plaiters Baronet sir Robert Long sir Lancelot Lake sir Robert Pye sir Charles Harbord sir Cycil VVich Knights sir Edmond Pye Knight and Baronet sir John Cotton Baronet sir Henry Herbert sir John Nicholas Knight of the Bath sir Philip VVarwick sir Richard Everard sir Edward Filmer sir Allen Apsley sir Henry VVood sir Thomas Mâ—res sir John Talbot sir Charles Cotterel sir Thomas Higgons Knights sir Thomas Littleton Baronet sir VVilliam Poultney Knight sir John Bennet Knight of the Bath sir VVilliam VVheeler Baronet sir Thomas Clergies Knight sir John Birkenhead one of his Majesties Masters of Requests sir VVilliam Clerke sir Anthony Iâ—by sir Robert Howard Knights sir Edward Greavers Baronet sir John Baber Knight sir John Collaton Knight and Baronet sir Edward Broughton Baronet Iohn Ashburnham Bernard Greenvile Stephen Fox Cecil Tufton Iohn Trevor sir Richard Oately Reignald Graham Doctor VVilliam Quarterman esquires sir Theodore le Vaux sir Hugh Carteret Knights Colonel VVhitley George Pitts Richard Newman Mr. Dolbin Steward of VVestminster Robert Scawen Iohn Browne Thomas Povey Richard Atkins Richard Mason Thomas Coppin VVilliam Glascock Bulleyn Reymes Edmond-Bury Godfrey Francis Lucy Thomas Morrice Robert Filmer Matthew Lock Thomas Russel
Francis Cory Christopher Jay Suckling Jay Leonard Mapes Henry Clifton Clement Herne Nathaniel Showldham Richard Nixon Edmond Doyley John Thugton John Cock Tho. Browne of Elsing Tho. Corey John Kendall Lawrence Oxburgh John Shadwell Robert Coney Rob. Haughton Rich. Godfrey John Anguish Anthony Fisher Edward Barber Tho. Drury Nich. Rookewood Anth. Drury Robert Drury Tho. Talbot Nich. Styleman Jacob Preston Bassingbourne Gaudy Charles Gaudy VVilliam Davy of Ellingham Nathaniel Knevet Edmond Britiff Simon Britiff Tho. Wright of Kilverston Munford Spelman Edmond de Grey Tho. Wright of Ovington William Brampton and Robert Buxton Gentlemen Kings Lynn For the Burrough of Kings Lynn The Mayor for the time being Robert Steward Recorder Walter Kerby John Basset Thomas Greene John Bird Benjamin Holly Henry Bell William Wharton Thomas Robinson Thetford For the Borough of Thetford The Mayor for the time being sir John Holland and sir Will. Gaudy Baronets sir Allen Apsly Knight Maurice Shelton Esq John Kendall Robert Tyrrell Edmund Hunt Burrage Martin and Osmond Clerk Gentlemen Great Yarmouth For the Burrough of Great Yarmouth The Bayliffs for the time being sir Thomas Meadow Thomas Pufflet John Cubitt Richard Jermin John Hall Abraham Castell Thomas Gooch Nathaniel Ashby John Row George England John Woodroff Edmund Thaxter Arthur Bacon Aldermen For the City of Norwich The Mayor for the time being sir Joseph Payne Knight Francis Cory Esquire Recorder Hen. Watts John Rayley Bernard Church John Man John Salter Christopher Jay Richard Wenman John Osborne John Croshold Will. Haward Esquires The two Sheriffs for the time being Augustine Briggs Tho. Wisse Robert Bendish Richard Couldham John Larrance Hen. Hirne Francis Norris Matthew Markham John Manser Henry VVoods Henry VVatts junior Thomas Thacker Thomas Chickeringe Northumberland For the County of Northumberland Henry Lord Viscount Mansfeild Son and Heir apparent to William Marquess of Newcastle Thomas Grey Ralph Grey Edward VVidrington Esquires sir VVilliam Fenwick sir Ralph Delaval Baronets sir VVilliam Forster sir Henry VViddrington sir Francis Lyddal Knights Edward Grey of Heaton Robert Delaval Cuthbert Heron Ralph Grey of Bradford Thomas Forster of Etherston VVilliam VVidrington William Fenwick of Beywell Ralph Heborn of Heborn John Clark Robert Shafto of Benwell Ralph Jenison John Salkeld the elder of Rock Thomas Benwick of the Closhouse Daniel Collingwood of Branton Richard Stote VVilliam Delaval of Benwick John Rodham of Little Houghton Nicholas Whitehead and Ralph Anderson Esquires VVilliam Warren and Michael Widrington of Morpeth Gentlemen For the Town of Berwick upon Tweed Colonel Edward Grey the Mayor for the time being Thomas Watson Andrew Moore Mark Armorer John Duglas Aldermen and Anthony Afton Bailiff For the Town and County of Newcastle upon Tine the Mayor for the time being sir John Marley and sir Francis Anderson Knights John Clarke and Henry Brabant Esquires Oxon. For the County of Oxon Thomas Earl of Downe in the Kingdome of Ireland Henry Lord Viscount Cornebury son and heir apparent to Edward Earl of Clarendon Lord Chancellor of England Philip Lord Wenman Viscount Tuam in the Kingdom of Ireland James Herbert John Lovelace Esquires sir Anthony Cope sir Henry Lee sir Thomas Spencer sir Thomas Penniston sir William Walter sir Anthony Craven sir Thomas Cleyton Warden of Merton Colledge sir Thomas Chamberlain sir Compton Read Baronets sir VVilliam Fleetwood sir VVilliam Morton one of his Majesties Sergeants at Law sir John Glyn one of his Majesties Sergeants at Law sir Francis Wenman sir Edward Norris sir Henry Jones sir John Robinson Lieutenant of the Tower sir Timothy Terryl sir Thomas Tipin sir John Clarke sir Edmund Bray sir George Croke sir Littleton Osbaldiston sir Robert Jenkinson sir Allen Apsly sir VVilliam Glyn sir Philip Harecourt sir Thomas Cob sir Samuel Jones Knights sir Edward Hungerford Knight of the Bath James Herbert John Lovelace David Walter one of the Grooms of his Majesties Bed-chamber Lewellin Jenkins Doctor of Laws Principal of Jesus Colledge Broome Whorwood Richard Crooke William Cope James Hyde Doctor of Physick President of Magdalen Colledge Thomas Willis Doctor of Physick Thomas Saunders Anthony Libb Vincent Barry Henry Allnut John Stone Francis Martin Edmund Lenthal John Clarke VVilliam Lenthal VVilliam Legg one of the Grooms of his Majesties Bed-chamber VVilliam Dormer John Cartwright George Chamberlain Thomas Wheate VVilliam Sheppard William Cartwright Rowland Lacy Arthur Jones Henry Allworth Doctor of Laws Richard Hollaway Counsellour at Law John Clitherow Gentleman Robert Dormer Raynald Bray William Bayley Thomas Hord John Doyley Charles Hollaway Sergeant at Law Charles Hollaway Thomas Coventry Matthew Skinner Doctor of Physick Samuel Sandys junior William Gamcock Robert Vesey Robert Perrot junior _____ Sheppard of Rosewright Edward Vernon John West William Oakeley Esquires William Wright and John VVickham Gentlemen The Mayor of VVoodstock for the time being Master Alexander Johnson the Mayor of Banbury the Warden of Henley the Bailiffs of Burford and Chipping-Norton and the chief Magistrates to act in their several Corporations only For the Vniversity and City of Oxford the Vice-Chancellor and the two Proctors for the time being sir Thomas Cleyton Knight Warden of Merton Colledge Richard Bayley Doctor of Divinity President of St. Johns Colledge John Fell Doctor of Divinity Dean of Christ-Church John Meredith Doctor of Divinity Warden of All-Souls Colledge Thomas Barlow Doctor of Divinity Provost of Queens Colledge Thomas Yates Doctor of Divinity Principal of Brazen-Nose Colledge Walter Blandford Doctor of Divinity Warden of Wadham Colledge Luellin Jenkins Doctor of the Laws Principal of Jesus Colledge Joseph Crowther Doctor of Divinity Principal of Saint Mary Hall James Hyde Doctor of Physick Principal of Magdalen Hall Richard Lydal Doctor of Physick Thomas Elliot Doctor of Physick Henry Alworth Doctor of Laws Benjamin Cooper Master of Arts Richard Witt Batchelor of Law Nicholas Vilet Batchelor of Law Richard Holway Esquires Martin Lipyard John Cross VVilliam Flexney John Haslewood Joseph Goodwin William Day Richard Davis William Finch Matthew Leech The Mayor of the City for the time being sir Anthony Cope and sir Francis Wenman Baronets sir William Morton sir Sampson White Knights Broom Whorwood Sergeant Hollaway Charles Hollaway Richard Cooke Recorder George Low Esquires Francis Harris Leonard Bowman William Wright Roger Griffin and John White Aldermen John Harris William Bayley Francis Grenoway Francis Heyward John Townsend William Cornish Henry Mallory John Painton Town-clerk Robert Whorwood John Lamb Thomas Rowney Richard Prat and Edward Astin Gentlemen Rutland For the County of Rutland John Lord Roos Son and Heir apparent to John Earl of Rutland Bennet Lord Sherard of the Kingdom of Ireland Edward Noel Henry Noel Philip Sherard Esquires sir Thomas Mackworth Baronet sir Edward Heath Knight of the Bath sir Francis Mackworth sir Edward-Maria Wingfield sir Eusebius Pelsant Knights William Palmes Alexander Noell Christopher Browne Beaumont Bodenham Richard Halford Abel Barker Samuel Brown VVilliam Hyde Edward Faukner Robert Mackworth Esquires Charles Halford Ezekiel Johnson Gentlemen Salop. For the County of Salop VVilliam Pierripont
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
adjudg necessary for the carrying on and effecting the said work and to limit and appoint such certain dayes and places for the respective payments thereof to their Treasurer or Treasurers for the time being as they the said Vndertakers their heirs executors administrators or assigns or any three or more of them under their hands and seals shall appoint so as every of the said Vndertakers who shall at any time or times hereafter assess rate tax and charge the said sums of money be really then owner of two hundred and fifty Acres of Land or more within the said Fen. How the â—â—me may be levied And be it further Enacted upon default made by any person or persons so assessed rated taxed and charged as aforesaid in his or their respective payments to be limited and appointed as aforesaid by the space of three moneths after the time limited for payment thereof That it shall and may be lawful to and for any three or more of the said Adventurers their heirs executors administrators or assigns to bargain sell convey and assure all or so much of the said Defaulter or Defaulters Lands respectively within the said Fen for raising the sum or sums of money so assessed rated or charged as aforesaid to any other person or persons their heirs and assigns for such estate or estates as the said defaulter or defaulters had in him or them respectively at the time of the said default or defaults made as aforesaid as to them or any three or more of them the said Adventurers their heirs executors administrators or assigns shall seem meet subject nevertheless to the conditions and forfeitures in this Act contained and exprest And all and every Conveyance thereof is and shall be adjudged good and available in Law and equity against all and every such Defaulter and Defaulters respectively and against his or their respective heirs executors administrators and assigns so as the same be inrolled in the High Court of Chancery within six moneths after the making thereof How owners and commoners may improve and inclose their shares And be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That it shall and may be lawful for any person or persons Bodies Politick or Corporate their heirs and successors Owner or Owners of the Soil of the said Fens or Wastes or who may or ought to have Common in any of the same to improve set out inclose divide and sever such quantity or quantities of the said Fens or Wastes other then such of the same as by the tenure of this Act are appointed or allotted to the said Vndertakers as aforesaid as shall be proportionable to his or their respective Interest or to his or their Lands and Tenements whereunto or in respect whereof the said Common or Waste may or ought to be had or enjoyed and such quantity or quantities to have and to hold in severalty by and according to such Tenures Estate Right Title and Interest as such person or persons have or shall have in such Manors Lands and Tenements subject nevertheless to all the Powers and Liberties given by this Act to the said Trustees their heirs and assigns and the survivor of them for Dreyning the said Fens as if the said Lands had remained common and uninclosed leaving and allowing convenient passages and ways in and to the said Vndertakers ground in the said Fen. Who may determine of boundaries improvements and inclosures And it is further Enacted That the Boundaries of the said Wastes so to be inclosed Approvements and Inclosures shall from time to time and at all times upon request of any person or persons concerned be determined and adjudged and finally ended by the persons hereafter named that is to say Thomas Lord Beaumont of Cole-Orton Sir George Villiers of Bruxby Baronet Sir VVilliam Hartopp of Rotherby Knight VVilliam Hartopp of Little-Dalby Esquire Sir Henry Hudson of Melton-Mowbray Baronet Sir Edward Smith of Edmundthorpe Knight Richard Lister of Thorpe Esquire John Hacket of Ketleby Esquire William Gilbert of Melton-Mowbray Esquire all of the County of Leicester Baptist Lord Viscount Campden Sir Edward Heath of Cottesmore Knight of the Bath William Palmes of Ashwel Esquire Abel Barker of Hambleton Esquire Samuel Browne of Stockins Esquire Robert Mackeworth of Empingham Esquire Philip Sherard Esquire Alexander Noel of Whitwel Esquire Christopher Browne of Towlthorpe Esquire Edward Falkener of Uppingham Esquire Sir Thomas Mackeworth of Normanton Baronet Henry Noel Esquire of Exton Andrew Noel Esquire of Whitwel Charles Halford Esquire of Weston Thomas Pilkington Esquire of Belton Beaumont Bodenham Esquire of Ryhall and Henry Mackeworth Esq of Normanton all of the County of Rutland Mildmay Earl of Westmerland Obrian Lord Cockaine William Stafford Esquire of Blatherwicke Lewis Palmer Esq of Corlton Edward Palmer Esq of Stoake Walter Kirkham of Finshead Esq Christ Thursby Esq Humphrey Orme Esq Sir Henry Yelverton Baronet Tho. Dove of Upton Esq VVilliam Mountague Esq Francis Quarles Esquire George Quarles junior of Ufford Esq Francis Kirkham Esq of Finshead John Lynn Esq of Southwick all of the County of Northampton Robert Lord Willoughby of Erisby eldest Son to Mountague Earl of Lindsey Lord Great Chamberlain of England Sir Thomas Meres Knight Sir John Newton Baronet Sir Anthony Irby Knight Peregrine Bartue Esq Anthony Thorold of Marston Esq William Blythe of Straston Esq Philip Dallow of Bitchfield Esq Thomas Harrington of Boothby Esq Charles Bawdes of Somerby Esq Sir Edward Barkham Baronet all of the County of Lincolne or by any seven or more of them Which said persons or any seven or more of them are hereby constituted and appointed Commissioners for that purpose upon their view or examination of witnesses upon Oath which Oath they are hereby authorised to administer or both or other good and sufficient proof by matter of Record Writings or Evidences and hearing the parties concerned if they be present and desire it which determination and Iudgment being certified in writing under the hands and seals of the said Iudicature or any seven or more of them into the Petty-bag there to be filed and kept on Record shall be final and conclusive unto all parties Provided always That in case any person or persons Bodies Politick or Corporate Appeals in cases of adjudication shall find him or themselves agrieved with such Iudgment and determination of the said Iudicature and shall thereof within six Moneths next after the same appeal to any thirtéen or more other persons of the said Iudicature Then such determination as the said thirtéen more shall make being certified by writing under the hands and seals of the said thirtéen or more into the Petty-bag aforesaid there to be filed and kept on Record as aforesaid shall be final and conclusive to all parties the said former Iudgment or Determination notwithstanding And the Inclosures and Proportions so adjudged or decréed as aforesaid to such person or persons Bodies Politick and Corporate shall be held by him or them and his
and their heirs and successors respectively by and according to his and their tenures estate title and interest which he or they had in the Mannors Lands or Tenements for or in respect of which he or they claimed or inclosed the said quantity or quantities of the said Wastes as abovesaid Provided always and be it Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That the said Commissioners and every of them before he or they take upon him or them the execution of any the Powers or Authorities hereby given them other then the administring the Oath following to one another which they shall have Authority by this present Act to administer to one another shall take the Oath following viz. The oath to be taken by Commissioners I A. B. am not interessed in possession reversion or remainder of in or to the said Fens or any part thereof And shall and will without favour or affection hatred or malice truly and impartially according to the best of my skill and knowledg execute and perform all and every the Powers and Authorities in me established by this Act of Parliament Which Oath any one of the said Commissioners are hereby authorised to administer The places of the Commissioners â—â—tting And that the places where the said Commissioners shall sit to hear order and determine the matters referred to them by this Act shall be at the Towns of Stamford Market-Deeping or Spalding in the said County of Lincoln And the said Commissioners or any seven or more of them are hereby directed by Warrant under their hands and seals to declare the places and times of their méeting The same Warrant to be published in open Market in the said Towns of Stamford Market-Deeping and Spalding betwéen the hours of twelve and two upon some Market-day one and twenty dayes at least before the said time or times of méeting to the end all persons concerned may have sufficient time and notice to attend And shall have power and Authority by Warrant under the hands and seals of any thrée or more of them Their power and manner of proceeding to summon parties and witnesses to appear before them And in case any controversy or difference shall happen to arise betwéen or amongst the said Commissioners before any Iudgment or Determination given by them in the premisses touching or concerning the exposition of the words of this Act or the powers or authorities thereby to them given Then the Lord Chief Iustice of the Kings Bench the Lord Chief Iustice of the Common-Pleas and the Lord Chief Baron of his Majesties Court of Exchequer for the time being are hereby constituted and established a Iudicature and they or any two of them are hereby authorized to hear adjudg and determine such controversies and differences And their Iudgment or determination thereof certified under their hands seals shall be observed and shall be likewise certified together with the Iudgments and determinations of the said Commissioners into the Petty-bag there to be kept on Record as aforesaid CAP. XII The River Avon to be made Navigable from Christ-Church to the City of New-Sarum WHereas the making Navigable and passable with Barges Boats Lighters and other Vessels the River Avon in the Counties of Wilts and Southampton from the Town of Christ-Church in the said County of Southampton to the City of New-Sarum in the said County of VVilts And if néed require the making of a new Haven may with Gods blessing be of great advantage and benefit not only to the said Counties but also to the Publick by import and export of Commodities and increase of Commerce and Trade and of able Seamen and Watermen and most profitable and necessary for the said City of New-Sarum for the conveyance thereby of Fewel and other necessaries to the said City whereof there is now great scarcity and far greater is like to grow if some help therefore be not provided besides the extraordinary preservation of the High-ways in and near the said City and County Commissioners how to be appointed for making the river Avon navigable Be it therefore Enacted by the Kings 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 Lord Chancellor or Lord Kéeper of the Great Seal of England for the time being at any time after the end of this present Session of Parliament shall and may nominate appoint and authorize by Commission under the Great Seal of England such person or persons Bodies Politick and Corporate as to him shall séem fit and are willing to undertake the making Navigable the said River of Avon from the said Town of Christ-Church to the said City of New-Sarum And to make a new Haven if néed require for Ships and Vessels near the said Town of Christ-Church Which said Vndertakers so nominated and appointed as aforesaid are hereby authorized and shall have full power and authority by this present Act to make Navigable or passable by Barges Boats Lighters or other Vessels the said River of Avon from the said Town of Christ-Church to the City of New-Sarum aforesaid And for that purpose to cleanse scour and open the same and to cut or dig the Banks of the same and to take away or remove all Wears or other Impediments that may hinder Navigation either in sailing or haling of Boats with Horses Men or otherwise to amend or alter such Bridges and High-ways as may hinder the said Passages and Navigation and to open prepare and make all Wears Sasses Locks and Turn-pikes fit for the said Passage And likewise to cleanse scour open or cut and dig the Banks of any other Stream Brook Ditch or Water-course that shall to them séem convenient for the better making the said River Navigable and passable for Boats Barges Lighters and other Vessels And likewise to make and erect any Wharfs Sasses Locks Turnpikes or pens for Water in or near the said River or Passage that shall be fit or necessary for the same and to bring lay and work all Materials requisite for the making erecting and repairing of the said Locks or Turnpikes upon the said River or Passage and to cut such and so many new Channels and Trenches as to them shall séem convenient for altering the course of the said River of Avon in bringing the same to the City of New-Sarum as aforesaid as also for the bringing in any other River or Water-course into the said River and to do all other things necessary and convenient for the said River and Passages new Channels Wharfs Sasses Locks Wears Turnpikes Penns for Water and the said Bridges Ways and Passages and for the altering repairing kéeping using and amending of the same or any of them or any part of them from time to time hereafter as oft as néed shall require and also if néed require to make a commodious Haven and Port near the said Town of Christ-Church for the Entry
the East-Indies or any part beyond the Equinoctial shall be and are hereby Attainted of High Treason and shall suffer and forfeit to all intents and purposes as persons Attainted of High Treason ought to do CAP. VI. Damage Cleere taken away WHereas the moneys which are taken by Prothonotaries of Your Majesties Courts of Kings Bench and Common Pleas and by the Clerk of Your Majesties Court of Exchequer at Westminster and the Prothonotary of Your Majesties Court of Common Pleas at Lancaster and the Prothonotaries and Clerks of other Your Majesties Courts within the Realm of England and Dominion of Wales in the name of Damna Clericorum or Damage Cléere Damna Clericorum are an unnecessary charge and burden to all Your Majesties Subjects who have good cause and are put to Sue for Damages in Actions where Damages are recoverable For avoiding of which inconveniencies for the future and that Your Majesties Subjects may have an easier means for the recovery of their damages and just rights which are unjustly detained from them May it please Your most Excellent Majesty that it may be Enacted And the Kings most Excellent Majesty being willing upon all occasions to ease His Subjects of all unnecessary charges and burdens is graciously pleased That it be Enacted And be it Enacted by the Kings most Excellent Majesty Shall determine and not be taken after the 29 day or September 1672. 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 immediately from and after the Twenty ninth day of September which shall be in the year of our Lord One thousand six hundred seventy two no Damage Cléere shall by any Title or Precept whatsoever be due payable taken or received from any person or persons in any Action whatsoever sued or prosecuted in any of His Majesties Courts at Westminster or elsewhere within the Kingdom of England or Dominion of Wales by any Prothonotary Clerk or Clerks or other Officer or Officers of the said Courts respectively And that from and after the day and year aforesaid the said Fée of Damna Clericorum or Damage Cléere shall wholly cease and be for ever abolished in the said Courts And that if any Prothonotary Clerk or Clerks or other Officer in any of the said Courts The Penalty shall take or exact any sum or sums of money in the name of Damna Clericorum or Damage Cléere or any thing in lieu thereof after the day and year above mentioned Or if any of the said Prothonotaries Clerk or Clerks or their Deputies at any time before the said Twenty ninth day of September in the year aforesaid shall exact or take any Damage Cléere or sum of money Bond or Security in lieu thereof from any Plaintiff or Plaintiffs Demandant or Demandants in any Action where Damages have béen or hereafter shall be recovered in any of the said Courts or shall refuse or delay to Sign any Iudgement until Damage Cléere be first paid by the Plaintiff or Demandant which are not to be paid unless forth of the moneys levied from or paid by the Defendants as is herein after provided and mentioned He or they so offending shall forfeit treble the sum so taken exacted or demanded to the party or parties grieved to be recovered by Bill Plaint or Information in any of the said Courts wherein no Essoyn Protection or Wager of Law shall be allowed Provided and be it further Enacted That until the Nine and twentieth day of September which shall be in the year of our Lord God In what cases only they may be taken until the 29 September 1672. One thousand six hundred seventy and two and no longer the Damage Cléere shall be paid answered and allowed out of such sum and sums of money onely as shall be actually levied or otherwise paid by or from the Defendants and onely for the proportion of the Sum and Sums of money which shall be so levied or otherwise paid as aforesaid and no more or otherwise CAP. VII For a more speedy and effectual proceeding upon Distresses and Avowries for Rents FOrasmuch as the ordinary Remedy for Arrearages of Rents is by Distress upon the Lands chargeable therewith And yet nevertheless by reason of the intricate and dilatory proceedings upon Replevins that Remedy is become ineffectual For remedy thereof It is Enacted by the Kings most Excellent Majesty with the Advice and Assent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal Plaintiff in Replevin being nonsuit before issue joyned and Commons in this present Parliament Assembled and by Authority of the same That whensoever any Plaintiff in Replevin shall be Non-suit before Issue joyned in any Suit of Replevin by Plaint or Writ lawfully returned How the Defendant may Avow removed or depending in any of the Kings Courts at Westminster That the Defendant making a Suggestion in nature of an Avowry or Cognizance for such Rent to ascertain the Court of the cause of Distress The Court upon his Prayer shall award a Writ to the Sheriff of the County where the Distress was taken to enquire by the Oaths of Twelve good and lawful men of his Bayliwick touching the Sum in Arrear at the time of such Distress taken and the value of the Goods or Cattel distrained And thereupon notice of Fiftéen days shall be given to the Plaintiff or his Attorney in Court of the sitting of such Enquiry and thereupon the Sheriff shall enquire of the truth of the matters contained in such Writ by the Oaths of Twelve good and lawful men of his County And upon the Return of such Inquisition the Defendant shall have Iudgement to recover against the Plaintiff the Arrearages of such Rent in case the Goods or Cattel distrained shall amount unto that value And in case they shall not amount to that value then so much as the value of the said Goods and Cattel so distrained shall amount unto The Plaintiff nonsuit after Avowry made c. together with his full Costs of Suit and shall have Execution thereupon by Fieri facias or Elegit or otherwise as the Law shal require And in case such Plaintiff shal be nonsuit after Cognisance or Avowry made and Issue joyned or if the Verdict shall be given against such Plaintiff then the Iurors that are Impannelled or Returned to inquire of such Issue shall at the prayer of the Defendant inquire concerning the Sum of the Arrears and the value of the Goods or Cattel distrained And thereupon the Avowant or he that makes Cognisance shall have Iudgement for such Arrearages or so much thereof as the Goods or Cattel distrained amount unto together with his full Costs and shall have Execution for the same by Fieri facias or Elegit or otherwise as the Law shall require Iudgement upon Demurrer for the Avowant And be if further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That if Iudgement in any of the Courts aforesaid
nine hundred and two pounds fiftéen shillings and eight pence And all and every person or persons who shall be liable to or any wayes concerned or imployed in the assessing collecting levying receiving or paying of the Moneys by this Act imposed shall have like benefits advantages and discharges and shall be subject to like penalties and forfeitures in case of any neglect or refusal to pay their respective Assessment or to perform their respective duties as any other person or persons lyable unto or concerned or imployed in the assessing collecting levying receiving or paying any of the said former Assessments ought to have or be subject unto as fully and amply as if all and every the clauses matters and things to the said former Assessments relating had béen again in this Act repeated and Enacted The meeting of the Commissioners And be it further Enacted That the several Commissioners shall méet together at the most usual and common place of méeting vpon or before the Tenth day of January One thousand six hundred sixty seven to put this Act in Execution And that the said One hundred and twenty thousand nine hundred and two pounds fiftéen shillings and eight pence shall be assessed collected levied and paid unto the Receivers of the several Counties appointed or to be appointed by His Maâ—esty and by them answered and paid into his Majesties Exchequer upon or before the Fiftéenth day of February One thousand six hundred sixty and seven Anno XVIII Caroli II. Regis CAP. I. Moneys raised by a Poll and otherwise towards the Maintenance of the present War MOst Gracious Soveraign We Your Majesties most Obedient and Loyal Subjects the Commons now in Parliament Assembled having taken into our serious Consideration the many and urgent Occasions which at this time do press Your Majesty to an extraordinary Expence of Treasure for the Defence of Your Majesties Kingdoms and Dominions and in most thankful acknowledgment of Your Majesties just and tender Care of the welfare of Your People A Free Gift presented to his Majesty towards the carrying on the Warre Do most humbly present unto Your Majesty a Frée Gift of several Sums of money towards the carrying on of the present War to be Levied in such manner as is hereafter expressed and do beséech your Majesty to accept thereof And that it may be Enacted And be it Enacted by the Kings most Excellent Majesty by and with the Advice and Consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal and of the Commons in this present Parliament Assembled and by the Authority of the same That all and every person and persons Bodies Politique and Corporate Guilds or Fraternities within this Kingdom of England Dominion of Wales or Town of Berwick upon Tweed having any personal Estate in such Debts owing to them within the Realm or without Of Personal Estates in Debts and Moneys which he or they do not account or estéem as desperate over and besides such just Debts as he she or they shall bona fide owe or in ready moneys shall yield and pay unto His Majesty for every Hundred pounds in such Debts and ready Moneys the sum of Twenty shillings to be Assessed Imposed Levied and Collected in manner herein after mentioned Debts and Moneys not chargeable by this Act. Provided always That no sum of Money which hath béen lent unto his Majesty upon the Security of the Act Passed at Oxford in the Seventéenth year of his Majesties Reign entituled An Act for granting the Sum of Twelve hundred and fifty thousand pounds to the Kings Majesty for His present further Supply or lent by the City of London upon the Security of His Majesties Revenue arising by Hearth-money 17 Car. 2. cap. 1. at the rate of Sir per Cent. and which at the time of the execution of this present Act shall be unpaid nor any sum of money which shall be lent unto his Majesty upon the Security of this present Act or upon the Security of any other Act of Parliament passed or to be passed during this present Session of Parliament at the rate of Sir per Cent. shall be Rated or Assessed by vertue of this Act Any thing herein contained to the contrary notwithstanding Commissioners and Officers chargeable And be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That all and every person and persons Commissioner or Commissioners having using or exercising any Office Place or publick Imployment whatsoever such persons who are or shall be in Muster and Pay at Land or Sea onely excepted and all and every their Deputies Agents Clerks Secondaries Substistutes and other their inferiour Ministers and Servants whatsoever who are already Taxed in and to the said Monethly Assessment for and in respect of their Offices Agencies and Imployments shall likewise pay vnto his Majesty over and above the several sums with which they are or shall be Charged in or to the said Monethly Assessment the sum of Twelve pence for every Twenty shillings which he or they do receive in one year by vertue of any Fées Profits Perquisites or other Advantages to him or them accruing or by reason or occasion of their several Offices Agencies and Imployments And such who are not already Taxed in and by the said Monethly Assessment for and in respect of their Commissions Offices Agencies and Imployments shall yield and pay unto His Majesty the full sum of Thrée shillings for every Twenty shillings which he or they do receive in one year by vertue of any Fées Profits Perquisites or other advantages to him or them accruing or by reason or occasion of their several and respective Commissions Offices Agencies and Imployments The said several sums of Twelve pence in every Twenty shillings and Thrée shillings in every Twenty shillings to be Assessed Imposed Levied and Collected in such manner as is herein after mentioned Allowing to every such Officer and Commissioner one Third part of the Annual Salary or Sum of money he shall so receive for and towards his or their charge of executing any such Commission Office or Place before mentioned And be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid Pensions and Stipends from his Majesty That all and every other person and persons having or claiming to have any Pension or yearly Stipend or Annuity by vertue of any Gift or Grant from His Majesty under his Great Seal or Privy Seal shall pay unto his Majesty the sum of Thrée shillings for every Twenty shillings by the year so given or granted as aforesaid to be Assessed Imployed Levied and Collected in such manner as is herein after mentioned And be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That all Sergeants at Law Counsellors Sergeants at Law Counsellors Attorneys Sollicitors Scriveners Advocates Proctors Notaries Physitians Attorneys Sollicitors and Scriveners and all Advocates Proctors and publick Notaries and all and every person and persons practising the Art of Physick shall pay unto His Majesty the sum of Two shillings
upon this Act may be Assigned over And be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That every person or persons to whom any moneys shall be due by vertue of this Act after Warrant or Order entred in the Book of Register aforesaid for payment thereof his Executors Administrators or Assigns by Indorsement of his Order or Warrant may assign and transfer his Right Title Interest and Benefit of such Warrant or Order or any part thereof to any other which being notified in the Office of the Auditor of the Receipt aforesaid and an entry and memorial thereof also made in the Book of Registry aforesaid for Warrants which the Officers shall on request without Fée or charge accordingly make shall intitle such Assignée his Executors Administrators and Assigns to the benefit thereof and payment thereon And such Assignée may in like manner Assign again and so Toties quoties and afterwards it shall not be in the power of such person or persons who have made such Assignments to make void release or discharge the same or any the moneys thereby due or any part thereof Persons sued for executing this Act may plead the general issue And be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That if any Action Plaint Suit or Information shall be commenced or prosecuted against any person or persons for what he or they shall do in pursuance or in execution of this Act such person or persons so sued in any Court whatsoever shall or may plead the general Issue Not guilty and upon any Issue joyned may give this Act and the special matter in Evidence And if the Plaintiff or Prosecutor shall become Nonsuit or forbear further prosecution or suffer Discontinuance or if a Verdict pass against him the Defendant and Defendants shall recover their treble Costs for which they shall have the like remedy as in any Case where Costs by the Law are given to Defendants CAP. II. Cattel may not be imported from Ireland and other parts beyond the Seas nor Fish taken by Foreigners WHereas by an Act of this present Parliament entituled An Act for the Encouragement of Trade amongst other things some Provision was made for the preventing of coming in of vast Numbers of Cattel 1◠Car. 2. cap. 5. Stat. 3. whereby the Rents and Values of the Land of this Kingdome were much fallen and like dayly to fall more to the great Prejudice Detriment and Impoverishment of this Kingdom which nevertheless hath by experience béen found to be ineffectual and the continuance of any Importation either of the Lean or Fat Cattel dead or alive herein after specified not onely Vnnecessary but very Destructive to the welfare of this Kingdome 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 That such Importation from and after the second day of February Importation of Cattel a common Nusance in this present year One thousand six hundred sixty and six is a publick and common Nusance and shall be so adjudged déemed and taken to be to all intents and purposes whatsoever And that if any great Cattel Shéep or Swine or any Béef Pork or Bacon except for the necessary Provision of the respective Ships or Vessels in which the same shall be brought not exposing the same or any part thereof to Sale shall from and after the said second day of February by any wise whatsoever be Imported or brought from beyond Seas into this Kingdom of England Dominion of Wales or Town of Berwick upon Tweed That then it shall and may be lawful for any Constable The Penalty Tything-man Headborough Church-wardens or Overséers of the Poor or any of them within their respective Liberties Parishes or Places to take and seize the same and kéep the same during the space of Eight and fourty hours in some publick or convenient place where such Seizure shall be made within which time if the Owner or Owners or any for them or him shall make it appear unto some Iustice of the Peace of the same County where the same shall be so seized by the Oath of two credible Witnesses which Oath the said Iustice of Peace is hereby impowred and required to administer That the same were not Imported from Ireland or from any other place beyond the Seas not herein after Excepted after the said second day of February Then the same upon the Warrant of such Iustice of Peace shall be delivered without delay But in default of such Proof and Warrant then the same to be forfeited One half thereof to be disposed to the use of the Poor of the Parish where the same shall be so found or seized the other half to be to his or their own use that shall so seize the same And for the better encouragement of the Fishery of this Kingdom Be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That if any Ling Herring Cod or Pilchard fresh or salted Encouragement of Fishery dryed or bloated or any Salmons Eels or Congers taken by any Foreigners Aliens to this Kingdom shall be Imported uttered sold or exposed to sale in this Kingdom That then it shall and may be lawful for any person or persons to take and seize the same The one half thereof to be disposed of to the use of the Poor of the Parish where the same shall be so found or seized the other half to his or their own use which shall so seize the same Provided always That nothing in this Act shall be construed to hinder the Importation of Cattel from the Isle of Man in this Kingdom of England Isle of Man so as the number of the said Cattel do not excéed Six hundred Head yearly And that they be not of any other Bréed then of the Bréed of the Isle of Man And that they be landed at the Port of Chester or some of the Members thereof and not elsewhere This Act to continue until the end of Seven years and from thence to the end of the First Session of the next Parliament CAP. III. A former Act for preventing of Theft and Rapine upon the Northern Borders of England Continued WHereas an Act was made in the Fourtéenth year of the Reign of our Soveraign Lord the King that now is entituled 14 Car. 2. cap. 22. An Act for preventing of Theft and Rapine upon the Northern Borders of England which Act is very near expiring and hath béen found very necessary for the preservation of those places from that great number of Lewd Disorderly and Lawless persons that usually frequented thereabouts 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 That the said Act and every Clause and Clauses therein contained and all and every the Powers and Authorities thereby given be continue and remain
and Sewers about London and Westminster shall be repaired and kept and several Streets enlarged 13 Car. 2. 2. Stat. 3. 2 The repairing and enlarging High-ways throughout the Kingdom 14 Car. 2. 6. How the High-ways in the Counties of Hertford Cambridge and Huntington shall be repaired 15 Car. 2. 1. 16 17 Car. 2. 10. Hospitals See Leases Hunting See Forest and Deer JEoâ—ailes See Delays Indempnity See Pardon Ireland 1 Several Statutes for Reducing the Rebels in Ireland 17 Car. 1. 33. c. EXP. Judgment See Execution Delays Error Judicial proceedings 1 Which Process Judicial proceedings in the late times be made good and which not 12 Car. 2. 3. 12 Car. 2. 12. Jurors 1 Of what ability in Free-hold Lands Jurors for tryal of Issues shall be 16 17 Car. 2. 3. 2 No party-Jurors in tryals for Customs due upon Merchandize 14 Car. 2.11 3 Challenges of Jurors who are Lessees for lives ibid. 4 Issues lost by Jurors shall not be saved but by Order of the Judge 16 17 Car. 2. 3. See Lancaster King WHat Rates Inn-keepers shall take for provisions for the Kings Retinne in his Progress 13 Car. 2. 8. 2 See Carriages Knighthood 1 None shall be compelled to take the Order of Knighthood 17 Car. 1. 20. 2 The Kings Person and Government preserved against Treason and Seditious persons 13 Car. 2. 1. See Treason Lancaster 1 HOw Jury-men shall be summoned in the Dutchy of Lancaster 16 17 Car. 2. 3. See Dutchy Leases 1 What Leases to be made by the King of the Dutchy Lands in Cornwal shall be good and confirmed 1 Car. 1. 2. 2 Leases and Grants from Colledges and Hospitals confirmed 12 Car. 2. 31. 3 Leases made by the Master of the Rolls shall be good 12 Car. 2. 36. 4 Leases by the King of Lands and Tenements of the Dutchy of Cornwall confirmed and made good 13 Car. 2. 4. Stat. 2. See Estates Leather 1 The Exportation of Leather and Raw Hides out of England restrained 14 Car. 2. 7. 2 Exportation of Leather declared a Common Nusance ibid. 3 Leather used within London or 3. miles shall be searched and allowed by the Wardens of the Curriers ibid. Liberties 1 Petition and Declaration of divers Liberties of the People called the Petition of Right 3 Car. 1. London 1. Lights shall be hanged forth by the Inhabitants in the Streets in Winter 14 Car. 2. 2. 2. A judicature erected for hearing and determining all differences touching Houses burned and demolished in the Fire there 19 Car. 2. 2. 3. Rules setting forth the order and form to be observed in the Street and re-building of the City of London 19 Car. 2. 3. Madder 1 THe Statute for importing Madder pure and unmixed repealed 15 Car. 2. 16. Manufactures 1 Importing of Forreign Bonelace Cutwork imbroidery Fringe Bandstrings Buttons and Needle-work prohibited 14 Car. 2. 13. 2 The Silk-throwers London incorporated by Patent and the making of the manufacture regulated 14 Car. 2. 5. 3 The manufacture of making Linnen Cloth and Tapistry encouraged 15 Car. 2. 5. Marriages 1 The confirmation of divers Marriages and how issues upon such Marriages shall be joyned and tryed 12 Car. 2. 33. Marriners and Seamen See Ships and shipping Muket See Clerk of the Market Master of the Rolls See Leases Measures See Weights Merchants and Merchandize 1 Merchants strangers shall be well entreated 12 Car. 2. 4. 2 No Tax may be imposed upon Merchandize but by authority of Parliament ibid. 3. Aliens may not exercise the Trade of Merchants or Factors in Asia Africa or America 12 Car. 2. 8. 4 Encouragement of Merchants and Trade 14 Car. 2. 23. 5 Additional matters concerning pollicies of assurance amonst Merchants 14 Car. 2. 23. 6 Aliens Infants may not be Merchants 14 Car. 2. 11. See Ships and shipping Militia See Souldiers Minister 1 Certain Ministers confirmed and others restored to their Benefices 12 Car. 2. 17. Money 1 The penalty for melting currant Silver money 14 Car. 2. 31. 2 How Forreign Coyn and Bullion may be exported 15 Car. 2. 7. 3 Silver-plate or Gold brought to the Mint may be coyned gratis See Coynage Mos -Troopers See Scotland NAvy and Navigation See Ships and Shipping Norwich Stuffs 1. The making Stuffs in Norfolk and Norwish regulated 14 Car. 2. 5. Nusances 1 Nusances in High-ways to be removed 14 Car. 2. 6. 2 Transporting of Leather and Raw-hides declared a common Nusance 18 Car. 2. 1. 3 Importation of Cattel out of Ireland declared a common Nusance 14 Car. 2. 7. Oath THe Oath Ex officio taken away 17 Car. 1. 11. and 13 Car. 2. 12. 2 Certain penalties upon persons refusing to take a lawful oath 13 Car. 2. 1. stat 3. See Quakers See Dutchy Orders and Ordinances of Parliament See Parliament Pardon 1 THe Kings most gracious free and general Pardon indemnity and oblivion 12 Car. 2. 11. 2 All moneys and goods received in late usurpation not pardoned vested in the King 13 Car. 2. 3. 3 The pains and forfeitures upon divers offenders excepted in the act of general pardon 13 Car. 2. cap. 15. 4 The penalties upon Accomptants to the King not pardoned by the Act of Oblivion who shall not proceed and perfect their Accompts within a certain time 14 Car. 2. 16. Parliament 1 The Parliament begun 3 Nov. 16 Car. 1. declared to be dissolved and the penalty upon persons that shall hold or declare the contrary 12 Car. 2. 1. 2 Orders or ordinances of one or both houses of Parliament how not binding without the King 13 Car. 2. 1. 3 Priviledges of debates in Parliament for repeal or alteration of Laws or redress of publique greivances 13 Car. 2. 1. 4 Parliaments shall be held once in three years at the least 16 Car. 2. 1. 5 The Parliament of 12 Car. 2. confirmed 12 Car. 2. 1. Petition 1 The Petition of Right 3 Car. 1. 2 See Ecclesiastical c. Num. 5. 3 None may make unlawful Assemblies upon pretence of petitioning the King or Parliament to alter the Law c. 13 Car. 2. 5. Pilchard Fishing See Fishing Plague See Prisoners Poor 1 The occasion of the encrease of Poor and for their better relief 14 Car. 2. 12. 2 A Work-house at Exeter for relief of the poor there 19 Car. 2. 19. 3 Poor Officers and Souldiers relieved 14 Car. 2. 9. Poll-Money 1 Poll-money according to several Dignities and Degrees granted to His Majesty 18 Car. 2. 1. 19 Car. 2. 6. Pollices of Assurances See Merchants Ports See Dover Post-Office 1 A Post-Office erected for carriage and the several Prices of Letter from Inland and forreign places 12 Car. 2. 35. 2 The penalty upon Post-masters and Officers neglecting or not doing their Duties ibid. 3 The profits of the Post-Office setled upon his Royal Highness the Duke of York in tail 15 Car. 2. 14. Poundage See Tunnage Printing See Books Prize-Goods 1 Direction for prosecution of such as are accomptable for prize-goods 14 Car. 2. 14. 16
Sir Seymour Shirley Baronet An Act for Setling the Moyety of the Mannor of Iron Acton on Sir John Pointz An Act for Setling an Estate in Trust for the benefit of Mistress Elizabeth Pride and her Children An Act for the Ascertaining the Bounds of the several Rectories of Swaffham St. Ciriac and of Swaffham St. Maries within the Town of Swaffham Prior in the County of Cambridge and for the Uniting of the two Churches there An Act for the Restoring of Francis Scawen Gent. in Bloud An Act for Naturalizing Dame Mary Frazer and others An Act to Enable a Sale of Lands for payment of the Debts of Henry Kendall Esquire An Act for Setling part of the Lands of Henry Mildmay Esquire deceased for payment of his Debts and making Provision for his Children An Act to Enable Leicester Grosvenor and his Trustees to Sell certain Lands for payment of Debts Anno Reg. CAROLI Regis Angliae Scotiae Franciae Hiberniae Primo AT the Parliament begun at Westminster the Eighteenth day of June Anno Dom. 1625. in the first year of the Reign of our most gracious Soveraign Lord CHARLES by the grace of God of Great Britain France and Ireland King Defender of the Faith c. And there continued untill the Eleventh day of July following and then adjourned until the first day of August following unto Oxford To the high pleasure of Almighty God and to the Weal publick of this Realm were enacted as followeth CAP. I. There shall be no Assemblies for unlawful Pastimes upon the Lords Day FOrasmuch as there is nothing more acceptable to God than the true and sincere Service and Worship of him according to his holy Will and that the holy kéeping of the Lords Day is a principal part of the true Service of God which in very many places of this Realm hath béen and now is prophaned and neglected by a disorderly sort of people in exercising and frequenting Bear-baiting Bull-baiting Enterludes common Playes and other unlawful Exercises and pastimes upon the Lords Day And for that many quarrels blood-sheds and other great inconveniences have grown by the resort and concourse of people going out of their own Parishes to such disordered and unlawful exercises and pastimes neglecting Divine Service both in their own Parishes and elsewhere Be it enacted by the Kings most excellent Majesty the Lords Spiritual and â—emporal and the Commons in this present Parliament assembled and by the authority of the same Vnlawful Writings and Pastimes on the Lords Day forbidden That from and after forty dayes next after the end of this Session of Parliament there shall be no méetings assemblies or concourse of people out of their own Parishes on the Lords Day within this Realm of England or any the Dominions thereof for any sports and pastimes whatsoever nor any Bear-baiting Bull-baiting Enterludes common Plays or other unlawful exercises and pastimes used by any person or persons within their own Parishes Every person using any unlawfull pastimes on the Lords Day shall forfeit 3 s. 4 d. to the poor of the Parish and that every person or persons offending in any the premisses shall forfeit for every offence thrée shillings four pence The same to be employed and converted to the use of the poor of the Parish where such offence shall be committed And that if any one Iustice of the Peace of the County or the chief Officer or Officers of any City Borough or Town corporate where such offence shall be committed upon his or their view or confession of the party or proof of any one or more witness by oath which the said Iustice or chief Officer or Officers shall by vertue of this Act have authority to minister shall find any person offending in the premisses the said Iustice or chief Officer or Officers shall give Warrant under his or their hand and seal to the Constables or Church-wardens of the Parish or Parishes where such offence shall be committed After conviction by Warrant from a Iustice c. the Constables c. may levy the Pâ—naâ—â—s c. General â—ssâ—â— Limitation of this actâ—on The Ecclesiastical â—â—â—â—â—diction 〈◊〉 abridgeâ— to levy the said penalty so to be assessed by way of distress and sale of the goods of every such offendor rendring to the said offendors the overplus of the money raised of the said goods so to be sold And in default of such distress that the party offending be set publickly in the stocks by the space of thrée hours And that if any man be sued or impeached for execution of this Law he shall and may plead the general Issue and give the said matter of Iustification in evidence Provided That no man be impeached by this Act except he be called in question within one moneth next after the said offence committed Provided also That the Ecclesiastical Iurisdiction within this Realm or any the Dominions thereof by vertue of this Act or any thing therein contained shall not be abridged but that the Ecclesiastical Court may punish the said offences as if this Act had not béen made This Act to continue until the end of the first Session of the next Parliament and no longer 3 Car. 4. continued until the end of the first Session of the next Parliament Stat. 3 Car. 1. 17 Car. cap. 4. continued until other Order by Parliament CAP. II. All Leases to be made within three years by the Kings Majesty of the Dutchy-Lands of Cornwall confirmed WHereas the King our Soveraign Lord being in the life-time of his Royal Father of blessed memory seized of the said Dukedom of Cornwall did bargain and contract for Leases and Estates to be made of divers Messuages Lands Tenements and Hereditaments parcel of the said Dukedom of Cornwall which Leases and Estates his Majesty was enabled to have made in his Fathers life-time by an Act of Parliament made in the last Session of Parliament intituled An Act to enable the most excellent Prince Charles to make Leases of Lands 21 Jac. 29. parcell of his Highness Dutchy of Cornwall or annexed to the same And because his Majestie having received divers Fines and summes of Money according to the said Contracts and having entred into Treaty with divers others for like Estates the finishing of which Contracts and making the said Leases was prevented by his Majesties access to the Imperial Crown of this Realm is graciously pleased for the good of his poor Tenants of the said Dutchy Lands to procéed to the full accomplishment of the Contracts and Leases of the premisses All Leases to be made within three years by the King of the Dutchy Lands of Cornwall if all be good Be it therefore Enacted by our said Soveraign Lord the King the Lords Spiritual and Temporal and Commons in this present Parliament assembled and by the Authority of this present Parliament That all Leases to be made within the space of thrée years next ensuing by our said Soveraign Lord the King by Letters
Patents Indentures or other Writings under his great Seal of England or Seal of the Court of Exchequer of any Manors Lands Tenements or Hereditaments parcel of the possessions of the said Dutchy of Cornwall or annexed to the same shall be good and effectual in Law according to the purport and content of the said Leases against our said Soveraign Lord the Kings Maiesty his Heirs and Successors and against all and every person or persons that shall hereafter have inherit or enjoy the said Dukedom of Cornwall by force of any Act of Parliament or other limitation whatsoever Except they be made for above 3â— years or 3 lives c. Provided alwayes That every such Lease so to be made of any Manors Lands Tenements or Hereditaments in possession shall be made but for thrée Lives or fewer or for one and thirty years or under or some other tearm of years determinable upon one two or thrée lives and not above And if such Leases be made in reversion That then the same together with the Estates in possession do not excéed thrée Lives or the terme of one and thirty years and not in any wise dispunishable of waste The ancient Rent to be reserved and if none anciently a reasonable Rent And so as upon every such Lease shall be reserved the ancient or most usual rent or such rent as hath béen yielded or payed for the greater part of twenty years next before the making of the said Leases and shall be reserved due and payable by or to him or her that shall have the Inheritance or other Estate of the said Manors Lands Tenements or Hereditaments And where no such rent hath béen reserved or payable that then upon every such Lease there shall be reserved a reasonable rent not being under the twentieth part of the clear yearly value of the Manors Lands Tenements or Hereditaments contained in such Lease All covenants c. contained in such Leases shall be good And be it further Ordained and Enacted by Authority of this present Parliament That all Covenants Conditions and Reservations and other Agréements contained in every Lease so to be made as aforesaid shall be good and effectual in Law according to the words and contents of the same as well for and against them to whom the reversion of the same Manors Lands Tenements or Hereditaments shall come as for and against them to whom the said Leases shall come respectively As if our said Soveraign Lord the Kings Majesty at the time of the making of such Covenants Conditions and Reservations and other Agréements were seized of an absolute and indefeizible Estate in Fée-simple in the same Manors Lands Tenements or Hereditaments Saving always to all and every person and persons The right of others saved bodies Politick and Corporate their heirs and successors executors administrators and assigns other then our said Soveraign Lord the Kings Majestie and his Heirs and all and every person and persons that shall hereafter have inherit or enjoy the said Dukedom of Cornwall by force of any Act of Parliament or other limitation whatsoever all such rights titles estates customs interests terms claims and demands whatsoever of what kind nature or quality soever of in to or out of the said Manors Lands Tenements or Hereditaments or any of them as they or any of them had or ought to have had before the making of this Act to all intents and purposes and in as large and ample manner and form as if this Act had never béen had or made This Act or any thing therein contained to the contrary notwithstanding CHAP. III. An Act for the Ease in obtaining of Licenses of Alienation and in the Pleading of Alienations with Licence or of Pardons of Alienations without Licence in the Court of Exchequer or elsewhere Stat. 12. Car. 2. cap. 24. All Fines Seizures and Pardons for Alienations and all incidents thereunto are taken away and discharged CHAP. IV. Forreigners as well as Inhabitants shall not be permitted to tipple in Inns Ale-houses c. 21 Jac. 5. WHereas in the last Parliament it was Enacted That if any person or persons whatsoever his or their haâ—itation or abiding be should after be found upon view or his own confession or proof of one witness to be tippling in any Inn Ale-house or Victualling-house 1 Jac. 5. 4 Jac. 5. such person or persons should be thenceforth adjudged and construed to be within the Statutes of the first and fourth years of the late Kings Majesties reign King James of famous memory The one intituled An Act to restrain the inordinate haunting of tippling in Inns Ale-houses and other Victualling-houses And the other intituled An Act to repress the odious and loathsom sin of Drunkenness as if he or they had inhabited and dwelled in the City Town Corporate Market town Village or Hamlet where the Inn Alehouse or Victualling-house was or should be where he or they should be so found tippling should incur the like penalty and the same to be in such sort levied and disposed as in the said Act is expressed concerning such as there inhabit but no punishment by any or either the said Acts or by any other Statute is inflicted upon the Inn-kéeper Alehouse-kéeper or Victualler that permits or suffers such person or persons not there inhabiting to tipple in his Inn Ale-house or Victualling-house The Inn-keeper c. that permits a forreigner to tipple in his house shall â—â—eâ—r the penalty provided by 2 Jac. â— For remedy whereof Be it Enacted That every Inn-kéeper Alehouse-kéeper and other Victualler that at any time after the end of this Session of Parliament shall permit and suffer any person or persons not inhabiting in the City Town Corporate Market town Village or Hamlet where such Inn Alehouse or Victualling-house is or shall be to tipple in the said Inn Alehouse or Victualling-house contrary to the true intent of any or either of the said former Statutes the said Inn-kéeper Alehouse-kéeper and Victualler so offending shall incur the same penalty and in such manner to be proved levied and disposed as in the former Statute of the first year of his said late Majesties reign is appointed for permitting such to tipple as dwell in the same City Town corporate Market town Village or Hamlet And be it further enacted That the kéepers of Taverns Vintners and Victuallers to be within this and the other Statutes and such as do sell Wine in their houses and do also kéep Inns or Victualling in their houses shall be taken to be within the said two former Statutes and also within this Statute CAP. V. Three entire Subsidies granted by the Spiritualty EXP. CAP. VI. Two entire Subsidies granted by the Temporalty EXP. CAP. VII This Session of Parliament by reason of the encrease of the Sickness and other inconveniencies of the season requiring a speedy Adjournment nevertheless shall not determine by his Majesties Royal assent to this and some other Acts. EXP. ANd
any thing contrary to the purport true intent and meaning of this Law Then he or they shall for such offence forfeit the sum of Five hundred pounds of lawful Money of England unto any party grieved his Executors or Administrators who shall really prosecute for the same and first obtain Iudgment thereupon to be recovered in any Court of Record at Westminster by Action of Debt Bill Plaint or Information wherein no Essoin Protection Wager of Law Aid-Prayer Priviledg Injunction or Order of restraint shall be in any wise prayed granted or allowed nor any more then one Imparlance And if any person against whom any such Iudgment or Recovery shall be had as aforesaid shall after such Iudgment or Recovery offend again in the same then he Second offence or they for such offence shall forfeit the sum of One thousand pounds of lawful money of England unto any party grieved his Executors or Administrators who shall really prosecute for the same and first obtain Iudgment thereupon to be recovered in any Court of Record at Westminster by Action of Debt Bill Plaint or Information in which no Essoin Protection Wager of Law Aid-Prayer Priviledg Iniunction or Order of Restraint shall be in any wise prayed granted or allowed nor any more then one Imparlance And if any person against whom any such second Iudgment or Recovery shall be had as aforesaid shall after such Iudgment Third offence or recovery offend again in the same kind and shall be thereof duly convicted by Indictment Information or any other lawful way or means that such person so convicted shall be from thenceforth disabled and become by vertue of this Act incapable Ipso facto to bear his and their said Office and Offices respectively and shall be likewise disabled to make any Gift Grant Conveyance or other disposition of any of his Lands Tenements Hereditaments Goods or Chattels or to take any benefit of any Gift Conveyance or Legacy to his own use And every person so offending shall likewise forfeit and lose unto the party grieved Treble damages to the party grieved by any thing done contrary to the true intent and meaning of this Law his treble damages which he shall sustain and be put unto by means or occasion of any such Act or thing done the same to be recovered in any of his Majesties Courts of Record at Westminster by Action of Debt Bill Plaint or Information wherein no Essoin Protection Wager of Law Aid-Prayer Priviledg Injunction or Order of Restraint shall be in any wise Prayed Granted or Allowed nor any more then one Imparlance Every person committed contrary to this Act shall have an Habea◠Corpus And be it also provided and Enacted That if any person shall hereafter be committed restrained of his Liberty or suffer imprisonment by the Order or Decrée of any such Court of Star-Chamber or other Court aforesaid now or at any time hereafter having or pretending to have the same or like Iurisdiction power or authority to commit or imprison as aforesaid Or by the command or Warrant of the Kings Maiesty his Heirs or Successors in their own Person or by the command or Warrant of the Councel-board or of any of the Lords or others of his Majesties Privy Councel That in every such case every person so committed restrained of his liberty or suffering imprisonment upon demand or motion made by his Counsel or other imployed by him for that purpose unto the Iudges of the Court of Kings Bench or Common Pleas in open Court shall without delay upon any pretence whatsoever for the ordinary Fées usually paid for the same have forthwith granted unto him a Writ of Habeas Corpus to be directed generally unto all and every Sheriffs Gaoler Minister Officer or other person in whose custody the party committed or restrained shall be and the Sheriffs Gaoler Minister Officer or other person in whose custody the party so committed or restrained shall be shall at the return of the said Writ and according to the command thereof upon due and convenient notice thereof given unto him at the charge of the party who requireth or procureth such Writ and upon security by his own bond given to pay the charge of carrying back the prisoner if he shall be remanded by the Court to which he shall be brought as in like cases hath béen used such charges of bringing up and carrying back the prisoner to be alwayes ordered by the Court if any difference shall arise thereabout bring or cause to be brought the body of the said party so committed or restrained unto and before the Iudges or Iustices of the said Court from whence the same Writ shall issue in open Court and shall then likewise certify the true cause of such his detainer or imprisonment and thereupon the Court within thrée Court-dayes after such return made and delivered in open Court shall procéed to examine and determine whether the cause of such commitment appearing upon the said return be iust and legal or not and shall thereupon do what to Iustice shall appertain either by delivering bailing or remanding the prisoner And if any thing shall be otherwise wilfully done or omitted to be done by any Iudg Iustice Officer or other person aforementioned contrary to the direction and true meaning hereof That then such person so offending shall forfeit to the party grieved Treble damages in default his treble damages to be recovered by such means and in such manner as is formerly in this Act limited and appointed for the like penalty to be sued for and recovered To what Courts this Act shall extend Provided alwayes and be it Enacted That this Act and the several clauses therein contained shall be taken and expounded to extend only to the Court of Star-Chamber and to the said Courts holden before the President and Councel in the Marches of Wales and before the President and Councel in the Northern parts and also to the Court commonly called the Court of the Dutchy of Lancaster holden before the Chancellor and Councel of that Court And also in the Court of Exchequer of the County Palatine of Chester held before the Chamberlain and Councel of that Court And to all Courts of like Iurisdiction to be hereafter erected ordained constituted or appointed as aforesaid And to the Warrants and directions of the Councel-boards and to the commitments restraints and imprisonments of any person or persons made commanded or awarded by the Kings Majesty his Heirs or Successors in their own person or by the Lords and others of the Privy Councel and every one of them Offenders of this Act shall be impleaded within two years after any offence And lastly provided and be it Enacted That no person or persons shall be sued impleaded molested or troubled for any offence against this present Act unless the party supposed to have so offended shall be sued or impleaded for the same within two years at the most after such