Bills brought in so to be cancelled And as to the Interest that shall have incurred on the said Old Bills to their being brought in it shall be so computed as to abate what did accrue whilst they lay in any of the Receivers or Collectors Hands or in the Exchequer and shall be written on the said New Bills XXXIV Stat. 9 10. W. 3. cap. 21. Any person to whom any piece or pieces of Silver Money shall be tendred being diminisht otherwise than by Wearing or by the Stamp Impression Colour or Weight suspected to be Counterfeit may cut break or deface such Piece or Pieces And thereupon appearing Counterfeit the Tenderer shall bear the Loss but being of due Weight and appearing Lawful Money the person who cut it shall take it for what it was Coined for XXXV If any Dispute arise whether the Piece so cut be Counterfeit it shall be determined by the Mayor Bailiffs or Chief Officer of the Place where Tendred if a City or Town Corporate or if not then by the next Justice of Peace of the County XXXVI The Tellers of the Exchequer their Deputies and Clerks and the Receivers General of his Majesties Revenue shall cut break or deface every piece of Counterfeit or unlawfully diminisht Silver Money Tendred them in Payment for his Majesties Use And the said Tellers and Receivers General their Deputies and Clerks shall weigh all Silver Money by them Received and the same or any piece thereof appearing by the Weight or otherwise to be Counterfeit or Unlawfully Diminisht shall not be received by or from them in the Exchequer XXXVII The Act made the last Session of this present Parliament Intituled An Act for the better Preventing the Counterfeiting the Current Coin of this Kingdom and every Article thereof shall be in Force till 25 March 1701. and thence to the end of the next Session of Parliament XXXVIII Stat. 9 10 W. 3. cap. 33. No persons shall after 24 June 1698 and before 24 June 1699. Coin or make or cause to be coin'd or made any Farthings or Half-pence or tokens to go for Farthings or Half-pence of Copper or any other Metal whatsoever on pain of forfeiting Five Pounds for every Averdupoize Pound Weight of such Farthings and Half-pence so Coined one Moiety to the King the other to such persons as will sue for the same XXXIX The Contractors for making or coining of Copper Farthings and Half-pence shall not by virtue of any Agreement made with his Majesty and the late Queen for giving in Exchange to his Majesties Subjects weekly Farthings and Halfpence made of Copper for Farthings and Half pence made of Tin be obliged to perform such Exchange for so many weeks only as are between the said 24 June 1698. and the said 24 June 1699. Creditors I. Stat. 8 9 W. 3. cap 18. Two thirds or more in Number and Value of all real Creditors their Executors Administrators Guardians and Trustees and other Persons Authorized by them may make such Compositions as they think fit with their Debtors who being unable to pay the whole are withdrawn or absconded or are Prisoners for Debt before 17 Nov. 1696. II. Which Composition being for the Equal Benefit of all the Creditors and Subscribed and Sealed by the said Two thirds without any fraudulent Agreement shall be Binding III. And all persons Subscribing and Sealing such Composition shall within Twenty days after being required thereunto in writing before two Witnesses by any of the Creditors make Oath in writing before a Master in Chancery Ordinary or Extraordinary on what account their Debts became due and that they neither have nor are to receive any greater advantage than the said Composition Which Oath shall be made and filed in Chancery at the charges of the requirer within twenty days and the persons forswearing themselves shall suffer as for Perjury IV. Persons refusing to make such Oath or claiming a greater Debt than due or receiving or agreeing to receive a greater advantage than the said Composition their Subscription shall be void they shall forfeit 100 l. and treble the Value fraudulently claimed received or agreed to be received with full Costs of Suit to the Creditors suing for the same and the Money so recovered over and above the Charges shall go to the Creditors Contributing thereto V. Where any Debtor compounded with shall be kept in Prison contrary to such Composition the Lord Keeper Master of the Rolls or any of the Judges may in presence of the Creditor or absence if lawfully Summon'd discharge such Debtor out of Prison upon producing such Composition and Schedule of Debts upon Oath and swearing the cause of Imprisonment to be only for such Debts and the Creditor shall pay the Charges of such detaining and the Keeper of the Goal is to Attend with and Discharge such Prisoner under penalty of 5 l. a day VI. Persons Sued for any thing done in prosecution of this Act the Plaintiff being Nonsuit or Cast shall pay treble Costs VII Provided this Act shall not make void any Securities by Mortgage Pawn Judgment Statute or Recognizance or otherwise whereby the Lands Tenements Hereditaments Goods and Chattels of such Debtors may be charged so as the same affect not the person of the Debtor Compounded with VIII And provided that Agreements already made between Debtors and Creditors shall be of Force subject to the Benefits of this Act for enforcing such Agreements IX Stat. 9 10 W. 3. cap. 29. After 24 June 1698. The Act made in the second Session of this present Parliament held 8 9 W. 3. Intituled An Act for Relief of Creditors by making Compositions with their Debtors in case Two thirds in Number and Value do Agree and every Clause Matter and Thing therein contained shall be Repealed Determined and of no Force X. This Act shall not make void any Agreement or Composition made bona fide before the said 24 June nor any Order for the Discharge of any Debtor out of Custody made in pursuance of such Composition by virtue of the abovesaid Act or within the saving or benefit thereof before the said 24 June But every such Composition whereupon any such Order of Discharge is made shall be good and effectual and every such Order of Discharge is hereby Confirmed and every such Composition whereupon no such Order of Discharge shall be made shall be of the same force as if this Act had not been made Nor shall it Pardon or Discharge any person who before the said 24 June shall Incur any Penalty by committing any Offence against the said Act. XI No Persons Discharged by virtue of the said Act before the said 24 June shall be deemed to be Discharged thereby who to procure any Agreement or Release from their Creditors have before one of the Judges or one of the Masters in Chancery corruptly made any false Oath to the Defrauding their Creditors but every such Agreement and Release obtain'd upon a false Oath by any person being
Contributions for the said Tickets And if such Contributions before 24 June 1697. be not sufficient to pay the said Loans with Interest such Loans shall be satisfied out of the Duties on Malt brought in in specie And so many Tickets not deliver'd out as are equal to such Principal Money unsatisfied to be Cancelled and the rest Drawn and proportion'd accordingly Which Money so Lent to His Majesty to be part of the Sum appropriated to his Majesties Houshold and other his necessary Occasions LIX Every Round Bushell 8 Inches and ½ wide throughout and 8 Inches deep shall be esteem'd a Winchester Bushel LX. The 1400 l. in Hammer'd Money paid into the Custom-house of Exon by Daniel Ivry and Henry Arthur Merchants before 4 May last shall be receiv'd by Tale by the Collector there and be carried to the Mint to be Coin'd into Mill'd Money Hawkers and Pedlars Vide Taxes Stat. 8 9. W. 3. cap. 25. Hay Market I. STat. 8 9. W. 3. cap. 17. After 25 March 1697. Every Cart Load of Hay that shall stand to be Sold in the Street called the Hay-Market in the Parishes of St. Martins in the Fields and St. James's within the Liberties of Westminster shall Pay 3 d. and every Cart Load of Straw 1 d. in ease of the Parishioners of the said Parishes for and towards the Paving and Amending the said Street II. Every Cart Load that Pays and is not Sold shall not Pay the next Market Day for standing III. Upon refusal of Payment the Offenders Goods may be Distrain'd by Warrant of any Justice of Peace of Middlesex or Westminster and Sold within Three Days after Distress returning the Overplus IV. The said Street shall be Construed to extend in Length from the Old Toll Post at the upper end of the Hay-Market to the Phaenix Inn at the lower end and in Breadth from Kennel to Kennel which shall be esteemed the Bounds of the said Market V. A Hand-Bell shall be Rung by the Toll-gatherer about the Market Twice a Day on every Market Day viz Tuesday Thursday and Saturday weekly at One Hours Distance to give Notice of the time of ending the Market according to the Stat. 2 W. M cap. 8. In default of such Ringing Persons Selling Hay or Straw shall the next immediate Market Day Stand and Sell Toll-free VI. All Forfeitures given by the foresaid Act shall be Demanded in the said Market by the Bell-Ringer on the same Day on which they are incurr'd and Complaint shall be made of the Offence to some Justice of the Quorum in Westminster before the next succeeding Market Day or else no person shall be liable to such Forfeitures VII The Collectors of the said Toll shall yearly at every Easter Sessions give to the Justices of Peace of the said County and City a particular Account upon Oath of their Receipts and Disbursements and the Overplus to go to the County of Middlesex High-ways I. Stat. 8 9 W. 3. cap. 15. The Justices of Peace at their next Sessions for the County of Surrey shall Appoint Surveyors of the High-ways for the year ensuing pursuant to the Statute 3 4 W. M. cap. 12. who shall meet and Survey the Lanes leading from Woodhatch Borough to Sidlow Mill and Salmons Cross in the Parish of Ryegate and the Lanes called Horsehill and Bonehurst and Petteridge in the Parish of Horley in the County of Surrey and make their Certificates thereof to the Justices who thereupon shall make such Orders in and about the same as to them shall seem good II. The Surveyors shall require such Carts and Persons as are liable to work in the High-ways to work in the respective Places paying according to the usual Rate of the Country III. Where there is not sufficient Gravel Chalk Sand or Stones to be found in the proper Parish the Surveyors or whom they shall Appoint may Dig Take and Carry away the said Materials By direction of the Justices out of the Waste or Common of any Neighbouring Parish paying a reasonable Satisfaction for the same and filling up the Ground if directed or desired IV. The Justices at their special Sessions shall Appoint one or more Receiver or Receivers of Toll viz. Of every Horse 1 d. Coach 6 d. Calash or Chariot 6 d. Waggon or Cart 6 d. Score of Sheep or Lambs 1 d. and so proportionably Score of Calves 2 d. Score of Hogs 2 d. and so proportionably for a greater or lesser Number not being under Five Score of Oxen or Neat Cattel 6 d. and so proportionably that shall pass through the said Way after the passing of this Act. The Place for Collecting the said Tolls to be at such convenient Place upon the High-way in or near the said Lanes as the Justices of Peace at their special Sessions shall appoint V. The Receivers or Collectors of the said Toll shall give a monthly Account upon Oath to one or more of the next Justices to be Return'd to and Examin'd by the Justices at the next special Sessions The Horse Cart c. of any Person refusing to pay the said Toll may be Distrain'd and Detain'd till the Toll and Damages of Distress be satisfied VI. The Surveyors shall at the next special Sessions Account to the Justices in Writing under their Hands for all Moneys Receiv'd of the Collectors and Disbursements in or about the said High-ways Paying the Overplus to the Surveyors for the year ensuing And the Justices shall make Allowances to them for their Care and Pains as to them shall seem good VII If the Collectors of the Toll shall not upon request duly pay the same to the Surveyors or in case the Surveyors shall not make such Account and Payments as the Justices shall Order the Justices upon due Proof may Imprison the Offenders VIII The Surveyors or the more part of them by Order of the Justices at their Special Sessions may engage the Profits arising by the said Toll by Indenture under their Hands and Seals for any Term not exceeding Fifteen years to any Persons who shall Lend any present Sum of Money at 6 per Cent. Which Money so Advanced shall be Distributed by the Iustices at their Special Sessions for the Purposes aforesaid IX Such as neglect or refuse having no Lawful excuse to take upon him the Office of Surveyor being thereunto chosen shall be Fined by the Justices not exceeding 5 l. to be Levied by Distress and Sale of Goods and in such case or in case of Death some other Person to be chosen Surveyor X. All Fines and Forfeitures Incurr'd by virtue of this Act shall be paid to the Surveyors for the time being for and towards the Repairing the said Lanes XI Actions brought against any Person for any thing done in pursuance of this Act shall be laid in the said County of Surrey and not elsewhere the Defendant may Plead the General Issue and give the Special Matter in Evidence c. and in case the Cause goes
for the Defendant he shall have double Costs XII Persons passing the Place where Toll is taken and returning the same day shall not Pay Toll twice nor shall Persons pay who pass with Carriages from any next adjoyning Parish going to Market or in Matters of Husbandry nor Soldiers upon their March nor Persons Riding Post XIII Persons Chargeable by Law towards Repairing of the said High-ways shall still remain so XIV This Act shall be of force no longer than for Twenty years and if the said Lanes shall be sooner amended and so adjudged by the Justices at their Quarter Sessions then after payment of the Money Borrowed the aforesaid Toll shall cease XV. The Justices of Surrey and also the Justices of Sussex shall yearly at the Epiphany Quarter Sessions if they think fit appoint Three Persons of each County to view the said Lanes and examine the Surveyors Accounts and in case they find any misapplication of the Moneys Levied by this Act to certifie the same to the Judges at the next Assizes for the County of Surrey who are to hear and finally determine the same XVI Stat. 8 9 W. 3. cap. 16. For enlarging Common High-ways It is Enacted that the Justices of Peace of any County City c. or the major Part of them Five at least at their Quarter Sessions may enlarge or widen any High-ways in their respective Counties c. So that the Ground to be taken into the said High-ways do not exceed Eight Yards in Breadth and that they do not pull down any House nor take away any Ground from Garden Orchard Court or Yard XVII For Satisfaction of the Owners the said Justices shall Impannel a Jury and Administer an Oath to them that they will Assess such Damages and Recompence to the Owners or others Interested in the Ground not exceeding 25 Years Purchase as they shall think reasonable c. And upon payment of the said Money so Awarded or leaving it in the Hands of the Clerk of the Peace of the County for the Use of the Owner the Interest of the said Owner shall be divested out of him and the said Ground shall be esteemed a Publick High-way to all Intents whatsoever XVIII And the said Justices shall order Assessments to be made and Levied upon all such persons that ought to Repair the said High-way and the Money thereby Raised shall be Imploy'd towards Purchasing the Land to enlarge the said High-ways and making Ditches and Fences The said Assessments to be Levied by the Overseers of the High-ways by Distress and Sale of Goods if not paid within Ten Days after Demand XIX No such Assessment shall in one Year exceed the Rate of 6 d. in the Pound for Lands nor 6 d. in the Pound for personal Estates XX. The said Justices at the Request of any Person for enlarging High-ways shall at their Quarter Sessions Issue out their Precepts to the Owners of Ground to be Laid to the said High ways to Appear and shew Cause why the said High-ways should not be enlarged XXI After an Order or Decree is made for the Laying out of Ground for enlarging High-ways the Owner hath Liberty in Eight Months after to Cut down any Wood or Timber growing upon the said Ground or upon neglect the Justices shall Sell it and deliver to the Owner the Value XXII Persons Agrieved by Order of the Justices may Appeal to the Judges of Assize at the next Assize only who may Affirm or Reverse the same and if they see cause to affirm to Award Costs against the Appellant XXIII Where any Common High-way shall be enclosed after a Writ of Ad quod Damnum Issued and Executed any person Injured or Agrieved by such Inclosure may Complain to the Justices at the Quarter Sessions next after such Inquisition who may hear and finally determine the same c. But if no such Appeal be made then the said Inquisition and Return Recorded by the Clerk of the Peace to be for ever Binding XXIV Justices of Peace at their respective special Sessions to be held by Virtue of the Stat. 3 4 W. M. cap. 12. in such Cases as they shall think necessary shall direct their Precepts to the Surveyors of the High-ways where Two or more Cross High-ways meet requiring them to erect where such Ways joyn a Stone or Post with an Inscription directing to the next Market Town to which each of the said Cross Ways lead And in case the Surveyor or Surveyors neglect or refuse so to do for the space of Three Months every such Offender shall Forfeit 10 s. to be Levied by Warrant of one Justice directed to the Constable requiring him to Distrain and Sell the Goods of such Offender and Imploy the Money to the said Purpose XXV Stat. 9 10 W. 3. cap. 18. The Justices of Peace at the Quarter Sessions for the County of Gloucester or any Five of them next after 1 May 1698. may then and every Year nominate and appoint Surveyors of the ruinous High-way and Road from the Town of Birdlipp and the Top of Crickley-Hill in the County of Gloucester to the City of Gloucester for the Year ensuing out of the Inhabitants of the adjacent Parishes who within one Week after Notice given them of their Election are to meet in their several Divisions to Survey the same and consider the best Method for Repair thereof and Certifie the same to the Justices at the next Quarter Sessions who thereupon shall make such Orders about the same as to them shall seem good which shall be observed by the said Surveyors and all others concerned in putting this Act in Execution XXVI The said Surveyors may appoint such Carts and Persons within the said adjacent Parishes to come and Work in the said respective Places as they shall think needful for which the Surveyors shall pay the usual Rate of the Countrey in case they shall be required to Work beyond the times limited by the Statutes XXVII Where there is not sufficient Gravel Sand or Stones in any Parish or Hamlet where the said ruinous places lye to Repair the same the said Surveyors and such as they shall appoint may dig and carry away any Gravel Sand or Stones out of the Waste or Common of any Neighbouring Parish or Hamlet without paying for the same and in Default thereof may dig the same in any persons Grounds not being an House Garden Orchard Yard or Meadow or Avenue to an House making only such reasonable satisfaction to the Owner or Occupier of such Ground as the Damage sustained thereby XXVIII The said Justices at the Quarter Sessions may appoint Receivers or Collectors of the Toll to be paid towards the said Work viz. For every Horse One Peny Every Stage Coach or Hackney Coach One Shilling Every other Coach Calash or Chariot One Shilling Every Wagon Six Pence Every Cart Six Pence Every Score of Hogs or Pigs Three Pence and so proportionably for a greater or lesser Quantity not under
Five Every Score of Oxen or Neat Cattle Eight Pence and so proportionably for every greater or lesser Number To be paid from the passing of the Act by all persons who shall Travel with Horse Coach Cart or Wagon or shall lead or drive any Oxen or other Cattle beforementioned in and through the High-way aforesaid to the said Collectors or Receivers at some convenient place on the said High-way between the Top of Birdlipp and City of Gloucester where a Turn-pike or Gate may be set up as the Justices shall appoint XXIX Every Receiver or Collector shall if Required give in a weekly Account upon Oath to one or more of the Justices to be returned to the Justices at the Quarter Sessions to Examine and make such Order therein as to them shall seem meet XXX Any person refusing or neglecting to pay the said Toll on Demand the Collector or Receiver may Distrain and Detain such Horse Cart Coach Calash Chariot Wagon Oxen Hogs and other Cattle till the Toll be paid with Damages in making the Distress Which Money so received shall be paid to the Surveyors towards mending the said Ruinous Places in the said High-ways and not elsewhere XXXI The said Surveyors at the Quarter Sessions next after the end of their Year shall give an Account to the Justices of their Receipts and Disbursments that the Overplus of the Money if any may be paid to the succeeding Surveyors towards amending the said High-ways or Repaying the Money Lent before hand And such Allowances shall be made by the Justices to the Surveyors and others assisting in the said amending or advancing Moneys thereto as to them shall seem meet XXXII If the Collector or Receiver shall not duly pay the Surveyors or if the Surveyors shall not make the payments Ordered by the Justices then the Justices at the Quarter Sessions shall enquire thereinto upon Oath and Commit the persons Convicted thereof to Goal till they have made a true Account and Payment XXXIII The said Surveyors for the time being by Order of the Justices or any Five of them may Ingage the Profits arising by the said Toll and by a Levy upon the respective Parishes pursuant to the Act made 3 4 W. M. for the better Repairing and Amending the High-ways and for Settling the Rates of Carriage of Goods or by any other Act for the Moneys by them borrowed for that purpose and may under their Hands and Seals Transfer the said Profits for any Term not exceeding Fifteen Years to such as will upon that Security Advance the Money so Lent with Interest And the Justices shall Distribute the said Money to any persons giving Security to Repair and Amend the said High way in the proportions aforesaid XXXIV Any person without Lawful excuse neglecting or refusing to take upon him the Office of Surveyor being thereunto chosen or to do his Duty therein may be Fined by the Justices not exceeding 5 l. And in such case or in case of Death some other person shall be appointed Surveyor by the Justices or two of them Which Fines and Forfeitures shall be paid to the Surveyors towards Repairing the said High-ways XXXV If a Suit be Commenced for any thing done in pursuance of this Act the Action shall be laid in the County of Gloucester only and the Defendant may Plead the General Issue and give this Act and the Special Matter in Evidence and if the Action be laid elsewhere or the Plaintiff be Non Suit or Discontinue his Action or have Judgment against him upon Demurrer the Defendant shall have Double Costs and Charges XXXVI No person passing where the Toll is taken and returning the same day shall pay a second time and persons passing through the said place from any adjoyning Parish may carry Stones Lime Gravel Dung Mould or Compost and Carts with Hay not sold or going to Market or Corn in the Straw at Hay time or Harvest Ploughs Harrows and other Implements of Husbandry and Stock of Cattle belonging to the Lands of the respective Parishes shall pass the said place without paying as also all Soldiers on their March and the Carts Wagons and Coaches attending them and all persons riding Post XXXVII All persons Chargeable by Law towards Repairing the said High-ways shall still remain so XXXVIII This Act shall not be in Force longer than Twenty Years from 24 Jun. 1698. And if before the Expiration of the said Term the said High-ways shall be sufficiently amended and so adjudged by the Justices at their Quarter Sessions then upon repayment of the Moneys borrowed the said Toll shall cease XXXIX No Turnpike shall be Erected nor Toll Demanded till Security given to the Justices at the Quarter Sessions that the said High-way shall within Five Years be sufficiently Repaired XL. The persons so giving Security shall have full power to Levy for Twenty Years after 24 Jun. 1698. Six Pence in the Pound with the Arrears thereof on all the Parishes adjoyning to the said High-way towards the Repairing thereof and shall cause to be done by the Parishioners within the said Parishes all that is required by the forementioned Act of 3 4 W. M. for the better Repairing the High-ways or by any other Act And if the Toll Granted by this Act with the Sum Charged on the said Parishes be not sufficient to Repair the said High-way within the time limited the persons so giving Security shall Levy and Collect Two Pence in the Pound on the Hundred and Hundreds in which the said High-way or any part thereof doth lye to be Levied by Distress and Sale of Goods if not paid within Ten days after Demand And if the persons so giving Security shall not do what is required of them by this Act they shall forfeit 100 l. per Ann. to such person as shall sue for the same XLI The persons so having given Security in case the said High-way shall not be sufficiently Repaired or Certified so to be by the Justices of the Peace for Herefordshire or Ten of them by the time limited in their Security shall over and above the Sums they shall be bound for Forfeit 500 l. One moiety to the Repairing the said High-way the other to such person as shall Sue for the same XLII The Toll shall not be Demanded by virtue of this Act unless the Security given to the Justices of Peace of Gloucestershire at the Quarter Sessions shall be approved of by Five Justices of Peace for Herefordshire under their Hands and Seals Imprisonment I. STat. 9 W. 3 cap. 4. Enacted That Counter John Bernardi Robert Cassells Robert Meldrum James Chambers and Robert Blackburne being in Newgate for a Traiterous Conspiracy to Assassinate his Majesty together with such other persons as shall hereafter render themselves or be apprehended and against whom Oath shall be made of their being concerned in the said Conspiracy shall be Detained and Kept in Custody without Bail or Mainprize till 1 Jan. 1698. and to the end of the next
purposes and the principal Moneys thereupon payable in Course and the Interest every three months as if the former Orders were not cancelled IV. The Governour and Company of the Bank of England shall not be obliged to make Dividends of the Moneys received by them by virtue of the Talleys and Orders which have been subscribed into the Capital Stock of the said Bank since the enlarging thereof once in every four months but after 25 Mar. 1698. shall make such Dividends once in every six Kalendary Months at the least unto the Members of the said Corporation according to their respective Shares and Interests in the said Capital Stock Partitions I. STat. 8 9 W. 3. cap. 31. From and after the first day of May 1697 after Process of Pone or Attachment return'd upon a Writ of Partition and Affidavit made of due notice given of the said Writ of Partition to the Tenant or Tenants to the Action and a Copy thereof left with the Occupier or in the Tenants absence to the Wife Son or Daughter of the Age of 21 of the Tenant in Possession of the Manors Lands c. whereof the Partition is to be unless the Tenant in Possession be Demandant in the Action at least 40 days before the return of the Pone or Attachment if there be no Appearance entred in 15 days after the return in the Court where such Writs are returnable then the Demandant having entred his Declaration the Court may proceed to examine the Demandants Right and Part and according as they shall find the same to be they shall for so much give Judgment by Default and award a Writ to make Partition which Writ being executed after 8 days notice to the Occupier and return'd and thereupon final Judgment entred the same shall be good and conclude all persons whatsoever although all persons concerned are not named in the Proceedings nor the Title of the Tenants truly set forth II. Provided that if any person concerned against whose Right such Judgment by default is given shall within one year after or in case of Infancy Coverture Non Sanae Memoriae or absence Beyond-Seas within one year after such Inability removed move the Court where such Judgment is entred and shew good matter in Bar of such Partition then the Court may suspend or set aside such Judgment and admit the Tenant to appear and plead and the Cause shall proceed as if no such Judgment had been given and if the Court shall adjudge for the first Demandant then the first Judgment shall stand confirm'd and the person so appealing shall pay Costs or if within such time the persons concerned shall shew to the Court an inequality in the Partition the Court may award a new Partition to be made in presence of all Parties concerned if they will appear which second Partition return'd and filed shall be good and firm against all persons except as before for ever III. No Plea in Abatement shall be admitted in any Suit for Partition nor shall the same abate by reason of the Death of any Tenant IV. When the High Sheriff cannot conveniently be present at the Execution of any Judgment in Partition the Under-Sheriff in presence of two Justices of Peace of the County may proceed to the Execution of the same by Inquisition in due Form of Law and the High Sheriff shall make the same Return as if he were personally present After Partition made return'd and filed the Under-Tenants shall continue in their Tenancies as before they were divided and set out to the respective Landlords under the same Rents and Covenants c. so also where any Demandant is Tenant in actual Possession to the Tenant to the Action for his part and proportion or any part thereof V. The respective Sheriffs Under-Sheriffs and Deputies and Justices of Peace in case of Disability in the High-Sheriff shall give due attendance to the Executing of such Writ of Possession or every of them to pay the Demandant Costs and Damages not exceeding Five pounds for Which the Demandant may bring his Action in any of the Kings Courts at Westminster wherein no Essoin c. In case the Demandant shall not pay the Sheriffs c. such Fees as they demand the Court shall award what each person shall receive VI. This Act to continue for seven years and from thence to the end of the next Session of Parliament Poor I. Stat. 8 9 W. 3. cap. 30. If any person who after the First Day of May 1697. shall come to any Parish or other Place to Inhabit shall at the same time deliver to any of the Church Wardens or Overseers of the Poor of the Place where he comes a Certificate under the Hands and Seals of the Church-wardens or Overseers of the Poor of any other Parish or Place Attested by Two or more Witnesses thereby owning the Person mentioned in the Certificate to be an Inhabitant legally Settled in that Parish or Place such Certificate having been Allowed and Subscribed by Two Justices of Peace of the County City or Borough from whence it comes shall oblige the said Parish or Place to receive and provide for the person mentioned in the Certificate with his Family as Inhabitants whenever the party shall happen to become Chargeable to the place to which such Certificate was given and then and not before it shall be Lawful for such Person and his Children though Born in that Parish not having otherwise Acquired a Legal Settlement to be removed to the place from whence such Certificate was brought II. After 1 September 1697. every such person as shall receive Relief of any Parish or Place and the Wife and Children cohabiting in the same House except such Child as shall be permitted to live at home to attend some helpless Parent shall upon the Right Shoulder of their upper Garment in a visible manner wear a large Roman P with the first Letter of the Name of the Parish or Place where the said person Inhabits cut in Red or Blue Cloath as the Church-wardens or Overseers shall appoint The Poor person neglecting or refusing to wear such Badge or Mark may be punish'd by any Justice of Peace of the County either by ordering his or her Relief on the Collection to be abridged or withdrawn or by Committing the party to the House of Correction not exceeding 21 Days and if any Church-warden or Overseer of the Poor after the said 1 Septemb. shall relieve any such Poor person not wearing such Badge he being Convicted by one Witness before a Justice of Peace shall Forfeit for every such Offence 20 s. to be Levied by Distress and Sale of Goods one Moiety to the use of the Informer the other to the Poor of the Parish III. Justices of Peace at their Quarter Sessions upon any Appeal concerning the Settlement of any Poor person or upon Proof of notice given of an Appeal though the Appeal was not afterwards Prosecuted shall Award to the party for whom such
procured In which case such Arbitration or Umpirage shall be void and set aside by any Court of Law or Equity so as such corruption or undue Practice be complain'd of in the Court where the Rule is made for such Arbitration before the last day of the next Term after such Arbitration made and published to the Parties Blackwell-Hall I. STat. 8 9 W. 3. cap. 9. Enacted That after the 1st of May 1697. the Governours of Blackwell-hall and their Deputies shall strictly observe and keep the following Times and Rules viz. The publick Market of Blackwell-hall shall be held every Thursday Friday and Saturday from eight of the Clock in the Forenoon till twelve and from two of the Clock in the Afternoon till five the said hours of beginning and ending the said Market shall be known by ringing the Market Bell in the said Hall the same to be continued Weekly through the whole Year except days of Humiliation or Thanksgiving and the Keepers of the said Hall shall not admit any buying or selling of any Woollen Cloth at the said Hall upon any other days or hours than as aforesaid upon the penalty of 100 l. II. The said Governours c. shall appoint to the Countrey Clothiers the most convenient Room in the said Hall for the sale of their Cloth and Warehouse Room for Lodging and safe keeping the same paying the Ancient Duties of the said Hall and no more III. No Factor or any Person whatsoever other than the Owner of the Cloth shall sell or expose to sale out of the said Market of Blackwell-hall any Cloth directed to be brought to the said Market or any Factor there upon penalty of 5 l. for every Cloth so sold IV. The Hall-keepers Clerks and Master-Porters of the said Hall shall take care that the Rules and Orders appointed by this Act be put in Execution and shall diligently and faithfully keep their weekly Registers of all Clothes bought and sold there in which Books they shall truly enter the names and habitation of the Owners Buyers and Sellers and times of Sale and Factor or other person buying or selling of every Cloth to which said Books it shall be lawful for the Clothiers their Agents or Servants at all convenient times to have recourse without Fee V. Any Hall-keeper Clerk or Master-Porter neglecting his Duty herein shall for every Offence forfeit 10 l. Every person after the said first of May buying any Cloth of any person except of the Owner otherwise than for ready Money the person selling shall within twelve days after the sale and delivery of the same take or demand of the Buyer a Note testifying under the Buyers hand the Cloth sold and the Sum of Money sold for payable to the Owner and shall deliver such Note on demand to the Owner or any person authorized by him to receive the same on pain to forfeit to the Owner of the Cloth sold double the Value thereof for every neglect of so doing And if any such Buyer upon trust shall refuse or neglect to give such Note upon request at any time next after eight days after sale and delivery he shall forfeit for every such Offence 20 s. for every Cloth so sold to the Owner and every piece of Cloth not returned within eight days after delivery of the same shall be deemed to be passed and approved of by the Buyer as a Merchantable Cloth and all Contracts and Agreements for allowing a longer time for the passing of any Cloth shall be Void VI. All forfeitures and penalties imposed by this Act may be sued for by Action of Debt Bill Plaint c. in any of his Majesties Courts of Record in which no Essoin c. and but one Imparlance shall be allowed and if not otherwise herein before disposed of one Moiety to the King the other to the Informer VII Provided if the Owner of the Cloth neglect to sue for any of the penalties by the space of six Months then any other person may sue for the same and one Moiety shall be to the King the other to the Informer VIII Every known or reputed Factor for selling Cloth in the said Market of Blackwell-hall shall before the 24th of June 1697. if requested by any Clothier give and deliver a true Account in Writing of the Effects of such Clothier which now are or before the first of May 1697. shall be in the hands of such Factor and the particular Clothes of such Clothier sold by such Factor and the sums of Money due to such Clothier by any Contract of such Factor and of the names and abodes of such persons from whom such sums are due and if any such Factor shall refuse or neglect so to do he shall forfeit to the person to whom he ought to give such Account 10 l. to be recovered as aforesaid Bridgwater I. Stat. 9 10 W. 3. cap. 12. For inlarging repairing and preserving the Bridge and Key of the Borough of Bridgwater in Com. Somerset it is Enacted That for fourteen years after the first of May 1698. Every Master or Person having the Command of any Ship or Vessel Unlading on the said Key or into any Barge Boat Hoy or Lighter to pass through the said Bridge shall pay at the Unlading thereof as follows viz. II. For every Weigh of Coals according to the measure used there Last of Wheat Rye Barley Malt and other Grain and for every Weigh of Salt and every Tun of any other Goods or Merchandizes whatsoever and so proportionably for a greater or lesser Quantity Imported and Unladen in the said Port such sum not exceeding twelve pence Inclusive of all Keyage Wharfage Pontage and Cranage heretofore payable as the Mayor Aldermen Burgesses and Commonalty of the said Borough and their Successors in Common Council assembled shall from time to time order or appoint III. The said Mayor Aldermen Burgestes and Commonalty so assembled as aforesaid during the said fourteen Years may choose such persons to be Collectors of the Money so to be appointed to be paid as they shall think fit which Collectors shall pay the same to the Receiver of the Profits of the said Borough to the use of the said Mayor Aldermen Burgesses and Commonalty for the purpose aforesaid and no other use whatsoever IV. There shall be Eight or any Five of them Commissioners to take the Accounts of the Receipts and Disbursements of the Moneys so Collected during the said Term Four of which shall be yearly nominated by the Mayor Aldermen Burgesses and Commonalty in Common Council assembled and the other Four by the Justices of the Peace for the said County of Somerset at the respective Quarter Sessions of the Peace which Commissioners or any five of them may from time to time Require the Collectors who shall receive the Moneys in pursuance of this Act to render them a true Account of the Moneys which shall rest due upon such Account which they shall order to be laid out for
Policy Contract Bargain or Agreement which is to be performed after the 1st day of May 1697. upon which any Pramium is or shall be given or paid for Liberty to deliver receive accept or refuse any share in any Joint-stock Talleys Orders Exchequer Bills or Bank Bills other than such Policies and Contracts as are to be performed within three days from the time of making the same shall be utterly null and void and every such Praemium shall be paid back XII If any Praemium shall be given contrary to the intent and meaning of this Act with the privity of a sworn Broker or if any person shall Act or Trade as a Broker not being Admitted according to this Act and the same shall come to the knowledge of a sworn Broker in every such Case such sworn Broker shall forthwith discover the same and in case he shall not so do the Lord Mayor and Court of Aldermen shall displace such sworn Broker who shall for ever be incapable to use or exercise the Trade of a Broker XIII All penalties and forfeitures given by this Act shall be recovered by Action of Debt c. in any of the Kings Courts of Record at Westminster in which no Essoin c. one Moiety to the King the other to him that shall sue for the same XIV This Act to continue from the 1st of May 1697. for the space of three years and from thence to the end of the next Session of Parliament XV. No person buying or selling of Cattle Corn or any other Provision or Coal shall be esteemed a Broker within this Act. XVI No Broker Admitted by this Act shall after the time aforesaid till the end of next Session of Parliament act or deal or drive any Bargain to buy or sell Talleys or other Securities upon Parliamentary Funds unless Licensed so to do by the Lords of the Treasury or three of them under the penalty of 500 l. I. Stat. 8 9 W. 3. cap. 29. For Repair of the Peers of Bridlington alias Burlington in the East-Riding of Yorkshire It is Enacted That after 1 May 1697 and until 1 May 1704 there shall be paid for the repairing and amending the said Peer one farthing for every Chalder of Coals that shall be loaden on Board any Ship or other Vessel at or in the Port of Newcastle upon Tyne or at Sunderland Blythe Suton Sluce Culler Coats or any place reputed a Member of the Port of Newcastle Which said Duties during the term aforesaid shall be answered and paid unto Arthur Lord Viscount Irwin Sir Griffith Boynton Sir Charles Hotham Sir William Strickland Sir William St. Quintin Baronets Sir Michael Wharton Sir Matthew Peirson Sir William Hustler Sir Richard Osbaldeston Knights Ralph Wharton John Buck Robert Monckton Hugh Bethell Robert Byerly Charles Osborn Esquires and to the Wardens of Trinity-House at Hull for the time being the Survivors and Survivor of them and the Executors and Administrators of such Survivor or to their Deputy or Deputies thereunto appointed by some Writing under their or the major part of their Hands and Seals by the Master of the Vessel whereupon such Coals shall be loaden The said Duties to be paid at such place or places as shall be appointed in or near the place of Loading II. No Officer of the Customs within the Ports Harbours Creeks or places aforesaid shall during the time aforesaid take any Entries or give any Cocket or other Discharge for any Ship or other Vessel so loaden with Coals as aforesaid till the Duties hereby granted shall be paid to the respective Deputies appointed to receive the same as aforesaid and that the Master of such Ship or Vessel do produce an Acquittance testifying the Receipt thereof And every Officer of the Customs making default in any of the Premisses shall forfeit the Sum of 50 l. to the said A. Lord Viscount J. Sir G. B. c. to be recovered with Costs in any of the Kings Courts of Record by Action of Debt c. wherein no Essoin c. shall be allow'd III. Any person or persons by Warrant under the Hands and Seals of the said A. Lord Viscount J. Sir G. B. c. or the major part of them may go on Board any Ship or other Vessel loaden with Coals at any the foresaid places to inspect and take an account of the lading of such Coals IV. All such Sums of Money which shall be raised by the Duties aforesaid and recovered for any Forfeitures in this Act appointed other than what shall be laid out or allow'd for Collecting the said Duty not exceeding 6 d. in the pound shall be by the said A. Lord Viscount J. Sir G. B c. applyed to the rebuilding repairing and amending the said Port or Peer of Bridlington alias Burlington and there shall be provided and kept by the said persons their Deputy or Deputies one or more Books in which all Receipts and Payments by virtue of this Act shall be entred expressing the time when and persons from and to whom the same were made And once yearly the Justices of the Peace for the East-Riding of the County of York at their Quarter-Sessions may order the said Books to be brought before them to inspect the same and upon any mis-imployment of the said Duties to make such Orders for the better management of the same according to the intent of this Act as they shall think most fit Which Orders shall be observed by all persons concerned upon such Penalties not exceeding 100 l. as they shall set to be levyed upon the Goods of the Offenders by Warrant from the said Justices V. The said A. Lord Viscount J. Sir G. B c. or the greatest number of them that shall be then living may by Indenture under their Hands and Seals convey and assure the Duties granted by this Act or any part thereof as a Security for Money to be borrowed for the ends and purposes of this Act. VI. If any person shall be sued for any thing done by virtue of this Act he may plead the General Issue and give the special Matter in Evidence and upon Nonsuit or Verdict for the Defendant he shall recover double Costs VII After 1 May 1697 the said A. Lord Viscount J. Sir G B c. or any three or more of them may from time to time survey and inspect the sufficient Building and Repairs of the Peer aforesaid with all Walls Jetteys Sluces Sockers and Locks thereof and certifie the State and Condition of the same in Writing to the said Justices at their Quarter Sessions who are hereby impowered to charge the Lands formerly granted by K. James I. 20 Sept. in the 21st year of his Reign to John Earl of Holdernesse his Heirs and Assigns with such equal assesment as they shall judge sufficient and necessary for repair of the same and in default of Payment of the said assesment the Defaulter to be distrained by Warrant of three of such Justices and after
Session of Parliament unless they shall be sooner Bailed or Discharged by Six of the Privy Council Iuries I. Stat. 8 9 W. 3. cap. 10. It shall be lawful at any time before the 1st of Nov. 1697. for all Sheriffs or Coroners of Counties where Lists have not been Returned pursuant to the Act made the first Sessions of this present Parliament Intituled An Act for the Ease of Jurors and better Regulating of Juries to make Returns of Jurors in all Cases as they might have done before the making of the said Act. And from and after the Feast of S. Michael 1697. all Justices of the Peace are Required and Commanded at their Sessions of the Peace next before the Feast of S. Michael yearly to Issue forth Precepts to the respective Constables within their respective Counties or Divisions requiring them to make such Return of Persons to Serve upon Juries as by the said Act is directed Iudicial Proceedings I. Stat. 9 10 W. 3. cap. 16. The High Court of Chancery Court of Exchequer at Westminster or Court of Great Sessions in the respective Counties in Wales where the Cause or Causes Originally arose may issue forth Execution or Executions and other Processes upon every Judgment or Decree given or made in the Court held before the President and Council of the Marches of Wales before 1 June 1689. as if such Judgment or Decree had been given or made in either of the said Courts of the Exchequer or Grand Sessions II Provided That the said Courts have power to Review Rehear Reverse or Affirm the said Judgments and Decrees Iustices of Peace I. Stat. 8 9 W. 3. cap. 33. The Act made 5 6 W. M. Intituled An Act to Prevent Delays of Proceedings at the Quarter Sessions of the Peace shall be and is continued and made Perpetual II. After the 21st of April 1697. the Party prosecuting any Certiorari to remove an Indictment from the Quarter Sessions may find two sufficient Manucaptors to enter into a Recognizance before any one of the Justices of the Kings Bench in the same Sum and under the same Condition as are required by the former Act whereof mention shall be made on the Back of the Writ under the Hand of the Justice who took the same which shall be as Effectual to stay Proceedings as if taken before a Justice of Peace in the Proper County and it shall be added to the Condition of the Recognizance that the Party Suing out the Certiorari shall appear from day to day in the Court of Kings Bench and not depart till discharged by the said Court London I. STat. 8 9 W. 3. cap. 37. After 10 April 1697. all and every person and persons inhabiting in the Out Parishes of Middlesex and Westminster and Liberties thereof in the Borough of Southwark or in the Streets Lanes or Alleys comprized in the Weekly Bills and in the Town of Kensington shall Weekly on Wednesday and Saturday at the least between the hours of Six and Nine in the Forenoon cause to be swept and cleansed all the Streets Lanes Alleys and publick places before their respective Houses Buildings and Walls as well as of Churches and other publick places that the Dirt and Soil in the Streets may be heaped ready for the Scavenger to carry away upon pain to forfeit 10 s. for every Offence II. If any Conviction upon this Act or that of 2 W. M. Sess 2. cap. 8. shall be by view or knowledge of a Justice of Peace then one half of the penalty shall be to the Poor the other if for default of Pavement towards repairing the same and cleansing the Streets to be paid to the Scavenger otherwise to the relief of the Poor III. Where one side of a Street or Lane lies within the Bills of Mortality and the other side without the Justices of Peace may cause the respective Inhabitants to Pave that other side under the same penalty as if the same had been within the Bills of Mortality IV. The aforementioned Act of 2 W M. and the Clause therein against the Breeding Feeding or Keeping of Swine in the Backsides of the Paved Streets of the said Cities c. shall after 10 April 1697. be effectually put in execution against all persons whatsoever who shall presume to keep any manner of Swine so far as the Contiguous Buildings of the said Streets shall extend or within 50 yards thereof V. Where there is any Liberty Precinct or Vill within the Weekly Bills that uses to repair their own High-ways and also perform days work to other High-ways and are or shall become unable then after the said 10th of April the Justices of Peace at their special Sessions to be held every Four Months may allow so many days work as the said Justices shall think fit to be imployed by the Inhabitants of such Liberty c. in repairing the High-ways within such Liberty c. and the residue of the days Work as such Inhabitants are liable to do shall be imployed in repairing the other High-ways VI. So much of the Ancient High-way leading from Tottenham-Court near St. Giles's Pound towards Tiburn as is now built on both sides thereof shall be hereafter repaired paved and maintained by such persons as have heretofore used to repair pave and maintain the same under the Penalties aforesaid VII Sir Robert Clayton Sir William Ashhurst Sir Richard Onslow Bart. Denzil Onslow Esq Anthony Bowyer Esq Charles Cox Esq John Arnold Esq Samuel Lewyn Esq Thomas Wymondesal Esq William Gulston Esq Francis Wilkinson Esq Thomas Roffey Esq John Riches Esq Sir John Fleet Sir John Parsons Sir James Houblon Sir Rich. Levett Spencer Cooper Esq Joseph Scriven Esq or any 11 of them shall have Power and Authority to treat and agree with the Owners of such Houses on or near the South end of London Bridge as they shall think fit to be removed rebuilt or pulled down or any part of them and upon payment of such Money as shall be agreed on to appoint Workmen to pull down the said Houses or cause the said Owners to rebuild accordingly VIII And this Act shall indempnify the said Commissioners and all persons Authorized by them as if the same had been sold by Deed and done by Fine and Recovery or any other way And if any person or persons shall wilfully refuse to treat and agree as aforesaid or through Nonage or other Disability cannot in such cases the said Commissioners may issue out a Warrant or Warrants to the Sheriffs of London and Surrey to return a Jury before the said Commissioners or any 11 of them which Jury are upon their Oaths to enquire and assess such Damage and Recompence as they shall judge fit to be awarded to the Owners and Occupiers of any such Houses and such Verdict of the Jury and Judgment of the Commissioners thereupon and the Legal payment or tender of the Money so awarded shall be binding against the Parties their Heirs
the Parish of St. Giles in Colchester XV. Provided That all Goods c. unloaden out of any Ship or Vessel at Wivenhoe and not brought to Colchester or within the Liberties thereof or Laden at Wivenhoe and not first Carried from or through Colchester or the Liberties thereof shall not be liable to the said Duties Oath being made thereof if required before such Collector or any Custom-house Officer XVI The said Mayor and Commonalty by Indenture under their Common Seal with consent of the Commissioners may engage the Profits arising as aforesaid for any Term not exceeding 21 Years to any persons that will upon such Security advance Money for Carrying on the said Work for securing the Repayment thereof with Interest not exceeding 6 per Cent. XVII Provided That if before the end of 21 Years sufficient Moneys shall be raised for the purposes aforesaid and so adjudged by the Commissioners that then after Repayment of the Money so borrowed with Interest the said Duties shall cease XVIII Provided That upon Dispute touching the Weight and Quantity of the Goods liable to the said Duties the Collector may weigh the same and if they prove more than the Collector did insist upon the Owner shall bear the charges of weighing XIX If any persons be proseeuted for Acting in pursuance of this Act they may plead the General Issue and give this Act and the Special Matter in Evidence And if the Prosecutor be Nonsuit or Discontinue or a Verdict or Judgment pass against him the Defendant shall recover Costs XX. Provided That if a New Cut be made through the said Earl of Kents Land called Gravel-Pit-Land it shall be at the Election of the said Earl to have the Value of the Land so severed or to keep the same And if the said Earl shall within Twelve Months after such severance signifie his Election to keep the same the Right thereof shall be Vested in the said Earl and the said Mayor and Commonalty c. shall make a Wall and Bank cross the present Old Chanel at both ends thereof which said Old Chanel shall also be Vested in the said Earl XXI Provided That this Act take not away any Persons Right of Fishing in the said River Salt I. Stat. 9 10 W. 3. cap. 6. After 25 Mar. 1698. No Badger Retailer or other person making or dealing in Salt or buying Salt to sell again shall sell or dispose of any Salt in England or Wales and Town of Berwick otherwise than by Weight after the Rate of 56 Pound Weight to the Bushel and not by measure or any other manner upon Forfeiture of Five Pounds to the Informer who shall prosecute for the same II. The Forfeitures and Offences against this Act shall be determined by any two or more Justices of Peace residing near the place where such Offence was committed But persons agrieved may appeal to the Justices at the next General Quarter Sessions whose Judgment therein shall be final III. All Justices of Peace upon complaint of Offences contrary to this Act are to Summon the Party accused and upon proof of the Matter of Fact by Oath of two or more Witnesses or Confession of the Party to give Judgment and issue out Warrants for Levying such Forfeitures on the Goods and Chattels of the Offender to be sold if not redeemed in six days rendring the Overplus and for want of Distress to Imprison the Offender till satisfaction be made IV. When any Salt shall be Entred to be put on Board any Boat Ship or Vessel or carried by Land and the Duty paid or secured together with all Moneys then or before due and payable by Bond or otherwise on Account of Salt delivered the proper Officer shall upon due Notice by himself or Deputy in the Day time between Sun-rising and Sun-setting attend the Weighing out such Salt without loss of time to the persons that shall Ship off or carry the same upon Forfeiture of 40 s. to be recovered as other Penalties in this Act are directed Seamen I. Stat. 8 9. W. 3. cap. 23. All such persons who by virtue of the Act made the last Session of this Parliament For the Increase and Incouragement of Seamen 7 8. W. 3. cap. 21. are Intituled to the Provisions and Advantages in the Hospital in the said Act mentioned and out of the Revenues thereof shall from time to time be placed in the said Hospital upon Certificates to be produced as by the said Act is directed in succession as the person registred shall be in Course and Order of time upon the Registry Book and the Widows and Children of the persons longest registred before others II. Every Seaman or Mariner who have Liberty and shall be willing to register themselves as by the said Act directed after the 10th of April next bringing such Certificate as the said Act directs under the hand of any one Justice of Peace of the County where he lives may and shall be registred and himself Wife Widow and Children be Intituled to all Advantages given by the said Act as if the Certificate were under the hands of two Justices according to the said Act. The Justice or Justices giving such Certificate are required diligently to enquire into the truth of the same and if occasion be to examine the party upon Oath and if any fraud or deceit appears to certify the Admiralty thereof III. Any persons already registred or who shall hereafter be registred and who then were or shall after be raised to the degree of a Masters Mate in any of the Kings Ships their Wives Widows and Children are declared and enabled to enjoy all and every the Benefits and Advantages given to any other person so registred by the said recited Act. IV. After the said 10th of April all Seamen above the Age of 50 years and who shall appear by the Books of the Navy Office to have served on Board any of the Kings Ships for seven years last past without wilful Disserting shall upon producing Certificates as aforesaid under the hands of one or more Justices of Peace be registred and have and enjoy the several Privileges in the said Act mentioned V. Provided that after the 10th day of April 1699. No Seaman above the Age of 50 years shall be admitted to register himself without giving such Reasons for his omitting to do it during the time of such Service on Board as shall be approved by the Admiralty or Navy or by the persons appointed for keeping the said Register VI. It shall be Lawful for the Commissioners appointed for Registring Seamen by Warrant under their Hands and Seals to cause all Masters and Commanders of Ships not in his Majesties Service to appear before them and discover upon Oath the Number Rates Salaries Wages and Times of Service of all and every persons or person serving in such Ships or Vessels and which by the foresaid Act are obliged to pay 6 d. per mensem out of their Salaries and Wages And if any
A CONTINUATION OF THE ABRIDGMENT Of all the STATUTES OF K. William and Q. Mary AND OF King William the Third In Force and Use Begun by J. Washington of the Midd. Temple Esq Revised and Continued after his Death to the end of the Session of Parliament 27 April 1696. And now further Continued from the beginning of the Second Session of the Third Parliament 20 October 1696. to the end of the Third and last Session of the said Third Parliament 5 July 1698. With Two New Tables LONDON Printed by Charles Bill and the Executrix of Tho. Newcomb deceased Printers to the Kings most Excellent Majesty And by W. Rawlins and S. Roycroft Assigns of Richard and Edward Atkins Esquires MDCXCIX THE TITLES OF THE STATUTES Contained in this ABRIDGMENT WITH THE HEADS Under which they Stand. Anno. 8. W. 3. Part. 3. Sess 2. 1. AN Act for Importing and Coining Guineas and Half-Guineas Coin 2. An Act for the further Remedying the ill State of the Coin of the Kingdom Coin 3. An Act to Explain that part of the Act passed the last Session of Parliament for Laying several Duties on Low Wines and Spirits of the first Extraction and for Preventing the Frauds and Abuses of Brewers Distillers and other Persons chargeable with the Duties of Excise which Relates to the Payment of Tallies and the Interest thereof Excise 4. An Act to Attaint Sir John Fenwick Baronet of High Treason Treason 5. An Act to Attaint such of the Persons concerned in the late Horrid Conspiracy to Assassinate his Majesties Royal Person who are fled from Justice unless they render themselves to Justice and for continuing several others of the said Conspirators in Custody Treason 6. An Act for Granting an Aid to his Majesty as well by a Land Tax as by several Subsidies and other Duties payable for One Year Taxes Anno 8 9 W. 3. 7. An Act for Granting to his Majesty several Duties upon Paper Vellum and Parchment to Encourage the bringing of Plate and Hammered Money into the Mints to be Coined Taxes 8. An Act for Incouraging the bringing in Wrought Plate to be Coined Coin 9. An Act to Restore the Market at Blackwell Hall to the Clothiers and for Regulating the Factors there Blackwell-Hall 10. An Act to Enable the Returns of Juries as formerly until the first day of November One thousand six hundred ninety seven Iuries 11. An Act for the better preventing Frivolous and Vexatious Suits Snits 12. An Act for continuing certain Additional Impositions upon several Goods and Merchandizes Customs 13. An Act for continuing several former Acts for Punishing Officers and Soldiers who shall Mutiny or Desert his Majesties Service and for Punishing False Musters and for Payment of Quarters for One year longer Soldiers 14. An Act for the Compleating the Building and Adorning the Cathedral Charch of St. Paul London and for Repairing the Collegiate Church of St. Peter Westminster Churches 15. An Act for Repairing the Highway between Ryegate in the County of Surrey and Crawley in the County of Sussex High-ways 16. An Act for Enlarging Common High-ways High-ways 17. An Act for Paving and Regulating the Hay-Market in the Parishes of St. Martins in the Fields and St. James within the Liberty of Westminster Hay-Market 18. An Act for Relief of Creditors by making Compositions with their Debtors in Case Two thirds in Number and Value do Agree Creditors 19. An Act for Repealing a Clause in a former Act relating to Party Guiles and for the better preventing Frauds and Abuses of Brewers and others Chargeable with the Duties of Excise Excise 20. An Act for making good the Deficiences of several Funds therein mentioned and for Enlarging the Capital stock of the Bank of England and for Raising the Publick Credit Taxes 21. An Act for Laying a Duty upon Leather for the Term of Three years and making other Provision for Answering the Deficiences as well of the late Duties upon Coals and Culm as for Paying the Annuities upon the Lottery and for Lives charged on the Tunnage of Ships and the Duties upon Salt Taxes 22. An Act for Granting to his Majesty certain Duties upon Malt Mum Sweets Cyder and Perry as well towards Carrying on the War against France as for the necessary Expence of his Majesties Houshold and other Occasions Excise 23. An Act to enforce the Act for the Increase and Incouragement of Seamen Seamen 24. An Act for Granting to his Majesty a further Subsidy of Tunnage and Poundage upon Merchandizes Imported for the Term of Two years and Three quarters and an Additional Land Tax for One year for Carrying on the War against France Customs 25. An Act for Licensing Hawkers and Pedlars for a further Provision for payment of the Interest of the Transport Debt for the Reducing of Ireland Taxes 26. An Act for the better Preventing the Counterfeiting the Current Coin of this Kingdom Coin 27. An Act for the more effectual Relief of Creditors in Cases of Escapes and for preventing Abuses in Prisons and pretended Privileged Places Prisons c. 28. An Act for the better Observation of the Course Anciently Used in the Receipt of Exchequer Exchequer 29. An Act for the Repair of the Peers of Bridlington alias Burlington in the East-Riding of the County of York Burlington 30. An Act for supplying some Defects in the Laws for the Relief of the Poor of this Kingdom Poor 31. An Act for the easier obtaining Partitions of Lands in Coparcenary Joynt Tenancy and Tenancy in Common Partitions 32. An Act to restrain the number and ill Practices of Brokers and Stock-Jobbers Brokers 33. An Act to make perpetual and more effectual an Act Intituled An Act to prevent delays at the Quarter Sessions of the Peace Iustices of Peace 34. An Act for the Lessening the Duty upon Tin and Pewter Exported and Granting an Equivalent for the same by a Duty upon Drugs Customs 35. An Act for Raising the Militia for the Year One thousand six hundred ninety seven although the Months Pay formerly advanced be not repaid Militia 36. An Act for the further Encouragement of the Manufacture of Lustrings and Alamodes within this Realm and for the better preventing the Importation of the same Trade 37. An Act for Explaining and Enforcing the Act for Paving and Cleansing the Streets within the Cities of London and Westminster and Borough of Southwark and Weekly Bills of Mortality and Streets adjoyning thereunto And for Widening the Street at the South end of London-Bridge London Anno 9 W. 3. Part. 3. Sess 3. 1. An Act against Corresponding with the late King James and his Adherents Treason 2. An Act to prevent the further Currency of any Hammered Silver Coin of this Kingdom and for recoining such as is now in being and for the making out new Exchequer Bills where the former Bills are or shall be filled up by Indorsements Coin 3. An Act to give further time for the Administring of Oaths relating to Talleys and Orders and for the easier
four days the Goods to be appraised by two or more Inhabitants and to be sold and the overplus above the Assesment and Charges of Distress to be immediately restored to the Owner Churches I. STat. 8 9 W. 3. cap. 14. For Compleating the Building and Adorning the Cathedral of St. Paul London and for Repairing the Cathedral of St Peter Westminster It is Enacted That for all Coals and Culm Imported into the Port of London from the 29th of September 1700. until the 29th of September 1716. there shall be paid for every Chalder of Coals or Culm One Shilling and for every Tun of such as are sold by Weight One Shilling which said Imposition of One Shilling shall be Levied and Paid in such manner and form and under such penalties as are exprest and directed by the Act 1 Jac. 2. cap. 15 The Articles Rules and Clauses of which Act except otherwise hereafter provided shall be of such force and effect as if the same were particularly set down and Enacted by this Act. II. All Moneys Levied by this Act shall be disposed as herein after mentioned And the Archbishop of Ganterbury the Bishop of London and Lord Mayor of London for the time being or any two of them shall have such Powers and Authorities unless otherwise herein after directed as they had by the said former Act. III. One Sixth part of all Moneys which shall be raised by virtue of this Act shall be appropriated and disposed to the Repairing of the Collegiate Church of St. Peter in Westminster and the said Archbishop of Canterbury Bishop of London and Lord Mayor of London for the time being or any two of them shall during the Continuance of this Act pay or cause to be paid to the Chancellour of the Exchequer the Lord Chief Justice of the Kings Bench and the Dean of the said Church for the time being Commissioners hereby appointed for Repairing the said Church the said Sixth part of such Moneys by Quarterly Payments the first Payment to be made on the Thirtieth of December 1700. Which said Money shall be laid out and expended in Repairing the said Collegiate Church And the like Books of Accounts to be inspected by any person gratis shall be kept by the Commissioners and the like Abstract of such Books of Accounts shall be yearly transmitted into the Exchequer in such manner as is directed to the said Archbishop Bishop and Lord Mayor in the aforesaid Act. IV. The said Archbishop Bishop and Lord Mayor may deduct yearly out of the sums to be by them paid as aforesaid one Sixth part to their Deputies and Officers for their Collecting the Duties hereby continued and Inspecting the Coal-Meters V. The said Commissioners or any Two of them may by Indenture under their hands and seals engage the Profits arising out of the sums hereby Granted towards the Repairing of the said Collegiate Church as a Security for Money by them to be borrowed for the intent and purpose aforesaid which Money is to be imployed accordingly VI. A sum not exceeding Three thousand Pounds part of the Duty hereby Granted shall in Four Years be paid towards the Building the Parish-Church of St. Thomas in Southwark according to such Directions as the President Treasurer and Governours of the Hospital there with allowance of the foresaid Archbishop Bishop and Lord Mayor or any two of them shall approve and allow VII After the 29th of September 1697. the Stipend or Allowance of the Surveyor General of the Building of the said Cathedral of St. Paul shall be paid one Moiety yearly and the other Moiety in one intire sum within Six Months after the finishing the said Cathedral and not before Coin I. STat. 8 W. 3. cap. 1. The Act past in the First Sessions of this present Parliament Intituled An Act for taking off the Obligation and Encouragement for Coining Guineas for a certain time therein mentioned and all things therein contained except what relates to the Recompences by the said Act appointed to be applied to the Silver Mints and what concerns the African Company shall be Repealed and utterly made Void and all persons may freely Import into this Kingdom Guineas and Half-Guineas as they might before the making the said Act. II. The Master and other Officers of the Mint in the Tower of London shall on or before the Tenth day of November 1696. prepare and set apart one or more Mill or Mills with other Conveniencies to be imployed for the Coinage of Gold which shall be brought thither by any persons Natives or Foreigners to be Received in Coined and Delivered out in such manner as by the Statute made 18 Car. 2. is directed so that the Course in Coinage of Gold and Silver be kept in distinct Accounts and not interfere and such Coining and Delivering out of Gold in a distinct Course although there be Silver remaining there Uncoined shall not be interpreted any undue Preference any thing in the said Statute of 18 Car. 2. notwithstanding III. Stat. 8 W. 3. cap. 2. All Hammered Silver Money Clipped or Unclipped as shall be brought to any of his Majesties Mints between the Fourth of November 1696. and the First of July 1697. shall be received there at the Rate of 5 s. 4 d. per Ounce Troy IV. All his Majesties Receivers or other Officers concerned in the Receipt or Collection of his Majesties Aids Taxes or other Revenues or of any Loans shall and are hereby required to receive in payment all such Hammered Silver Coin as shall be Tendred for any Aids Taxes or other Revenues or upon Loans at any time after the Fourteenth of November 1696. until the First of February next following as to Loans and all Arrears of Aids Taxes or Revenues due before the said First of February and until the First of June then next following as to all future Aids Taxes and other Revenues at the Rate of 5 s. 8 d. per Ounce And the Tender Payment or Loan of every Ounce of such Hammered Silver Coin shall be as good for the sum of 5 s. 8 d. as if the said sum of 5 s. 8 d. had been Tendred Paid or Lent in Lawful Current Coin V. After the First of December 1696. no Hammered Silver Coin of this Kingdom shall be Current in any Payment except such as before mentioned otherwise than by Weight only after the Rate of 5 s. 2 d. per Ounce of Sterling Silver VI. All such Hammered Money consisting only of Pieces having both the Rings or the greatest part of the Letters or Six Pences of Sterling Silver not Clipt within the innermost Ring as have been before the Eighteenth Day of November 1696. actually received by any Commissioner Receiver General or other Receiver or Collector by Tale for any Publick Tax or Revenue whatsoever shall and may be paid by them by Tale and not by Weight within the times hereafter following viz. Every particular Receiver or Collector shall have time to make his Payments to the Head Collector
this Act at 5 s. 4 d. per oz. shall be Melted down and Coin'd into Mill Money and applied and placed to the Accounts of the particular Revenues to which the same did belong and shall be disposed accordingly so far as it will extend without being diverted to any other Use than such as the same is appropriated unto by Parliament XXI Stat. 8 9. W. 3. cap. 26. For preventing the Counterfeiting the Coin It is Enacted That after 15 May 1697. no Smith Ingraver Founder or other person whatsoever except such as are Imploy'd in his Majesties Mints for the use of the said Mints only or persons Lawfully Authorized by the Lords of the Treasury shall knowingly make or mend any Punchion Counter-punchion Matrix Stamp Dye Pattern or Mold of Steel Iron Silver or other Metal or of Spaud or Fine Founders Earth or Sand or other Materials whatsoever by which shall be Made or Impressed the Figure Stamp or similitude of both or either side of any Gold or Silver Coin Current within this Kingdom or make or mend any Edger Instrument or Engine contrived for making of Money round the Edges with Letters Grainings or other Marks resembling those on the Edges of Money Coin'd in the Kings Mint nor any Press for Coinage or Cutting Engine for cutting round Blanks nor knowingly buy sell or hide or without Lawful Authority or Excuse have in his House or Possession any such Tool or Instrument before mention'd And any person whatsoever except as before who shall offend in any the matters aforesaid every such Offender his Aiders and Abetters shall be guilty of High Treason XXII If any person after the said 15 May shall without Lawful Authority wittingly Convey out of any of the Kings Mints any of the said or other Instruments used about Coining of Money there or any useful part of such Instruments such persons so Offending their Aiders and Abetters shall be guilty of High Treason XXIII If any person other than such as are Imploy'd in the Kings Mints or who have Authority from the Lords of the Treasury shall after the said time mark on the Edges any the Current Coin of this Kingdom or any Diminisht Coin of this Kingdom or any Counterfeit Coin resembling the Coin of this Kingdom with Letters Grainings or other Marks like those on the Edges of Money Coin'd at the Kings Mint every such Offence shall be High Treason and the Offenders shall suffer accordingly XXIV If any person after the said time shall Colour Guild or Case over with Gold or Silver or any Wash or Materials producing the Colour of Gold or Silver any Coin resembling the current Coin of this Kingdom or any Round Blanks of base Metal or of course Gold or Silver of the size of Mill'd Money or Guild over silver Blanks to be Coin'd into pieces resembling the current Gold Coin of this Kingdom every such person his Aider and Abetter shall be guilty of High Treason XXV If any Punchion Dye c. used or designed for Coining or Counterfeiting of Gold or Silver Money shall at any time after the said 15 May be hid conceal'd or found in the House or Possession of any person not imploy'd in some of the Kings Mints or having the same by some Lawful Authority any person may seize the same and carry them forthwith to some Justice of Peace to be produced in Evidence against the person who shall or may be prosecuted for such Offence and after such producing in Evidence the same shall be totally defaced and destroyed by Order of Court or in the presence of the same or some other Justice of Peace XXVI And if after the said 15 May any counterfeit or diminisht Money shall be produced in Evidence or otherwise that immediately after such producing the said Money shall be cut in pieces in open Court or in the presence of some Justice of Peace and then deliver'd to the Rightful Owner XXVII If any person after the said time shall Blanch Copper for sale or mix Blancht Copper with Silver or knowingly buy or sell or offer to sell such or buy or sell any Malleable Composition or Mixture of Metals or Minerals which shall be heavier than Silver and look and wear like Standard Gold but be manifestly worse than Standard or shall receive pay or put off any counterfeit Mill'd Money or Mill'd Money unlawfully diminisht and not cut in pieces at a lower Rate than the same by its denomination shall import every such person shall be guilty of Felony and suffer Death as in case of Felony XXVIII This Act shall not extend to make any Corruption of Blood or loss of Dower And all persons who after the said 15th of May shall be accused of any Treason or Felony by this Act shall be tried in such manner as is used against Offenders for Counterfeiting the Kings Money XXIX All and every the Crimes mention'd in an Act made 6 7 W. 3. Intituled An Act to prevent Counterfeiting and Clipping the Coin of this Kingdom may be heard and determined upon Indictment or Presentment either in the Court of Kings Bench or before the Justices of Assize XXX This Act to continue and be in force till the end of the next Session of Parliament and no longer and no prosecution shall be made upon this Act unless commenced within Three Months after the Offence committed XXXI Stat. 9. W. 3. cap. 2. After 10 Jan. 1697 no Hammered Silver Coin of this Kingdom shall be esteemed the lawful Coin of this Realm nor be current in any payment at any Rate or Value by Weight or otherwise nor shall the Tender of any such Hammer'd Silver Money after the said 10 Jan. be deemed a good Tender in Law nor the Refusal thereof in any payment be adjudged a Refusal of the lawful Coins of this Kingdom XXXII Provided that any persons may carry into any of the Mints in the Tower of London or in the Cities of Bristol Exeter Chester Norwich and York before 1 Mar. 1697. any Old Hammer'd Money to be Recoined And the Master or Worker of every such Mint or his Deputy is to receive the same and cause it to be melted down and Recoin'd into the lawful Coins of this Kingdom and pay back the same so Recoin'd by 25 Mar. 1698. to the several Importers XXXIII The Commissioners of the Treasury or any three of them may cause new Exchequer Bills to be made forth and deliver'd to such persons as shall demand them in lieu of such Bills as shall be brought in filled up with Indorsements which Old Bills shall be cancelled and kept apart from all other Bills whatsoever And such New Bills shall have the like Currency and the same punishment shall be inflicted for Forging or Counterfeiting the same and they shall be subject to the same Rules Methods and Continuance as the Old Bills were and shall bear the same Numbers Dates Principal Sums and Rate of Interest per diem as were born on the Old
Executors Administrators and Assigns and all others claiming any Interest in the said Houses or Ground whereon they stand and shall be a full Authority for the said Commissioners or any 11 of them to cause the said Houses to be removed and pulled down IX None shall Act as a Commissioner to the purposes aforesaid till Sworn before the Lord Chancellor or Lord Keeper for the Due and Impartial execution of the Trust reposed in him Malt. I. STat. 9 10. W. 3. cap. 22. Whereas there hath been some doubt whether the Act made 39 Eliz. Intituled An Act to restrain the Excessive making of Malt be now in Force yet nevertheless several Justices of Peace at their Quarter Sessions have made Orders to Restrain Malsters from Buying of Barley for Malting and from Exercising the Imploy of Malting for a year to the lessening his Majesties Revenue by the Duty of 6 d. per Bushel laid on Malt and a Discouragement to Malsters Enacted That the said Act of A. 39 Eliz. be Repealed and all Orders made by Justices of Peace for Restraining Malsters from making of Malt since the said Duty of 6 d. per Bushel was laid on Malt are hereby Vacated Militia I. Stat. 8 9. W. 3. cap. 35. If at any time before 25 Apr. 1698. It shall be found by his Majesty to be necessary for the Defence of this Kingdom to draw out the Militia Soldiers into actual Service and the same shall be signified to the respective Lieutenants Deputy Lieutenants c. It shall be Lawful for the said Lieutenants c. notwithstanding that one or more Months Pay before that time advanced be not reimbursed to raise and draw out the said Soldiers into actual Service and to cause the persons charged to provide each their Soldier with Pay in hand not exceeding one months Pay II. Stat. 9 10. W. 3. cap. 31. If at any time before 24 June 1699. It shall be found necessary by his Majesty for the defence and safety of this Kingdom to draw out into actual Service the Soldiers mentioned and appointed in and by the Act made Anno 13 14 Car. 2. Intituled An Act for Ordering the Forces in the several Counties of this Kingdom and the same shall be declared and signified by his Majesty to the respective Lieutenants or Deputy-Lieutenants and the Warden of the Cinque-ports c. It shall be lawful for the said Lieutenants or their Deputies or any three or more of them and the Warden of the Cinque ports or his Lieutenant in pursuance of such Orders from his Majesty notwithstanding that one or more months Pay before that time advanced be not reimbursed to raise and draw out the said Soldiers into actual Service charged with Pay in hand not exceeding one months Pay III. Papists or reputed Papists and persons refusing to take the Oaths mentioned in the Act 1 W. M. Intituled An Act for abrogating the Oaths of Supremacy and Allegiance and appointing other Oaths chargeable in respect of their Estates to the finding a Horse Horseman and Arms or a Foot Soldier and Arms the Lieutenants or Deputy-Lieutenants of the County or Division where such Estates do lye or three or more of them may appoint such person as they shall think meet to furnish one or more Horsemen or Foot-Soldiers and Arms for the said Estates and may charge the said Estates with 8 l for a Horse Horseman and Arms and 30 s. for every Foot-Soldier and Arms And if the persons so chargeable neglect or refuse to pay the same on demand the said Lieutenants or Deputy-Lieutenants may levy the same by Distress and Sale of Goods of such Papists c. or upon their Tenants and the Arrears for the like Services already performed to be determined by three or more Deputy-Lieutenants rendring the Overplus the charge in levying thereof being first deducted And the Tenants so distrain'd on may deduct the same out of their Rents IV. Where two or more persons are charged to find any Horse or Foot-Soldier and Arms three or more Deputy-Lieutenants of the County or Division may direct who shall find the Horse and Arms or Foot-Soldier and Arms and who shall be the Contributors and settle the Payments by every Contributor if not ascertained by the Parties And such Contributor or his Tenant not paying his proportion upon demand three or more of the Deputy-Lieutenants of the County or Division may levy the same by Distress and Sale of Goods of the person so neglecting or refusing to pay rendring the Overplus the charge in levying being first deducted And the Tenant may deduct the Sum so charged out of the Rent payable to his Landlord Oaths I. STat. 9. W. 3. cap. 3. All persons who since 10 June 1697. or before the said 10 June have bought any Orders or parts of Orders or Talleys and have or shall neglect to take Assignments and Register the same and to make an Oath thereupon concerning the Praemium or Allowance within the 10 days limited by the Act Ann. 8 9 W. 3. Intituled An Act for making good the Deficiencies of several Funds therein mentioned and for enlarging the Capital Stock of the Bank of England and for Raising the Publick Credit and their Executors Administrators Successors and Assigns shall have liberty for the doing thereof till 10 June 1698. And the Officers Impowered by the said former Act to Administer the said Oaths within the times thereby limited are to Administer the like Oaths within the times by this Act appointed II. Where Orders of Loan or Talleys were actually bought before 10 June 1697. and Oath there of shall be made by 10 June 1698. before the persons appointed by the said former Act for Administring the other Oaths concerning the Praemium or Allowance the persons claiming such Orders or Talleys by Assignments not Registred or by Indorsements only shall not be obliged to take the said other Oath concerning the Praemium And where the respective Oath shall be duly made pursuant to this Act touching such Orders or Talleys as aforesaid the Assignment thereof shall be as effectual as if the Oath had been made within the time limited by the said former Act. III. After 10 Jan. 1697. The Officers of the Exchequer may upon request of the persons Intituled to Orders and Talleys of Loan take in and cancel so many of the said Orders as follow successively in number and course and are of the same date and payable to one and the same person or Corporation and whereof the Interest has been paid to one and the same time together with the Talleys belonging to such Orders and to give them as few Orders and Talleys in lieu thereof and of the same value and course of payment as shall be desired no one such new Order containing above 5000 l. Upon which new Orders shall be Indorsed how far the Interest hath been satisfied and to whom last Assigned Which said new Orders and Talleys shall be valid to all intents and
or Fleet Prisons longer than while they are actually in possession of such Chambers and not above 2 s. 6 d. per Week and if the Keeper of any Prison take more to Forfeit 20 l. XVI After the said 1 May All persons having Moneys owing from any person in any pretended Privileg'd Place as White Fryars Savoy Salisbury Court Ram-Alley Mitre Court Fullers Rents Baldwyns Gardens Mountague Close or the Minories Mint Clink or Deadmans Place may upon a Legal Process taken out Require the Sheriffs of London and Middlesex the Head Bayliff of the Dutchy Liberty or the High Sheriff of Surrey or Bayliff of Southwark or their Deputies or Officers to take the Posse Comitatus and Arrest such person or Seize their Goods upon Execution or Extent And such Sheriffs or Officers neglecting or refusing to Forfeit to the Plaintiff 100 l. And every person Opposing or Resisting such Officers shall Forfeit 50 l. and be sent to Goal till the next Assizes c. and suffer such Imprisonment and be set in the Pillory as the Court shall think fit XVII And if any Rescous be made of any such Prisoner the persons aiding therein shall respectively Forfeit to the Plaintiff 500 l. XVIII Which Forfeiture with Costs of Suit not being paid within One Month after Judgment for the Recovery thereof the person so refusing or neglecting shall be Transported to some of the Plantations for Seven years and returning again within the Seven years to be guilty of Felony without Benefit of Clergy XIX And the persons inhabiting within any such pretended Privileg'd Places harbouring any person who shall have made such Rescous shall be Transported as aforesaid unless they pay the Plaintiff the whole Debt and Costs within One Month after Conviction XX. The Penalties in this Act to go one half to his Majesty and the other half to the Prosecutor XXI This Act shall be taken to be a general Law and not necessary to be set forth in Pleading Any person Sued for putting it in Execution may Plead the general Issue and give the Act in Evidence and if upon a Verdict Discontinuance or Demurrer Judgment pass for the Defendant he shall have double Costs XXII Saving to Martha Johnson Widow and her Children their Claim to the Houses and Shops belonging to the Fleet. And this Act not to lessen the Security for Money out of the Mashalship of the Kings Bench Prison made by William Lenthall Esq to Sir John Cutler Bart. decased or to his Executor Edmund Boulter Esq XXIII And saving to Anthony Smith Mariner his Heirs c. their Claim to the Office of Warden of the Fleet or to the Prison or Houses and Shops thereto belonging after a Mortgage made thereof by Thomas Bromhall unto Henry Norwood Esq with a Proviso for Thomas Norwood Surviving Executor of Henry Norwood touching a Mortgage of the said Office of Warden for 2153 l. And for John Clements Gent. for a like Mortgage for 2299 l. XXIV All Deputations c. made heretofore by William Lenthall Esq of the said Office of Marshal of the Marshalsea of the Kings Bench Prison are declared void and all succeeding Marshals shall be appointed by the said William Lenthall with the Consent of Edmund Boulter Esq till the Debt owing to the said Edmund Boulter as Executor to the said Sir John Cutler be satisfied Religion I. STat. 9 10 W. 3. cap. 32. For Suppressing Blasphemy and Profaneness It is Enacted That such persons as having been Educated in or having made Profession of the Christian Religion within this Realm and shall by Writing Printing Teaching or Advised Speaking deny any one of the Persons in the Holy Trinity to be GOD or shall assert or maintain there are more Gods than One or shall deny the Christian Religion to be True or the Holy Scriptures of the Old and New Testament to be of Divine Authority and be thereof lawfully Convicted shall for the First Offence be incapable to have or enjoy any Offices or Imployments Ecclesiastical Civil or Military or any part in them or profit by them and the Offices Places and Imployments enjoyed by such persons at their Conviction shall be Void And being a second time Convicted of any the aforesaid Crimes shall be Disabled to Sue Prosecute Plead or Use any Action or Information in Law or Equity or be Guardian of any Child or Executor or Administrator of any person or capable of any Legacy or Deed of Gift or to bear any Office Civil or Military or Benefice Ecclesiastical for ever within this Realm and shall suffer Three Years Imprisonment from the time of such Conviction without Bail or Mainprize II. No person shall be Prosecuted by Virtue of this Act for Words spoken unless the Information be given upon Oath before some Justice of Peace within Four days and the Prosecution be within Three Months after such Information III. Persons Convicted of any of the said Crimes shall for the First Offence upon Renouncing such Erroneous Opinions in the Court where Convicted within Four Months after Conviction be Discharged from all Penalties and Disabilities incurred by such Conviction Rivets I. Stat. 9 10 W. 3. cap. 19. For cleansing and making Navigable the Chanel from Hithe at Colchester to Wivenhoe It is Enacted That for 21 Years from 1 May 1698. All Merchants or Owners of Goods Wares and Merchandizes that shall be brought into the River and Chanel commonly called Colne and shall be Landed at or Shipped from Wivenhoe or the New Hithe in Colchester or between either of the said places shall pay to the Collectors to be chosen towards the cleansing and making Navigable the said River and Chanel the Duties hereafter expressed viz. For every Bay Say or Perpetuane One Half peny per piece For every Tun of Timber six pence For every Tun of Chalk for Lime three pence For every Tun of Paving Stone six pence For every Tun of all other kind of Stones or of Tobacco-pipe Clay Ashes or Pan Tyles and for every Chalder of Fullers Earth or Chalder of Sea Coal twelve pence For every Tun of Oyl three shillings For every Tun of Wines or Brandy five shillings And for every Tun of all other Goods Wares and Merchandizes two shillings and so proportionably for a greater or lesser Quantity of the foresaid Goods to be paid before the said Goods c. shall be Landed and Delivered out by the Merchant or Owner to the Uses aforesaid II. All which Money shall be paid to the Collectors upon Demand to be by them paid over to such person as shall be appointed the General Receiver by the Mayor Aldermen Assistants and Common Councel of the Borough of Colchester for the Uses aforesaid III. In case of Failure of payment of the said Duties the Collectors so soon as such Goods c. shall be Landed or Delivered out or Laden into any Ship or Vessel may Distrain so much of the said Goods as may answer the said Duties with Costs and Charges of
Distraining and keep the same till the said Duties be satisfied and if not paid within Ten days then to sell the same IV. The said Mayor and Aldermen or their Assignees may by the 25th of Decemb. 1698. Design and Lay out where such Chanel or River shall be made enlarged opened and continued between Wivenhoe and the New Hithe and what points or parcels of Land are fit to be Cut and Laid out for making or enlarging such Chanel as to them their Deputies and Workmen with the allowance of the Commissioners hereafter mentioned or any Five of them shall seem meet so as such Land so to be laid out exceed not One hundred Foot in breadth in any place V. It shall be lawful for the said Mayor and Commonalty their Assignees and Workmen to Cut and Dig the Land so laid out and make new or larger all the passages for Water through such Land being the Ground or Soil of any person whatsoever between Wivenhoe aforesaid and the New Hithe and to remove all Gravel Beds of Ouze or any other Impediment to the Navigation and lay the Earth Soil and Stuff thence digged on any side of the Bank of such Chanel and have free passage for Cutting Cleansing or Amending the same and to do all other necessary Matters for carrying on the said Undertaking VI. But not to make any new Cut through any Land belonging to Anthony Earl of Kent other than one piece called Gravel-Pit-Land the Cut through the same not exceeding 40 Perches or Poles in length and other than two other pieces called Forelands belonging to the said Earl the Cut through the same not exceeding 45 Perches in length in either of them Nor shall the Cut be made on the Land-side of the Wall or Bank there nor so near as to prejudice such Wall or Bank Nor to make any Cut through any Land belonging to Nicholas Corsellis Esq other than one piece called The Reede Point the Cut through the same not exceeding 45 Perches or Poles in length And in case any Wall Sluce or Bank for the defence or benefit of the Lands of the said Earl of Kent or Nicholas Corsellis or any other person or persons be damnified in Cutting or Cleansing the said Chanel the said Mayor and Commonalty shall make good the same And that no part of the Ground or Soil so dug shall be thrown on the Land-side of any persons Ground without the Licence of the respective Owners thereof but only upon the Walls or Banks or the Border of the said Chanel or some place between the Walls and Chanel And for such points of Land as shall be severed from the main Land by making a new Cut the like satisfaction shall be made as to the Owners of such Land through which such Chanel shall be made or enlarged And upon payment of the Money agreed on for the said Points so severed the said Points or Parcels of Land shall be together with the New Chanel vested in the said Mayor and Commonalty and their Successors for ever VII Provided That if the said Mayor and Commonalty shall not repair and make good the Premisses so damnified they shall answer double Damages besides Costs of Suit to the Owner or Proprietor of such Lands or Premisses to be recovered by Action of Trespass or upon the Case VIII Provided That the said Mayor and Commonalty shall make satisfaction to the Owners of such Land or such as may sustain any Damage thereby and proportion the satisfaction in respect thereof and what Share any Tenant or other person shall have for the same And in case any person refuse to Agree or through Disability by Nonage or otherwise cannot the said Commissioners shall issue their Warrants to the Sheriff of Essex for Impanelling and Returning a Jury or Juries who being Sworn shall enquire of and assess such Damages as they shall judge fit And the said Commissioners shall give Judgment for such sums so assessed by the Juries and by Examination upon Oath c. shall hear and determine all Controversies touching the Premisses IX Which said Judgments pronounced by the Commissioners Notice in Writing being first given of their Meeting to every Party concerned or left for them shall be Binding And being in Writing under the Hands and Seals of such Commissioners shall be kept among the Records of the Sessions of Peace for Colchester for all persons to resort to without Fee or Reward and shall be taken as Evidence in any Court of Record X. Upon payment of the Mony so agreed on or decreed or tender thereof or refusing to receive the same so tendred then upon payment thereof to such persons as the Commissioners shall appoint for the use of the persons interested therein and not before the said Mayor and Commonalty their Workmen Agents and Servants may Dig and Cut any such Land as aforesaid or do any such further Act for making the said Chanel and River Navigable And the said Mayor and Commonalty Commissioners and Persons Authorized by them shall be Indempnified against the Heirs Executors Administrators and Assigns of such Owners as if such Land had been sold or conveyed from them to the said Mayor and Commonalty and their Successors XI The said Mayor Aldermen c. may from time to time during the said 21 Years nominate and choose Collectors of the Money payable as aforesaid who shall pay the same to the Receiver General for the Use of the said Mayor and Commonalty for the purposes aforesaid and no other XII The Mayor of Colchester for the time being and the Justices of Peace for the East Division of Essex for the time being shall be Commissioners for the purposes aforesaid and take the Accounts of the Receipts and Disbursements of the Money Collected and Levyed during the said Term and shall and may call before them such Collectors or Receivers and all other persons Intrusted with the Collection or management thereof who shall give an Account thereof in Writing upon Oath And the said Commissioners may Order the Moneys remaining upon such Account to be laid out for the purposes aforesaid And if any such Collectors Receivers or others refuse to give such Account or pay the Moneys then due as the said Commissioners shall direct they or any five of them may commit such persons to the Common Goal of the said Town till they shall give such Account and pay the Money due thereupon XIII Every such Collector and Receiver shall before the Execution of such Office take an Oath for the true Executing the same before the said Mayor XIV After 1 May 1698. no Goods Wares or Merchandizes except Wood or Timber shall be laden or unladen at any Key or Wharf in the said River or Chanel but only at Wivenhoe and the New Hithe aforesaid on pain of Forfeiting to the said Mayor c. 5 l. for the uses aforesaid But not to prohibit the lading or unlading of any Goods at or from the late erected Wharf of Giles Sayer in
such Master or Commander shall upon Summons refuse to appear or to give a full discovery of the matter aforesaid upon Oath every such Offender shall forfeit the Sum of 10 l. to the uses mentioned in the said Act to be recovered by Action of Debt c. in any of the Kings Courts at Westminster with full Costs Provided such Masters be no Quakers VII Every Master being a Quaker may be examined before the said Commissioners three or more of them by their solemn Affirmation and Declaration instead of their Oath as is directed by the Act 7 8. w. 3. cap. 34. and such Quakers refusing to appear or Answer as aforesaid shall be liable to the said penalties and forfeitures before mention'd for refusing to Answer upon Oath VIII Whatever person or persons so registred as aforesaid shall after the 10th of April next directly or indirectly lend or dispose of his or their Certificate of being registred according to the foresaid Statute to any Waterman Seaman Fisherman Lighterman Keel-man Bargeman or Sea-faring Man whereby to keep such persons from being Impressed into his Majesties Service such Offenders shall be struck out of the Register and lose the benefit of the foresaid Act and be Compell'd to Serve in his Majesties Service Six Months without any pay And every person borrowing or taking for themselves or other persons such Certificates or using the same for the purposes aforesaid shall suffer the like penalties and to the same uses as are provided by the said Act against such as vouch falsly persons to be Landmen who are Seamen or shall be compelled to serve the King at Sea for six Months without any Pay or Wages IX Such Certificates as aforesaid under the Hand and Seal of any one Mayor Deputy Mayor Bayliff or Deputy Bayliff within the Jurisdiction of the Cinque-Ports shall be sufficient where no Justice of Peace shall be residing within three Miles of any Cinque-Port or Town or Member thereof on the Coast of Kent and Sussex Ships and Shipping I. Stat. 9 10. W. 3. cap. 36. Enacted That 2000 Acres part of the Wast Lands of the New Forest in the County of Southampton shall be inclosed and kept in severalty for the Growth and Preservation of Timber for supply of his Majesties Navy Royal. The King his Heirs and Successors may Inclose and Improve within and out of the Wast Lands of the said New Forest the whole Containing by Estimation 85454 Acres the quantity of 2000 Acres Statute measure to be set out by his Majesties Commission directed to six or more persons whereof two to be Justices of the Peace for Hampshire not being Officers of the said Forest out of such part of the said Forest as shall be found by three or more of the Commissioners most convenient to be Inclosed and most apt to produce Wood and Timber and may be best spared from the Commoners and High-ways whereof One thousand shall be forthwith Admeasured Set out Inclosed Butted and Bounded and the Quantities Buts and Boundaries returned into the Exchequer to remain on Record and the remaining One thousand Acres immediately after the first Session of Parliament which shall be held after the year 1699. shall in like manner be Admeasured Inclosed and the Boundaries returned into the Exchequer There may also be Inclosed 200 Acres more of the Wast in the said Forest yearly for 20 years after the several Inclosures of the said 2000 Acres shall be compleated The said Inclosures to remain in severalty in the actual possession of the Crown for ever clear from all manner of Right Title or Pretence and shall be kept a Nursery for Wood and Timber only II. Any Six of the said Commissioners with one of the Purveyors of the Navy shall set out so many decayed Trees not being Ship Timber as shall be necessary to make the said Inclosure III. When the Commissioners of the Treasury the Lord Treasurer or Chancellor of the Exchequer shall be satisfied that the Woods and Trees growing on the said 2000 Acres or any part thereof are out of danger of Brousing of Deer Cattle or other prejudice and shall thereupon lay the same open then the King his Heirs and Successors may inclose out of the said Forest in lieu of so much so laid open the like quantity out of any other part of the said Wastes to be set out by like Commission and Admeasurement as aforesaid free of all Herbage Pannage or other Rights while inclosed to be a Nursery for Timber as aforesaid instead of so much as shall be laid open And when any Wood or Timber is to be felled in any part of the said Forest two or more of the Verderers and four or more of the Regarders of the said Forest shall have notice thereof and shall not be felled till first viewed and allowed to be felled by a Commissioner or Officer of the Navy Nor shall any Coppice Woods be cut till the Surveyor of the Woods or such Officer or Purveyor of the Navy shall have marked with a Broad-Arrow and Crown such Trees as are fit to be reserved for Timber and shall certifie to the Lord Treasurer or Commissioners of the Treasury the Names of the places and number of Trees so viewed and allowed to be felled and so marked to be preserved for the use of the Navy And if any persons shall fell any such Wood or Trees before view and Allowance or cut down any of the said marked Trees without good Warrant they shall forfeit for every Tree so felled 50 l. one Moiety to the King the other to them that will sue for the same IV. The said Inclosures shall not be plowed or sowed with Corn or fed with Cattle or kept for Underwood but in such manner as shall be fit for raising Timber for the Navy V. If any Forester Keeper or Under-Keeper or other Officer or person or any by their direction shall Top Lop or Browse any Oak or Beech-tree in the said Forest such Officer for every such Offence shall forfeit 10 l. and be incapable of any such Office Nor shall any Collier Keeper or Under-Keeper make or suffer any Coal-Fires for making Charcoal within the said Forest as being contrary to Law except in the Wast Ground of the said Forest particularly appointed and not within 1000 Paces of any Inclosure to be made by this Act Nor shall such Coal-Fires be fenced with Bushes but with Heath or Furze only but every Collier making such Coal-Fires and every Officer permitting them shall forfeit for every Offence 100 l. And the said Under-Keeper or Foresters shall also forfeit 20 l. for every neglect in not making the Drifts of the said Forest as directed by the Statute 32 H. 8. VI. All persons who shall break down any of the said Inclosures for raising Nurseries of Wood and Timber which Inclosures are to be kept up 20 years at least from their making or shall burn Heath or Fern or destroy any of the Covert or steal any
l. CCXI. Every Pedlar Hawker or other Travelling person so Travelling as aforesaid shall before the 24th of June 1697. deliver to the Commissioners for Transportation or to the persons deputed by them a Note in Writing under his or her Hand or under the Hand of some person by him or her Authorized in what manner he or she will Travel and Trade whether on foot or with one or more Horse Ass c. for which the Party shall pay to the said Commissioners or Deputies one moiety of the Duty by this Act payable for the same and give Security by Bond with one or more Sureties to be taken in his Majesties Name for the payment of the other Moiety at the end of Six Kalendar Months unless the Party shall choose to pay it down in which case 2 s. in the Pound shall be allowed for Prompt Payment and thereupon a Licence shall be Granted to him or her so to Travel or Trade by two or more of the said Commissioners for Transportation CCXII. If any such Hawker c. after the 24th of June 1697. be found Trading as aforesaid without or contrary to such Licence such person shall for every such Offence Forfeit 12 l. one moiety to the Informer the other to the Poor of the Parish where such Offender shall be discovered And every person so Trading who upon demand shall refuse to shew to any Justice of the Peace Mayor Constable or other Officer of the Peace his or her Licence for so Trading shall Forfeit 5 l. to the Church-wardens for the Poor of the Parish where such demand shall be made and for Non-payment shall suffer as a Common Vagrant and be committed to the House of Correction CCXIII. The said Commissioners or any two of them upon the Terms and Receipt and Security given as aforesaid shall grant a Licence to every Hawker c. for him or her self alone or with one or more Horses Asses c. as the case shall require for which Licence they shall take 1 s. unless such Hawker c. travels with Horse Ass c. and then 2 s. and no more The said Commissioners shall keep a distinct Account of the Duties arising by this Act and pay the same into the Exchequer Weekly on the Wednesday unless a Holiday under the penalties which the Officers of the Exchequer herein after mentioned shall be liable unto Which Money so paid in shall be applied to the paying the Interest of the 330769 l. 10 s. 7 d. in such manner as by the Act 6 7 W. 3. cap. 7. is appointed CCXIV. Whoever shall Forge or Counterfeit any Licence or Travel with such shall Forfeit 50 l. one moiety to the King the other to the Prosecutor to be Recovered by Action of Debt c. in any of the Kings Courts of Record at Westminster in which no Essoin c. to be allowed and to be subject besides to the Pains and Penalty of Forgery CCXV Persons sued or troubled for putting this Act in Execution may plead the General Issue and give the Special Matter in Evidence and if the Plaintiff shall be Nonsuited or Judgment be given against him the Defendant shall have Treble Costs CCXVI Constables or other Officers refusing or neglecting upon due Notice to Aid or Assist in the Execution of this Act every such Officer being thereof Convicted before any Justice of Peace shall Forfeit 40 s. to be levied by Distress and Sale of Goods One moiety to the poor of the Parish the other to the Informer CCXVII Any person may seize and detain any Hawker c. till such time as he or she shall produce a Licence if they have any if not till they give Notice to the Constable or some other Parish Officer who shall carry such Offender before a Justice of Peace who upon Confession or due Proof of Trading and no Licence produced shall by Warrant under his Hand and Seal cause the said Sum of 12 l. to be levied out of the Offenders Goods and Wares with reasonable Charges for taking the Distress CCXVIII This Act shall not extend to prohibit any person from selling Acts of Parliament Forms of Prayer Proclamations Gazettes Licensed Almanacks or other Licensed Papers or Fish Fruit or Victuals or hinder the Makers of any Goods or Wares in England Wales or Town of Berwick their Children Servants or Agents from carrying abroad and selling the same in any publick Fair or Market or elsewhere nor any Tinker Cooper Glasier Plummer Harness-menders or other person Trading in mending household Goods from going about and Carrying with them proper Materials for mending the same CCXIX. There shall be kept in the Office of the Auditor of the Receipts in the Exchequer one Book in which all Moneys paid in by virtue of this Act shall be entred apart CCXX If any Officer of the Exchequer shall divert or misapply any Moneys given by this Act he shall Forfeit his Office be incapable of any place of Trust and pay the treble value of any Sum so misapplied to the Party grieved his Executors c. who will sue for the same by Action of Debt c. wherein no Essoin c. And all Orders and Warrants for payment of Money contrary to the intent and meaning of this Act shall be Void CCXXI Nothing herein contained shall extend to hinder any Persons from selling any sorts of Goods in any publick Market or Fair in England Wales or Town of Berwick but that they may do therein as they lawfully might have done before the making of this Act. CCXXII On or before the first of August 1697. the several Owners of the Ships mentioned in the foresaid Act 6 7 W. 3. cap 7. or such persons who have parts and shares in the same shall deliver in to the Commissioners for Transportation an Account of what Share Part or Interest in each Ship he or they under whom they Claim are possest of and if the same be not in the first Proprietor then the person claiming to give an Account how and by what means he came to the same and so from time to time upon the Death or Assignment of any person Intituled unto any part or Interest of the Money intended to be raised by this or the foresaid Act an Account shall be given thereof to the said Commissioners CCXXIII. A Register of every persons Claim and Interest shall be made and kept in a Book to be provided by the said Commissioners and for Registring each persons Title a Fee of 1 s. shall be paid to the Clerk and no more and no person shall receive any Moneys to be raised by this or the foresaid Act till he hath delivered in to the said Commissioners an Account of his Share and Interest which Register shall at all times be viewed without Fee CCXXIV. In case it happen that the Duties Granted upon Coffee Tea Chocolate and Spice by the foresaid Act with the Duties to be raised by this Act shall amount to more
said Commissioners shall keep a distinct account of the Duties granted by this Act and pay the Money arising thereby into the Exchequer on Wednesday in every Week unless a Holiday and then the day after and upon neglect or refusal shall incur the penalties c. as other the Officers of the Exchequer herein mentioned shall be liable unto which Money so pay'd in shall be applied to pay Interest for the said Transport Debt after 5 per Cent. per Ann. CCCXC Persons Forging or Counterfeiting such Licences or Travelling with Forged or Counterfeited Licences shall forfeit 50 l. one Moiety to the King the other to the Prosecutor to be recovered in any the Courts of Record at Westminster and be subject to the penalties for Forgery CCCXCI Persons sued for putting this Act in Execution may plead the general Issue and give the special matter in Evidence And if the Plaintiffs be Nonsuited or suffer Judgment on Demurrer or a Verdict pass for the Defendants the Defendant shall have treble Costs CCCXCII If any Constable or other Officer refuse or neglect to be assisting in the Execution of this Act being thereunto required such Officer being thereof convicted upon Oath before a Justice of Peace shall forfeit for every such offence 40 s. to be levied by Distress and Sale of Goods one Moiety to the Poor of the Parish the other to the Prosecutor rendring the overplus CCCXCIII Any persons may seise and detain such Hawkers c. till they produce a Licence or if Trading without a Licence till such time as notice be given to the Constable or some other Parish officer who are to carry such persons before a Justice of Peace who upon confession of the party or due proof upon Oath that the person had so Traded and no Licence produced shall by Warrant under his Hand and Seal levy the said Sum of 12 l. by Distress and Sale of the Offenders Goods or Wares rendring the overplus after deduction of the charge for distraining and out of the said Sale to pay the said penalties and forfeitures CCCXCIV This Act shall not prohibit persons from selling Acts of Parliament Forms of Prayer Proclamations Gazetts licensed Almanacks or other printed Papers licensed by Authority or any Fish Fruits or Victuals nor hinder the makers of any Goods or Wares within this Kingdom or their Children Apprentices Agents or Servants from selling the Goods and Wares of their own making in any Mart Fairs Markets or elsewhere nor any Tinkers Coopers Glasiers Plummers Harness-menders or other persons trading in mending Kettles Tubs Houshold Goods or Harness from going about and carrying with them proper materials for mending the same CCCXCV There shall be kept in the Office of the Auditor of the Exchequer a Register of all Moneys paid in by virtue of this Act distinct from all other Moneys CCCXCVI If any Officer in the Exchequer shall divert any of the Moneys paid in by virtue of this Act he shall forfeit his Office be incapable of any place of Trust and shall pay treble the value of the sums so diverted to the persons grieved who will sue for the same in any the Courts of Record at Westminster And all orders for disposing the Moneys to be raised by this Act contrary to the meaning thereof shall be void CCCXCVII This Act shall not hinder any persons from selling any sorts of Goods or Merchandizes in any publick Mart Market or Fair within this Kingdom CCCXCVIII If the several Duties and Impositions granted to his Majesty by several Acts of Parliament towards payment of Interest of the said Transport Debt together with the Duties to be raised by this Act shall amount to more than sufficient for payment of interest at 5 per Cent. for the said Transport Debt according to the several Debentures made and to be made out then such surplus shall remain in the Exchequer and not be disposed of but by Act of Parliament CCCXCIX The Commissioners of his Majesty's Treasury or the Lord High Treasurer out of the Moneys raised by this or the said recited Acts may pay to the said Commissioners to be appointed pursuant to this Act their Clerks and others such sums as they may reasonably deserve for their service or may have expended in or about this or the said recited Acts. CCCC This Act shall not give power for the Licensing any Hawker Pedlar or Petty-chapman to sell or expose to sale any Wares or Merchandizes in any City Borough Town Corporate or Market Town within this Realm otherwise than might have been done before the making of this Act. CCCCI Stat. 9 10 W. 3. cap. 34. After 15 May 1698. The Money coming into the Exchequer for the Duties of Excise granted by an Act of 5 and 6 W.M. Intituled An Act for Granting to their Majesties certain Rates and Duties upon Salt and upon Beer Ale and other Liquors for securing certain Recompences and Advantages in the said Act mentioned to such Persons as shall voluntarily advance the sum of Ten hundred thousand pounds towards carrying on the War against France shall in the first place be applied to pay such of the Annuities lately payable out of the Tunnage Duties and the tickets for the same which became due at Lady day 1696 or within 20 days after and are yet unsatisfied And in the second place to pay such of the said Annuities as became due at Michaelmas 1697 or within 20 days after and are yet unsatisfied And in the third place to pay such of the said Annuities as became due 25 Mar. 1698 or within 20 days after and not otherwise And the said Arrears being first discharged or Money reserved for payment thereof the growing produce shall be applied to pay the said half yearly and yearly Annuities in course And no Officer shall pay any half yearly or yearly payments of the said Annuities till the preceding half year or year be fully paid or the Money reserved for which publick notice in Writing shall be hung up in the said Office under penalty of forfeiting his Office and for every such offence 100 l. to the persons who shall sue for the same in any the Courts of Record at Westminster where the Plaintiff upon Recovery shall have treble Costs CCCCII. The Tickets commonly called Benefit Tickets which became due at Lady day 1698 or within 20 days after shall be paid as they are numbred beginning at number one and ending with number 2500. And the Tickets for 20 s. a piece commonly called blank Tickets being due at Michaelmas 1698 or within 20 days after shall also be paid as they are numbred beginning with number One and ending with the number 97500. And in the year next following the Benefit Tickets shall be paid in an Arithmetical Progression descending beginning with number 2500 and ending with number One and the Blank Tickets from number 97500 inclusive to number one inclusive and so onwards in every subsequent year alternately CCCCIII It shall be no undue preference to
pay subsequent Tickets when brought and demanded before such Tickets as were not brought in course provided there be Money reserved to satisfie such preceding Tickets CCCCIV The additional Duties of Excise granted by the said Act and which ought to come weekly into the Exchequer the Officers Salaries and incident Charges not exceeding 2500 l. per Ann. only excepted are hereby appropriated during the whole term of 16 years thereby granted to the payment of the said Annuities and Tickets for the same CCCCV. After 15 May 1698. No Officer appointed to pay the Annuities for one two or three Lives purchased for the respective Considerations mentioned in the Act of 5 6 W. and M. Intituled An Act for Granting to their Majesties several Rates and Duties upon Tunnage of Ships and Vessels and upon Beer Ale and other Liquors for securing certain Recompences and Advantages in the said Act mentioned to such persons as shall voluntarily advance the Sum of 1500000 l. towards carrying on the War against France payable quarterly out of two seventh parts of the several Duties thereby granted and the Reversions of the said Annuities or some of them or further interest therein purchased by several subsequent Acts shall pay off any quarterly payment of the said Annuities till the preceedent quarter be paid off or the Money ready in the Office for payment thereof whereof publick notice in Writing shall be affixed in the said Office under Penalty of forfeiting his place and 100 l. for every such offence to the Persons who shall Sue for the same to be recovered with costs of Suit as aforesaid CCCCVI Stat. 9 10 W. 3. cap. 35. Enacted That all the Clauses in the Acts of the sixth seventh and eighth years of his Majesties Reign in relation to the Duties on Marriages Births Burials Batchelors and Widowers not otherwise hereby altered or explained shall be duly observed under the Penalties in the said Acts. CCCCVII The Commissioners for the Aid to his Majesty of 1484015 l. 1 s. 11 d. 3 f. shall be Commissioners for the said Acts for Marriages Births and Burials till 24 Jun. 1699. who with the Justices of Peace or a Quorum of them appointed by the former Acts shall have full power to Act in all things relating to the said Duties and after the 24 Jan. 1699. the Justices as aforesaid shall be the Commissioners CCCCVIII All persons required by the former Acts to keep a Register shall with the name of every person Married Buried Christened or Born express the Degree and Quality according to which the Duty ought to be paid and upon Burials the names of the Heirs Executors Administrators Fathers Mothers Guardians Churchwardens Overseers or others who are to pay for the same and where they dwell And in case of Births the names of the Fathers Mothers Guardians or Curators of such Children and where they live And in case of Marriages the Husbands abode under penalty of 20 l. one moiety to the King the other to the Informer And every person who ought to pay the said Duties shall give the Minister who performs the Office of such Marriage Burial or Christening a true relation of the Degree and Quality according to which the Duty ought to be paid and where the person lives who ought to pay the same to be inserted in the Register under penalty of 20 l. CCCCIX. The words Ecclesiastical Persons in this Act and Persons in Holy Orders in the former Acts are to comprehend Bishops where Marriages Christenings or Burials are performed by them CCCCX Upon any Persons removal or going away without payment of the Duties any two of the Commissioners certifying such default under their Hands and Seals the like number of Commissioners in any other place where the person shall be sound shall cause the said Duties to be paid and upon default may Levy the same by Distress and Sale of Goods CCCCXI All Penalties in this and the former Acts touching the said Duties except the Penalty of 100 l. for not duly keeping a Register shall be determined by two or more Justices or Commissioners near the place upon Oath and levied by distress and sole of Goods and for want of Distress the Offender to be Committed to Prison But the Commissioners may mitigate such Penalty so that it be not less than double the Duty CCCCXII The Commissioners in the respective Divisions shall meet together on or before the first of August 1698. and so once or oftner every three Months for the Execution of this and the former Acts and they or any two of them are to warn the Assessors Collectors Surveyors Inspectors and Receivers General and if need be any Parsons Vicars Curates Parish-Clerks and others concerned in the said Duties to bring in their Assessments Accounts and Registers and upon default may Fine the Offenders not exceeding 5 l. CCCCXIII And shall Examine the said Assessments Accounts and Registers and cause the persons omitted or not fully charged to be duly taxed and thereupon to sign the Assessments and cause Duplicates of the gross Sums to be Transmitted into the Exchequer CCCCXIV The Collectors shall render their Accounts upon Oath and in default thereof may be fined by the Commissioners not exceeding 20 l. CCCCXV. Every Collector duly discharging himself shall besides the 3 d. in the pound in the former Acts be allowed 2 d. in the pound for what he shall pay to the Receiver General and the Commissioners Clerks shall have an Additional allowance of 1 d. in the pound CCCCXVI After 1 Aug. 1698. every person who ought to pay any of the said Duties shall pay or tender the same to the proper Collector within twenty days after it shall become due on pain of paying double the said Duties CCCCXVII The Clause in the former Act An. 6. W. 3. for the Collectors delivering a Copy of the Assessment to the Minister of the place under penalty of 5 l. and for the Ministers reading the same in the Church under the like penalty is hereby Repealed CCCCXVIII The ten days allowed by the said former Act for Appealing shall be reckoned from the time of the Collectors demand CCCCXIX Stat. 9 10 W. 3. cap. 38. Enacted That every person of what Age Sex or Condition soever in England and Wales shall pay to his Majesty one shilling on 24 Aug. 1698. one shilling 24 Novemb. 1698. one shilling 24 Febr. 1698. and one shilling 24 May 1699. Except such as receive Alms of the Parish and their Children under the age of 16 years and all poor House keepers not contributing to Church or Poor and their Children under 16 years and except all Children under 16 years of Day Labourers and Servants in Husbandry and of such who have 4 Children or more and are not worth in Lands Goods and Chattels 50 l. CCCCXX Every Gentleman or so Reputed having an Estate real or personal or in both of 300 l. or more and every person above that quality and not a Peer
imported although filled with Liquor shall pay one Moiety of the Duties charged thereon by the former Acts. CCCCLXXXIII Upon the Importation of any Whale Fins Scotch Linen or Tickings as aforesaid Entry thereof shall be made in the Custom-house where imported And in case of Landing any such Goods before due Entry made and the Duties secured or without a Warrant from the Commissioners or proper Officers of the Customs for Landing the same such Goods shall be forfeited or the value thereof and be recovered of the importer or proprietor one Moiety to the King the other to the Seiser or Prosecutor CCCCLXXXIV The said Duties payable for Whale Fins and Scotch Linen as aforesaid shall be managed by the Commissioners of the Customs And the Receivers General of the Customs shall bring the Produce thereof necessary charges only excepted into the Receipt of the Exchequer And the Officers of the Exchequer shall apply the said Duties as also the half Duties on Glass Waies for the payment of such Principal and Interest Moneys whereunto the whole Duties on Glass and Earthen Wares and Tobacco Pipes ought to have been applied in the same Order and under the like Penalties and Forfeitures as in the said former Acts are prescribed Trade I. Stat. 8 9 W. 3. cap. 36. Enacted That whosoever shall Import any Foreign Alamodes or Lustrings into England Wales or Town of Berwick without paying the Customs and Rates due for the same at such Importation or shall Import any Alamodes or Lustrings prohibited by Law or undertake or agree to deliver or shall deliver any such Goods or Merchandize or shall pay any Money Praemium or Reward for Insuring or Conveying any such Goods or knowingly receive or take the same into his or her House Custody or Possession such Person may be prosecuted for the same in any Action Suit or Information and thereupon a Capias specifying the Sum of the Penalties shall Issue and the Party obliged to give sufficient Bail to the Officer to appear in Court and shall at the time of appearance give sufficient Bail to pay the penalties for such Offences in case of Conviction or yield his Body to Prison II. It shall be lawful for any Person to Sue for and Recover the penalty of 500 l. imposed by the Stat. 4 5 W. M. upon Insuring to Import Prohibited Goods or Goods without paying Custom cap. 15 Customs 166. by Action of Debt c. in any of the Kings Courts of Record at Westminster wherein no Essoign c. shall be allowed III. All Black Alamodes and Lustrings wheresoever made which shall be found in the Possession of any Person not Markt and Seal'd by the Custom House or the Royal Lustring Company shall be forfeited and may be seized as forfeited whether the same hath been bought and sold or not and the Person in whose Custody they are found shall incur the penalties relating to Alamodes and Lustrings in an Act made 6 7 W. 3. cap. 18. Trade 84. IV. No Alamodes and Lustrings that after the 10 of April 1697 shall be seized and forfeited by virtue of any Law now in force shall be used in England but shall be exported again and to that end shall immediately on their Seizure be carried to the Custom-house Ware house in London and there sold by Inch of Candle on Condition to be exported and Security given for Exportation which Security may be discharged by Certificate from the Port where such Goods shall be Landed or Oath made that they were lost at Sea V. On Exportation of Foreign Lustrings or Alamodes the Exporter shall not be Intituled to Receive Draw back or be repaid the Customs or Impositions paid or secured on Importation of the same or any part thereof VI. Every Person that shall Imbezel Pawn Sell or Detain any of the Silk delivered to them as Agents Journeymen Warpers or Winders or after it is wrought up and every Receiver Buyer and Pawn-taker of any the said Goods shall be subject to all the Penalties and Punishments mentioned and provided in an Act made 13 14 Car. 2. chap. 15. and in another Act made 20 Car. 2. chap. 6. both for regulating the Trade of Silk throwing VII All such pieces of Alamodes and Lustrings as some Weavers have now by them unmarkt and shall appear upon Oath made in Writing before any Justice of Peace by one or more credible Witnesses to be Manufactured within this Realm before the 10 of April 1697 shall be brought to the Royal Lustring Companies Ware-house and the Evidence being there produced shall be Markt and Sealed gratis by the said Company before the 1 of May 1697 and then be lawful to be Sold as if manufactured by the said Company VIII The said Weavers shall give an Account weekly to the said Company to whom they have Sold such Goods so marked and sealed under the penalty of double the value of such Goods for every Omission to be recovered as other Penalties inflicted by this Act and the said Company shall keep a Register of the said Sales IX Stat. 9 10 W. 3. cap. 9. All Persons who after 25 March 1698 shall Import or cause to be Imported into England or Wales or Town of Berwick upon Tweed or who shall after 24 December 1698 Sell Barter or offer to Sale or knowingly keep in their Custody for Sale or for the use of any Importer or Dealer in the Commodities aftermentioned any Foreign Bone-lace Loom-lace Needle-work Point or Cutwork shall forfeit 20 s. per Yard for all the said Foreign Bone-lace c. so Imported Sold Bartered offered to Sale or kept as aforesaid together with all the said Goods X. The Importation Selling Bartering offering to Sale or Barter or knowingly keeping for that purpose any Foreign Bone-lace c. is hereby declared a Common Nuisance And the said prohibited Goods or any part thereof may be seized and the Offenders prosecuted by any person whatsoever Any Persons with a Constable or Tythingman with a Warrant from a Justice of Peace in the day time may enter into any House Shop Cellar Ware-house or Room or other place whatsoever to Search for and Seize any of the prohibited Goods before mentioned and in case of Resistance to break open Doors Chests Trunks and other Package whatsoever to Seize the Goods prohibited by this Act And every Justice of Peace is to grant such Warrant to any credible Persons making Oath that they have reason to suspect there are such prohibited Goods where they intend to Search XI All Foreign Bone-lace c. Seized by virtue of this or any other Act shall be carried to the next Custom house not thence to be delivered unless to be produced at a Trial or otherwise discharged by Law The Goods so seized and condemned shall be sold publickly by Inch of Candle whereof publick notice in Writing to be affixed at the Custom-house Door and other publick place where the Goods are lodged Ten days before the Sale
Proof upon Oath before the next Justice of Peace that the same was duly Entred and a Warrant for Conveyance obtain'd it shall likewise be Forfeited And the Persons so Carrying the same away shall Forfeit to His Majesly double the Value and also 10 s. per Bushel LXXVII No Retailer or Shopkeeper shall ship any Salt for any Port of this Kingdom before Oath or other Proof made before the Collectors that the Duty is Paid or Secured LXXVIII Masters of Ships Carrying Salt or Rock-Salt from one Port to another shall before they have a Warrant for Landing it Deliver to the Collectors Particulars thereof upon Oath and that no more hath been Laded since their coming out of Port and upon Landing any Part thereof at any other Port shall have a Certificate thereof or Forfeit double the Value so Landed and also 10 s. per Bushel LXXIX No Fees shall be taken for Debentures Tickets Warrants or Licenses touching the said Duties LXXX Provided that for Fish exported there be allowed over and above all former Allowances For every Cask of Pilchards er Scads from 1 July 1698 to 25 December 1699. 20 s. and after 24 December 1699. 28 s. For every Barrel of White Herring from â— July 1698. to 25 December 1699. 4 s. 2 d. And from 24 December 1699. 5. s. 10 d. For every Barrel of Red Herring from 1 July 1698. to 25 December 1699. 3 s. 4 d. and after 24 December 1699. 4 s. 8 d. For every Barrel of Salmon from 1 July 1698. to 25 December 1699. 8 s. 4 d. and after 24 December 1699. 11 s. 8 d. For every Hundred of Codfish Ling or Hake after 1 July 1692 and before 25 December 1699. 25 s. and after 24 December 1699. 35 s. For every Last of Dried Red Sprats after 1 July 1698. 6 s. 8 d. LXXXI Which Allowances shall be Paid by the Salt Collector in the Port from whence such Fish is Exported within Thirty Days after Demand upon a Debenture duly verified and Oath made that the Fish was English taken and really Exported beyond Sea And if the Collector have not sufficient Money to pay the same upon his Certificate the Commissioners of Excise shall be Chargeable therewith out of the first Money in their Hands on the said Salt Duties And any Officer neglecting or refusing to pay the said Money or give such Certificate shall forfeit double the Sum payable LXXXII Upon Exporting any Salt Foreign or English or Rock-Salt the Officer where such Salt was Made or Imported and the Duty Paid or Secured shall deliver Certificates thereof gratis and the Officer at the Place of Exportation shall thereupon give a Debenture for Repayment of the Duty by the Officer where it was before Paid or Secured LXXXIII All Salt Imported or Brought into England Wales or Berwick not there Made shall pay as Foreign Salt and Scotch Salt brought into England by Land shall be entred at Carlisle or Berwick under forseiture of double the value and also 10 s. per Bushel LXXXIV Persons Sued for any thing done in pursuance of this Act may Plead the General Issue and give the Act in Evidence and if the Plaintiff he Cast Nonsuit or forbear Prosecuting the Desendant shall have double Costs LXXXV No Writ of Certiorari shall supersede the Orders of the Commissioners of Excise or Justices of Peace touching the Duties on Salt LXXXVI No Salt shall be Delivered from any Salt-works without Notice given to the Officer on Pain of Forfeiture and also 10 s. per Bushel One half to the Prosecutor the other to the King LXXXVII If any Exported Salt after the Duty has been repaid be Landed in this Kingdom before the Duty be again paid the Offender shall forfeit double the value thereof and 10 s. per Bushel LXXXVIII Subjects of this Realm shipping Salt for any part of England in a Ship perishing at Sea or taken by Enemies upon proof thereof before the Justices in Session of the loss of such Salt shall be allowed to buy the like quantity without Duty LXXXIX Salt-Rock or Rock-Salt after Entry and a Warrant may be removed to convenient Ware-houses and the Duty need not be paid or secured till sold and delivered XC No Person shall be obliged by any Contract made before 25 Dec. 1698. to deliver any Salt or Rock Salt unless the Buyer pay the Duty XCI Salt-Rock or Rock-Salt shall be Entred by Weight only at 120 pound weight to the Bushel XCII Refiners of Rock-Salt which had paid the Duty shall have an Abatement over and above any former Allowances of 2 s. 4 d. per Bushel XCIII The charge of managing this Duty on Salt may be paid out of the said Duties XCIV Salt made from Rock-Salt allowing the Drawback and all Refined Salt Imported or Made in England is to be charged with the said Duties XCV All Salt except Rock Salt shall be ascertained as to the Duty at 56 pounds weight to the Bushel XCVI All Salt brought from Scotland and all Imported and Home-made Salt brought in or landed before due Entry shall be forfeited and 10 s. per Bushel XCVII The Collectors of the said Salt Duties shall provide Scales at every Salt-work and Persons living near such Salt-works or Salt-pits shall be Sworn Weighers and paid for the same by the Collectors XCVIII The Officers shall deliver as many Warrants or Permits to Salt Carriers as they desire gratis for what they shall Load at one time XCIX All Persons shall sell Salt except foreign Salt after 56 pound weight to the Bushel under Penalty of 5 l. to the Informer C. The Lord Mayor and Court of Aldermen in London shall by to July 1698. ascertain the price of Salt within the City of London and Bills of Mortality And the Justices of Peace in their General Sessions for other Places by 1 Aug. 1698. And so from time to time if necessary And Persons selling for higher prices or refusing to sell at the prices settled shall forfeit 5 l. to be Levied by Distress and Sale of Goods by Warrant from the Lord Mayor aforesaid or a Justice of Peace of the Place who in default of a Distress may Imprison the Offender till payment thereof one Moiety to the King the other to the Prosecutor CI. The Commissioners of Excise and Commissioners for the Stamp Office respectively shall keep apart and pay Weekly into the Exchequer the Duties on Salt by this Act granted and the Additional Duties on Stampt Velum Parchment and Paper granted to his Majesty his Heirs and Successors by an Act of this present Session and a distinct Register thereof shall be kept in the Exchequer CII The Commissioners for managing the said Duties not paying the same duly into the Exchequer or misapplying any part thereof shall forfeit their Places and be uncapable of any Place of Trust and pay double the value so misapplied CIII In the Excise Office and Stamp Office there shall for ever be Commissioners and Comptrollers for the Execution
in the Act 2 W. M. for an Aid of 2 s. in the pound for the speedy Payment of Money into the Exchequer and misapplication thereof are hereby Revived CXLIX After 10 July 1698. The Commissioners of the Treasury if it consist with his Majesties Service may direct Bank Bills to be Received in all Payments to the King until the end of next Session of Parliament but not when they are at any Discount Treason I. Stat 8 W. 3. cap. 4. For the Treasons and other Causes in the Preamble recited at large Enacted That Sir John Fenwick Baronet be Convicted and Attainted of High Treason and shall suffer the Pains of Death and incur all Forseitures as a Person Atainted of High Treason II. Stat. 8 W. 3. cap. 5. Enacted That if Sir George Barclay Knight Johnson alias Harrison Durant alias Durance Michael Hare Major George Holmes Philip Handford alias Brown Richard Richardson John Maxwell Bryerly Plowden Hungate shall not before 25 March 1697. Render themselves to the Lord Chief Justice of the Kings Bench or one of the Secretaries of State in order to their Trials for the Tieason wherewith they are charged then such of the said Persons as shall not so render themselves shall Stand and be Convicted and Attainted of High Treason and shall suffer the Pains of Death and all Forfeitures and Penalties as Traytors Convicted of High Treason III. And Counter John Bernardi Robert Cassells Robert Meldrum James Chambers and Robert Blackbourn and such other Persons who shall hereafter render themselves or shall be apprehended against whom there shall be Evidence upon Oath of being concerned in the said Conspiracy of Assassinating his Sacred Majesty shall be detained in Custody without Bail till the first day of January 1697 unless they shall be sooner Bailed by order of Councel signed by six Privy Councellors IV. Stat. 9 W. 3. cap. 1. Every of His Majesties Subjects who since 11 Decemb. 1688. have voluntarily gone into France or any of the French Kings Dominions in Europe without Licence from his Majesty or the late deceased Queen Mary or who have during the late War with France born Arms in the Service of the French King by Sea or Land or who have since 13 Feb. 1688. been in Arms under the Command or in the Service of the late King James in Europe and shall after 14 Jan. 1697. return into this Kingdom or any other his Majesties Dominions without Licence under the Privy Seal shall be Guilty of High Tieason and suffer and forseit accordingly V. Every of his Majesties Subjects who after 14 Jan. 1697. shall without Licence from his Majesty within this Realm or without in order to give any Aid or Assistance to the late King James hold or keep any Intelligence or Correspondence by Letters Messages or otherwise with the late King James or with any Person Imployed by Him knowing such Person to be so Imployed or shall without Licence from his Majesty by Bill of Exchange or otherwise remit or pay any Sums of Money for the Use or Service of the late King James knowing such Money to be for such Use or Service shall be Guilty of High Treason and suffer and forfeit accordingly VI. Any of the Offences against this Act committed out of this Realm may be laid and tried in any County of this Realm VII The Clause in an Act of 3 4 W. M. Intituled An Act against Corresponding with their Majesties Enemies whereby it was Enacted That if any of his Majesties Subjects should after 10 March 1691. without Licence from their Majesties voluntarily go or Imbark in any Vessel with intent to go into France or any Dominions of the French King should be Guilty of High Treason is declared to be intended only during the War with France and is now of no force VIII Provided That if any Person who since 11 Dec. 1688. went into France or any of the French Kings Dominions without Licence or who had been in Arms under the late King James or the French King or in either of their Services since 13 Feb. 1688. and hath returned into this Realm without Licence such Person shall depart this Realm by the first of Febr. 1697. unless before that time such Person obtain his Majesties Licence for staying here And every such Person not departing this Realm by 1 Febr. 1697. or after such departure returning into this Realm without his Majesties Licence shall be Guilty of High Treason and suffer and forfeit accordingly IX No person shall pay for any such Licence above 10 s. in each Office through which such Licence shall pass and Persons receiving more shall forfeit 20 l. to the Party grieved X. All Persons who after 6 Jan. 1697. shall procure or accept any Charter of Pardon or Grant of any Title of Honour or other matter or thing in England or Ireland from the late King James or shall claim any Benefit thereby or by any Writing purporting any such Pardon or Grant shall be Guilty of High-Treason and suffer and forfeit accordingly And whosoever hath since 11 Decemb. 1688. accepted such Pardon or Grant shall by the 13 of Febr. 1697. deliver such Pardon or Grant to his Majesty in Council or to one of the Secretaries of State before two Witnesses or be Guilty of High Treason and suffer and forfeit accordingly XI Any Person who having accepted or concealed any such Pardon or Grant shall discover and deliver up the same by the said 13 Febr. shall not be punished for procuring accepting or concealing thereof but be wholly Indempnified for the same XII All Persons Indicted for any thing made Treason by this Act shall have the benefit of the Act 7 W. 3. Intituled An Act for Regulating of Tryals in cases of Treason and Misprision of Treason XIII All Grants of any Estate forseited by Virtue of this Act shall be utterly void Wool I. Stat. 9 10. W. 3. cap 40. The Act made 7 W. 3. Intituled An Act for the more effectual Preventing the Exportation of Wool and for Incouraging the Importation of Wool from Ireland and every thing therein contained except what is hereby otherwise altered shall continue and be in full force II. After 24 Jun. 1698. No Fullers Earth or Scouring Clay shall be Exported out of this Kingdom into Ireland Scotland or any other Foreign parts but the Exporter shall forfeit 1 s. for every pound weight III. All Owners of Wool Shorn Housed or Lodged within 10 Miles of the Sea side in Kent and Sussex shall give an Exact Account in Writing within 3 days after Sheering of the number of Fleeces and where lodged or housed to the next adjoyning Port or Officer of the Customs and the like notice before Removing thereof and the Name and Abode of the Persons to whom disposed and where intended to be carried and shall take a Certificate of such Entry on forfeiture of the Wool not Entred or otherwise Disposed of and a penalty of 3 s. per pound for such