Anthony Oldefield Esquires John Empson Esquire Joseph VVhiting Charles Rushworth Samuel Jackson Anthony Hall Doctor Sturton Richard Balder Robert Bisle VVilliam Dickinson Gentlemen Adlard VVelby David Bonnel Esquires John Jelson Daniel Rhodes George Caverne Henry Morley Israel Jackson Gentlemen Thomas Marham Doctor Richer Robert Melish Esquires Richard Milner Gentleman the Mayor of the City of Lincoln for the time being and the four senior Aldermen viz. VVilliam Bishop Edward Blowe Richard Wetherel Robert Wrose the Mayor and the thrée senior Aldermen of Boston viz. John Ellis George Slee Samuel Beeston the Mayors of Stamford and Great Grimsby and the Alderman of Grantham for the time being Doctor Thomas Saunderson William Perkins and Richard Leemine Daniel Thorowgood Richard Butcher George Hill Gentlemen John Humphreys Esquire Charles Bawds Stephen Mason Esquire Samuel Burton John VVimberly Gent. London For the City of London sir John Lawrence Knight Lord Mayor and the Lord Mayor for the time being sir Thomas Adams sir Richard Brown sir Thomas Alleyn sir John Robinson sir VVilliam VVild Recorder Knights and Baronets sir Richard Chiverton sir John Frederick sir Anthony Bateman sir Thomas Soame sir Thomas Bludworth sir VVilliam Bolton sir VVilliam Peake sir VVilliam Turner sir Richard Ford sir Richard Reeves sir VVilliam Thompson sir Theophilus Biddulph sir John Shaw sir VVil. VVale Knights Francis Meynel Samuel Sterling Robert Hanson VVilliam Hooker Thomas Bonfoy Roger Hatton Nicholas Bonfoy John Bence Richard Shelbury Aldermen and the Aldermen and Recorder of the said City for the time being George Waterman Charles Doe Sheriffs and the Sheriffs for the time being John Jones John Jolliffe Thomas Thurgis Henry Dunstar VValter Lap Esquires James Abernoite Middlesex Sir Edward Turnor Knight Speaker of the Honourable House of Commons sir Thomas Ingram Chancellor of the Dutchy of Lancaster Hugh Lord Colrain in the Kingdom of Ireland sir Orlando Bridgman Chief Iustice of the Common-Pleas Henry Lord Cornebury son and heir apparent to Edward Earl of Clarendon Lord Chancellor of England Edward Russel George Mountague Christopher Hatton Thomas Coventry William Mountague Robert Spencer Henry Seymour Esquires sir Henry Bennet Principal Secretary of State John Ashburnham esquire one of his Majesties Bedchamber Edward Progers esquire one of his Majesties Bedchamber Thomas Elliot esquire one of his Majesties Bedchamber sir Harbottle Grimston Baronet Master of the Rolls sir Heneage Finch Knight and Baronet his Majesties Solicitor General sir Gilbert Gerard sir Thomas Fisher sir Henry Wood sir John Robinson sir Jeremy Whichcot sir William Waller sir Richard Franklin sir Joseph Ash sir Reginold Foster sir William Roberts sir Hugh Smithson Baronets sir John Brampston sir Robert Atkins sir John Bennet Knights of the Bath sir Henry Herbert sir Thomas Allen sir Nicholas Crisp sir Thomas Roe sir William Bateman sir Lancelot Lake sir Henry Wroth sir Francis Gerard sir John Glyn sir John Maynard sir John Heath Attorney of the Dutchy sir Winston Churchil sir John Cropley sir Charles Harbord sir Robert Hyde Lord Chief Iustice of the Kings Bench sir Edmond Boyer sir Thomas Clergies sir James Smith sir Ellis Leighton sir Thomas Player junior sir Thomas Byde sir William Rider sir Clifford Clifton sir Gilbert Gerard of Harrow sir Gilbert Gerard of St. James sir John Nicholas sir Philip Warwick sir Christopher Eyres sir John Birkenhead one of his Majesties Masters of Requests sir Cycil Wich sir Robert Car sir Edmond Barker sir John Colliton sir Edmond Peirce sir Justinian Lewin sir Thomas Escourt sir Edward Wingfield sir Henry Wernon sir Paul Painter Knights William Ashburnham Cofferer of his Majesties Houshold Sergeant Wynham Sergeant Waller Charles Cornwallis Humphrey Weld Francis Crawley Edmond Waller George Pit Sydney Bere John Carey Henry Barker John Brown Edwin Rich Francis Bloomer Joseph Ayloffe Thomas Swallow Richard Peacock Charles Cheyne John Trevor Francis Philips Robert Jacob William Hill John Heydon George Day George Marsh William Page Andrew Ellis John Page William Meggs Thomas Collet Ralph Hawtry Thomas Povey Giles Hungerford Thomas Lake Richard Dunton James Hawley Erasmus Moise Charles Pitfield Thomas Kendal Thomas Harrison Thomas Wharton John Jones Henry Osborn John Smith William Goldsborough Richard Abel John Wilford David Walter Richard Cheney Richard Procter James Norfolk John James John Fetherley William Northrey John Philips Auditor Edmund Warcup Roger Jennings Robert Child William Marshall Thomas Ardin Jasper Churchil Daniel Procter John Baldwin VVilliam Bowles VValter Bâ—othby Nicholas Ranton John Gouldsmith Henry Murrey John Hutchinson Edward Rich Robert Peyton Pawlet St. John VVilliam Dormer Edmond Draper Doctor VVilliam Quarterman esquires sir Thomas Bird one of the Masters of Chancery sir Frederick Hyde Sergeant at Law Robert Hanson Lestrange Colthrop esquires sir Charles Cotterel sir John Birkenhead Richard Atkins James Hambleton one of his Majesties Bed-chamber Edward Trussel Maximilian Bard VVilliam Harpham esquires Mr. Bathurst of Edmonton John Layney John Pawlet Mr. VVood of Littleton Mr. Roberts of Hayes John VValker Mr. Thomas Diconson of Hillingdon Robert Hampton Robert Shoredith Gentlemen Captain Harrington of Staynes Major John Bill Michael Holman Henry Row esquires Mr. Leigh of Greenford Mr. Claxton of Sudbury Mr. Brigginshal of Hayes Mr. Chute of VVilsdon Thomas Nevet Mr. Farrington of South-mims VVilliam Bockenham John Thorp John Norwood John Lloyd Gentlemen sir Richard Napier Robert Napier Tho. Henshaw Griffith Bodurda esquires sir Thomas Thorowgood Knight Frederick Cornwallis Francis Cornwallis and Henry Murrey Esquires Westminster For the City of VVestminster Thomas Lord Richardson Baron Cramond in the Kingdom of Scotland sir VVilliam Morrice Knight Principal Secretary of State sir Henry Bennet Principal Secretary of State sir Edward Nicholas Knight one of his Majesties most honourable Privy Councel George Mountague esquire sir Heneage Finch Knight and Baronet his Majesties Solicitor-General sir VVilliam Plaiters Baronet sir Robert Long sir Lancelot Lake sir Robert Pye sir Charles Harbord sir Cycil VVich Knights sir Edmond Pye Knight and Baronet sir John Cotton Baronet sir Henry Herbert sir John Nicholas Knight of the Bath sir Philip VVarwick sir Richard Everard sir Edward Filmer sir Allen Apsley sir Henry VVood sir Thomas Mâ—res sir John Talbot sir Charles Cotterel sir Thomas Higgons Knights sir Thomas Littleton Baronet sir VVilliam Poultney Knight sir John Bennet Knight of the Bath sir VVilliam VVheeler Baronet sir Thomas Clergies Knight sir John Birkenhead one of his Majesties Masters of Requests sir VVilliam Clerke sir Anthony Iâ—by sir Robert Howard Knights sir Edward Greavers Baronet sir John Baber Knight sir John Collaton Knight and Baronet sir Edward Broughton Baronet Iohn Ashburnham Bernard Greenvile Stephen Fox Cecil Tufton Iohn Trevor sir Richard Oately Reignald Graham Doctor VVilliam Quarterman esquires sir Theodore le Vaux sir Hugh Carteret Knights Colonel VVhitley George Pitts Richard Newman Mr. Dolbin Steward of VVestminster Robert Scawen Iohn Browne Thomas Povey Richard Atkins Richard Mason Thomas Coppin VVilliam Glascock Bulleyn Reymes Edmond-Bury Godfrey Francis Lucy Thomas Morrice Robert Filmer Matthew Lock Thomas Russel
Andrew Newport Esquires Sir Thomas Woolrich sir VVilliam Whitmore sir Francis Lawley sir Walter Acton sir Henry-Frederick Thinne sir Vincent Corbet sir Thomas Littleton sir Francis Edwards sir Henry Vernon sir Humphrey Briggs Baronet sir Thomas Whitmore Knight of the Bath sir Richard Prince sir John Weld sir Richard Ottly sir VVilliam Child and sir Henry Herbert Knights sir Job Charleton Sergeant at Law and Chief Iustice of Chester Timothy Littleton Sergeant at Law VVilliam Fowler Timothy Turner Philip Eyton Richard Scriven Francis Thornes Charles Mannering James Laten Robert Sandford Roger Kinneston Thomas Bawdwine Robert Leighton Philip Prince Francis Charlton Thomas Owen of Cow-dover Edward Kynerstone Samuel Wingfield Thomas Whitmore George Weld George Ludlow Thomas Rocke Charles Baldwin Robert Charleton Henry Barnard Thomas Powis Thomas Kettelesby Robert Corbet of the Hall of Hussey Thomas Holland John Coates VVilliam Oakeley Edmond Waring of Owldbury Somerset Fox Richard Fowler John Walcot Adam Ottly Thomas Walcot Robert Cresset John Cole Robert Owen Edward Powel Thomas Lloyd Thomas Lockier Thomas Smalman John Lacon Thomas Lockard John Kynestone VVilliam Owen of Porkington John Newton Thomas Kynnersley of Badger VVilliam Cotton Richard Mitton Francis Forester VVilliam Jones of Sandford Rowland Hill Vincent Edwards Henry Goodrick John Trevor Thomas Ireland Thomas Jones Richard Creswel Thomas Harris John Corbet of Adderley Edward Vernon Thomas Acton Thomas Jobber Samuel Baldwin Henry Sprat Thomas Crump Henry Griffiths Richard Ridley Jonathan Langley James Beck Henry Mitton of Shipton Esquires The Mayor of the Town of Salop for the time being the Bailiffs of Ludlow Bridge-North Wenlock and Bishops-Castle for the time being Daniel Wicherley Francis Smith Richard Walker John Whitacre Richard Clarke Andrew Viners Richard Tayler John Harding Arthur Hinckes John Baugh Edward Wollaston Alexander Middleton Samuel Lloyd Richard Davis of Ludlow Roger Gough Benjamin Buckley of Somerset-Hall Robert Betton Thomas Jones of Sheet Richard Charleton Richard Hosier Capt. Philip Jenings Andrew Hill Richard Prichard John Haynes George Hosier John Stanyer Edward Owen Roger Harris Robert Vernon Capt. Richard Philips Rowland Hill of Hackoston Gentlemen Richard Cooling Esquire Robert Gorton sir Clement Clarke and Richard Jenkins Gentleman Stafford For the County of Stafford Sir John Wirley Knight High Sheriff sir Edward Littleton sir Edward Baggot sir Thomas Wilbraham sir Walter Rotesley sir Charles Woolceley and sir Francis Lawley Baronets sir Bryan Broughton and sir John Bowyer Knights and Baronets sir Theophilus Bidolph sir Thomas Whitgrave and sir VValter Littleton Knights Randolph Egerton VValter Chetwind senior VVilliam Sneyd Henry Grey John Lane VValter Chetwynd junior George Digby Broom VVhorwood Rowland Okeover Edward Mainwaring John Skrymshire Gerard Skrymshire Colonel Harvy Bagot Edward Vernon Charles Cotton Richard Congreave Robert Milward VVilliam Chetwind Thomas Kynnersby John Piercehouse John Swynfen Robert Levison Francis Levison Rowland Cotton Henry Archbold Jonathan VVoodnorth Jonathan Cope Henry Vernon George Parker John Shelton Francis VVightwick John VVhitehal William Talbot George Vernon Charles Agard Richard Aderley Edward Arablaster William Orme John Noble Edward Birch Edward VVard William VVard William Trafford and Dan. VVatson Esquires Richard Bracegirdle William Trafford John Gough William Farmer John Coleclough of Burslem John Felton Henry Haworth and Thomas Bagnal Gentlemen The Mayor of Stafford for the time being The Mayor of Newcastle for the time being The Mayor of VValsal for the time being and the Bailiffs of Tamworth for the time being Lichfield For the City and County of the City of Lichfield Thomas Caterbanck Bailiff the Bailiffs for the time being Sir Theophilus Bydolph Knight Colonel John Lane Michael Bydolph Richard Dyot John Hill Sherington Talbot Esquires Doctor Hinton Doctor Hewet James Allen Thomas Minors John Burnes William Jesson Gentlemen and the Sheriff for the time being Somerset For the County of Somerset John Lord Digby Son and Heir apparent to George Earl of Bristol Francis Lord Hawley of the Kingdom of Ireland sir Charles Berkley Treasurer of his Majesties Houshold John Pawlet Francis Pawlet Amias Pawlet Esquires sir Thomas Mallet one of the Iustices of the Kings Bench sir William Portman sir John Sydenham sir Maurice Berkley sir Hugh Smith sir William Windham sir John VVorton sir George Trevilian sir Charles Pim and sir John Newton Baronets sir John Coventry and sir Edward Hungerford Knights of the Bath sir Henry Berkley sir Thomas Bridges sir Hugh VVindham sir George Norton sir John VVarr sir Thomas Gore sir George Horner and sir VVilliam Basset Knights John Merefield Sergeant at Law Alexander Popham George Scowel Edward Philips Edmund VVindham George Speake Francis Lutterel Henry Rogers Peregrine Palmer Samuel Gorges John Mallet Francis Wyndham William Hellyer of Coker William Prynne Thomas Heale Edward Berkley Henry Waldron William Bull John Buckland Thomas Warr Robert Hunt Thomas Piggot Francis Roll John Harrington John Tynt Warwick Brampfield William Lacy John Churchil Henry Henly Edward Court Henry Bull William Carrant Francis Baker Richard Jones George Sydenham Robert Hawley Michael Mallet Edward Philips junior Anthony Pawlet Henry Light John Harbin Roger Bourne Edward Bampfield Angel Grey Ralph Stowel Iohn Moore Hugh Norris William Speake William Hilliar of Sea Iohn St. Albons Iohn Fitz-Herbert Iohn How William Bawn Iohn Cridland Kingsmel Lucy Peter Roymon VVilliam Harbord Roger Newburrough Maidley Samborne Francis Vaughan Iohn Fody VVilliam Coward Iohn Hunt Iohn Goodwin Henry Dunster Edward Clarke Thomas Farwel and VVilliam Clarke and James Hayes Esquires And for the City of Wells and Town of Bridgewater the respective Mayors for the time being for the City of Bath the Mayor for the time being VVilliam Prynne Esquire Walter Gibbs Alderman Robert Pearce Doctor in Physick Walter Bayley Edward Parker John Sherstone and Simon Sloper Gentlemen Bristoll For the County and City of Bristoll The Mayor for the time being John Lawford Esquire sir Robert Atkins Knight of the Bath Recorder sir Henry Creswick and sir John Knight Knights John Lock Richard Balman Nathaniel Cale Walter Sandy John Willoughby Thomas Langton Aldermen Ralph Olliffe John Hicks John Wright John Bradway and Richard Streamer Gentlemen Southampton For the County of Southampton Charles Lord St. John of Basing son and heir apparent to John Marquess of Winchester the Lord Henry Pawlet sir George Carteret Vice-Chamberlain of the Kings Houshold sir Robert Howard sir Henry Worseley sir John Mills sir John Norton sir VVilliam Lewis sir Hugh Stewkley sir VVilliam Mewx sir Thomas Badd sir Nicholas Steward sir Andrew Henley sir John Trot sir Robert Dillington Baronets sir Humphrey Bennet sir John Leigh sir Robert Mason sir Thomas Higgons sir John Dingley sir Robert Worseley sir Mundiford Brampston sir Thomas Tompkins Knights Richard Norton Thomas Neale Richard Goddard Lawrence Hyde Henry Wallop John Button Thomas Knollis VVilliam Oglander Robert Dillington Tho. Jervice John Richards Charles West VVill. Legg Hen. Whitehead Geo. Pit Tho. Brook Leonard Bilson Francis Rolle John Hooke Tho. Cole Philip Leigh James May Rich. Compton Benj. Ruddiard Giles Hungerford Francis
Road safety and preservation of Ships that may resort thither as well in peril of Storms as otherwise to lade or unlade their Goods and to alter repair and amend the same or any part of it from time to time as oft as néed shall require And to the end that the making the said River Navigable and passable for Barges Boats Lighters and other Vessels and the erecting and making the said Haven Channels Sasses Locks Wears Turnpikes Penns for Water Wharfs Bridges Ways and Passages as aforesaid or other things may not be any way prejudicial to the Inheritance Possession or profit of any person or persons Bodies Politick or Corporate whatsoever that have any Lands Tenements Wears or Hereditaments adjoyning unto the said River or Streams Brooks new Chanels and Passages as aforesaid or any of them or through which the same shall be made or cut as aforesaid Satisfaction to parties endamaged in any of their lands Be it therefore Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That the said Vndertakers before they do meddle with the Lands Inheritance Possession or Profit of any person or persons Bodies Politick or Corporate shall first agrée with such persons Bodyes Politick or Corporate for the loss or damage that any of them shall or may any way receive by the making or altering the said Haven Channels Wharfs Sasses Locks Wears and Passages or procure some Order therein to be made by the Commissioners to be Assigned for that purpose as hereafter in this present Act is expressed And for the better effecting of the premisses and the due rating of the value of the things to be compounded for by the true intent of this Statute if the Parties shall not agrée Be it Enacted by the Authority aforesaid Commissioners for compounding with persons so damnifide That at the request and charges of the said Vndertakers One or more Commission or Commissions under the Great Seal of England shall be granted to Edward Earl of Clarendon Lord Chancellor of England Thomas Earl of Southampton Lord High Treasurer of England Philip Earl of Pembroke and Mountgomery William Lord Herbert of Cardiffe Henry Lord Viscount Cornbury George Lord Bishop of Winchester and the Bishop of Winchester for the time being John Lord Bishop of Sarum and the Bishop of Sarum for the time being William Lord Sands Robert Lord Brook Anthony Lord Ashly Chancellor of the Exchequer Sir Edward Nicholas Knight One of His Majesties most Honourable Privy-Council Sir Robert Hyde Knight Lord Chief Iustice of the Kings Bench Sir Wadham Windham Knight one of the Iustices of the Kings Bench Sir George Grubham How Baronet Sir Joseph Ash Baronet Sir John Nicholas Knight of the Bath sir John Low Knight sir Robert Mason Knight sir Thomas Mompesson Knight sir John Clobery Knight Stephen Fox Esquire Clerk of the Gréen-Cloth and one of the Citizens for the City of New-Sarum John Joyce Mayor of the City of New-Sarum and the Mayor of the City for the time being Richard Coleman Esquire Recorder of the City of New-Sarum and the Recorder of the same City for the time being Francis Roll Esquire High Sheriff of the County of Southampton Lawrence Hyde Esquire Humphrey VVeld Esquire Edward Hyde of Hatch Esquire Richard How Esquire John Holt the elder of the Close of the City of New-Sarum Esquire George Vennerd of the City of New-Sarum Esquire Edward Manning Esquire Richard Compton Esquire Thomas Knowles Esquire Philip Lee Esq Walter Bockland Esq VVilliam Swanton Esq Roger Gallop Esq Edward Hooper of Huncourt Esq Will. Tulse Esq John Hobby Esq Henry Tulse Esquire Henry VVhitehead Esq The Mayor of VVilton for the time being and the Mayor of Christ-Church for the time being Samuel Percival Esquire VVilliam Lisle Esquire and Philip Percival Gentleman The power of the said Commissioners Which said Commissioners or any seven or more of them not being Parties concerned shall have full power and Authority and are hereby impowred and Authorized by examination of witnesses upon Oath which Oath they or any seven or more of them have hereby power to administer or by any other lawful ways or means to examine here and determine all and all manner of Controversies Debates and Questions which shall happen and arise betwéen any persons whatsoever touching or concerning any matter or thing relating to the aforesaid Premisses or any part thereof And to appoint determine and decree what and how much satisfaction every such person or persons Body politick or Corporate shall have for or in respect of the loss to be by him her or them sustained notice being first given of their Méeting by Papers publickly affixed to the Church-doors or set up in the Market-places of the City of New-Sarum and the Towns of Christ-Church and Ringwood Ten days at the least before their Méeting declaring the time and place of their Meeting And also notice in writing being first left at the Dwelling-house of every Party concerned or at their usual place of abode or with some Tenant or Occupier of some House Land or Tenement of such party within fiftéen Miles of the said River Which said Determination Sentence and Decrée set down declared and pronounced by the said Commissioners or any seven or more of them and the Price and Recompence by them limited shall bind all Parties therein concerned in Possession Reversion or Remainder or otherwise and as well Infants Feme Coverts as others and their Heirs in Fée-Simple or in Tail and their Executors Administrators and Assigns and all claiming by from or under him her or them or any of them which Order Sentence and Decrée shall be set down in writing under the Hands and Seals of the said Commissioners or any seven or more of them within six wéeks after the first Resort to them for that cause according to this Act the same to be kept among the Records of the Sessions of the Peace for the City of New-Sarum by the Clerk of the Peace for the time being of the said City Transcripts whereof shall be delivered to the several Clerks of the Peace of the respective Counties of VVilts and Southampton to be by them kept upon Record amongst the Records of the Sessions of the said respective Counties All which shall be taken adjudged and déemed good and sufficient Evidence and proof in any Court of Record whatsoever And that upon payment of such sum or sums so ordered or agréed upon to the said persons concerned or tender thereof made at his or their Dwelling-house or the house of his or their Tenant of some Tenement house or Land of theirs within fiftéen miles of the said River and if they have no such Dwelling-house Land or Tenement or if upon such tender at their said Dwelling-house or the House Land or Tenement of such Tenant as aforesaid they refuse or are not ready to receive the same That upon payment of the said sum to the Mayor and Commonalty of the City of New-Sarum in the Council-Chamber of the said City
execution of their Office all and every person and persons so resisting affronting abusing beating or wounding the said Officer or Officers or their Deputies or such as shall Act in their aid or assistance shall by the next Iustice of Peace or other Magistrate be committed to Prison there to remain till the next Quarter-Sessions And the Iustices of the Peace of the said Quarter-Sessions shall and are hereby impowered to punish the Offender by Fine not excéeding One hundred pounds and the Offender is to remain in Prison till he be discharged by Order of the Exchequer both of the Fine and of the Imprisonment or discover the person that set him on work to the end he may be legally procéeded against No goods to be Water-born or landed but in the presence of some Officer of the Customs And be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That if any Wharfinger or Kéeper of any Wharf Crane Key or their servants or any of them shall take up or land or knowingly suffer to be taken up or landed or shall Ship off or suffer to be Water-born at or from any of their said Wharfs Cranes or Keys any Goods Wares or Merchandize prohibited or whereof any Custom Subsidy or other Duties are due and payable unto the Kings Majesty without the presence of some of the Officers of His Majesties Customs thereunto appointed or at hours and times not appointed by Law except in the Port of Hull 1 Eliz cap. 11. as in the Statute of the First year of Quéen Elizabeth Chapter the eleventh is excepted not otherwise or Goods passing by Certificates Waste-Cockquet The Penalty or otherwise without the presence or notice given to one or more of His Majesties Officers That in every such case all and every such Wharfinger and Kéeper of such Wharfe Crane or Key shall forfeit and pay the sum of One hundred pounds And if any Goods or Merchandize shall be Laden or taken in from the Shore into any Bark Hoy Lighter Barge Wherry or Boat to be carried aboard any Ship or Vessel Outwards bound for the parts beyond the Seas or Laden or taken in from or out of any Ship or Vessel coming in and arriving from foreign parts without a Warrant and presence of one or more Officers of the Customs such Bark Hoy Lighter Barge Boat or Wherry shall be forfeited and lost and the Master Purser Boatswain or other Mariner of any Ship Inward bound knowing and consenting thereunto shall forfeit the value of the Goods so unshipped And further That in case any Car-man Porter Water-man or other person or persons whatsoever shall assist in the taking up landing shipping off or carrying away any such Goods Wares or Merchandizes that then such Carman Porter Water-man or other person or persons so offending being apprehended by Warrant of any Iustice of the Peace for that County City or Borough which the said Iustices every of them are hereby Authorized to issue and to examine Witnesses upon Oath concerning such fact and the same being proved by the Oath of Two Witnesses the said Offenders for such first Offence shall and may by such Iustice of the Peace be committed to the next Gaol there to remain till he and they find sufficient Surety to be of the good behaviour for so long time until he they shall be thereof discharged by the Lord Treasurer Chancellor Vnder-Treasurer or Barons of the Exchequer And in case he or they so convicted shall afterwards at any time offend in the like kind then he and they shall and may by any Iustice of the Peace as aforesaid be committed to the next Gaol there to remain for the space of Two Moneths without Bail or Mainprize or until he shall pay unto the Sheriff of that County the sum of Five pounds for the use of His Majesty or until he shall by the Lord Treasurer Chancellor or Vnder-Treasurer or Court of Exchequer be thence discharged Be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That if any Goods Wares or Merchandizes shall be shipped or put on Board to be carried forth to the open Sea from any one Port Goods carryed from one Port to another in England or Wales Créek or Member in the Kingdom of England Dominion of Wales or Port and Town of Berwick to be landed at any other place of this Realm without a Sufferance or Warrant first had and obtained from the said person or persons which are or shall be appointed for managing the Customs and Officers of his Majesties Customs all such Wares and Merchandizes shall be forfeited and lost and that the Master of every Ship or Vessel that shall lade or take in any such Goods Wares or Merchandizes in any Port Member or Créek within this Kingdom of England Dominion of Wales or Town and Port of Berwick to be landed and discharged in some other Port Member or Créek of the said Kingdom of England Dominion of Wales or Town and Port of Berwick shall before the Ship or Vessel be removed or carried out of the Port where he shall take in his lading take out a Cocquet or Cocquets and become bound to the Kings Majesty with good Security in the value of the Goods Wares and Merchandizes aforesaid for Delivery and Discharge thereof in the Port or place for which the same shall be entred as aforesaid or in some other Port or place within the said Kingdom of England Dominion of Wales or Port and Town of Berwick and the dangers and accidents of the Seas excepted to return a Certificate within Six moneths after the date of such Cocquet and Cocquets under the Hands and Seals of the Kings Majesties Officers Signed also by some of the said person or persons which are or shall be appointed by His Majesty for managing the Customs or their Deputy or Deputies in every respective Ports Members or Créeks where the same shall be landed and discharged to His Majesties Officers of the Customs to whom such security hath béen given as aforesaid that such Goods Wares and Merchandizes were there landed and discharged accordingly Officers of any Port making false certificate upon the penalty of the forfeiture of the Bond and Security aforesaid And be it hereby further Enacted That if any Officer of any Port Member or Créek shall grant or make any false Certificate of any Goods or Merchandizes which should have béen landed out of any Ship or Vessel That such Officer shall lose his Imployment and moreover forfeit the sum of Fifty pounds The Penalty and suffer one years Imprisonment without bail or mainprize and be incapable of serving his Majesty in any place of Trust concerning his Customs and be further liable to such Corporal punishment as the Court of Exchequer shall think fit Counterfeiting Cocquets Certificates c. The penalty And if any person whatsoever shall Counterfeit Rase or Falsifie any Cocquet Certificate or Return Transire Let-pass or any other Custom-house Warrant he shall forfeit
herein contained The eights and duties of Aulnage saved shall extend or be construed to extend to take away any of the Rights Duties or Customs of or belonging to the Office and Place of his Majesties Aulnager or his Deputy or Deputies within the said West-Riding But that he or they shall or may from time to time do and perform all and every matter and thing to him or them belonging according to the Laws and Statutes of this Realm And also receive all Fées due and accustomed to the said Office belonging in as large and ample manner as he or they might or ought to have done before the making of this present Act Any thing herein contained to the contrary thereof in any wise notwithstanding Provided always and it is further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That neither the said Supervisers Masters Wardens and Assistants nor any of them Proviso that Rates of wages of workmen may not be set by colour of this Act. nor any other person or persons frée of the said Corporation of Broad Woollen Clothiers shall by any Authority derived from this Act or by colour thereof set or impose any other or lesser Rates or Wages upon any inferiour Workmen Servants or Labourers to be imployed by them or any of them in the said Manufacture then such as shall be from time to time allowed and approved of by the Iustices of the Peace in their Quarter-Sessions according to the Laws and Statutes touching Labourers in that case made and provided Provided also That this Act continue to the end of the First Session of the next Parliament The Continuance of this Act. and no longer CAP. XXXIII For preventing Abuses in Printing Seditious Treasonable and Unlicensed Books and Pamphlets and for Regulating of Printing and Printing-Presses WHereas the well-government and Regulating of Printers and Printing-Presses is matter of Publick care and of great Concernment especially considering Regulating of Printing of great Concirnment that by the general Licentiousness of the late Times many evil-disposed persons have béen encouraged to Print and Sell Heretical Schismatical Blasphemous Seditious and Treasonable Books Pamphlets and Papers and still do continue such their unlawful and exorbitant practice to the high dishonour of Almighty God the endangering the peace of these Kingdoms and raising a disaffection to His most Excellent Majesty and His Government For prevention whereof no surer means can be advised then by reducing and limiting the number of Printing-Presses and by ordering and setling the said Art or Mystery of Printing by Act of Parliament in manner as herein after is expressed The Kings most Excellent Majesty by and with the Consent and Advice of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal and Commons in this present Parliament assembled Pamphlets and Books prohibited to be printed published or sold doth therefore Ordain and Enact and be it Ordained and Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That no person or persons whatsover shall presume to Print or cause to be Printed either within this Realm of England or any other His Majesties Dominions or in the parts beyond the Seas any Heretical Seditious Schismatical or offensive Books or Pamphlets wherein any Doctrine or Opinion shall be asserted or maintained which is contrary to Christian Faith or the Doctrine or Discipline of the Church of England or which shall or may tend or be to the scandal of Religion or the Church or the Government or Governors of the Church State or Common-wealth or of any Corporation or particular person or persons whatsoever nor shall Import Publish Sell or dispose any such Book or Books or Pamphlets nor shall cause or procure any such to be Published or put to Sale or to be bound Stitched or Sewed together And be it further Ordained and Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That no private person or persons whatsoever shall at any time hereafter Print or cause to be Printed any Book or Pamphlet whatsoever unless the same Book and Pamphlet together with all and every the Titles Epistles Prefaces Proems Preambles Introductions Tables Dedications and other matters and things thereunto annexed Entry of printed Books with the Register of the Company of Stationers London be first Entred in the Book of the Register of the Company of Stationers of London Except Acts of Parliament Proclamations and such other Books and Papers as shall be appointed to be Printed by vertue of any Warrant under the Kings Majesties Sign Manual or under the hand of one or both of His Majesties Principal Secretaries of State and unless the same Book and Pamphlet and also all and every the said Titles Epistles Prefaces Proems Preambles Introductions Tables Dedications and other matters and things whatsoever thereunto annexed or therewith to be Imprinted shall be first lawfully Licensed and Authorized to be Printed by such person and persons only as shall be constituted and appointed to License the same according to the direction and true meaning of this present Act herein after expressed Who may Licence Books concerning the Common Laws to be-Printed and by no other that is to say That all Books concerning the Common Laws of this Realm shall be Printed by the special allowance of the Lord Chancellor or Lord Kéeper of the Great Seal of England for the time being the Lords Chief Iustices and Lord Chief Baron for the time being or one or more of them or by their or one or more of their appointments And that all Books of History concerning the State of this Realm or other Books concerning any Affairs of State Books of History and Affairs of State Concerning Heraldry shall be Licensed by the Principal Secretaries of State for the time being or one of them or by their or one of their appointments And that all Books to be Imprinted concerning Heraldry Titles of Honour and Armes or otherwise concerning the Office of Earl Marshal shall be Licensed by the Earl Marshal for the time being or by his appointment or in case there shall not then be an Earl Marshal shall be Licensed by the Thrée Kings of Armes Garter Clarencieux and Norroy or any two of them whereof Garter Principal King of Armes to be one Divinity Physick Philosophy or other Science And that all other Books to be Imprinted or Reprinted whether of Divinity Physick Philosophy or whatsoever other Science or Art shall be first Licensed and allowed by the Lord Archbishop of Canterbury and Lord Bishop of London for the time being or one of them or by their or one of their appointments or by either one of the Chancellors or Vice-Chancellors of either of the Vniversities of this Realm for the time being Provided always that the said Chancellors or Vice-Chancellors of either of the said Vniversities shall onely License such Books as are to be Imprinted or Reprinted within the limits of the said Vniversities respectively but not in London or elsewhere not medling either with Books of the Common Laws or matters of State or
being John Lord Viscount Scudamore in the Kingdome of Ireland Roger Vaughan Herbert Westfaling Thomas Price Esquires William Gregory Richard Philpots William Philips James Lawrence Thomas Homes Thomas Painard Thomas Bond William Edwin Aldermen Edward Alderne Doctor of Laws Edward Rodd Nicholas Philpots John Smith Mercer Hugh Rodd Thomas Symmonds Roger Bouleot and John Barnes Gentlemen Hertford For the County of Hertford Sir Edward Turnor Speaker of the House of Commons Thomas Lord Viscount Fanshaw of the Kingdome of Ireland Sir Thomas Fanshaw Knight of the Honourable Order of the Bath William Cecil Algernon Cecil William Willoughby Esquires Sir Harbotle Grimstone Baronet Master of the Rolls Sir Edward Atkins one of the Barons of His Majesties Court of Exchequer Sir Thomas Leventhorp Sir Brocket Spencer Sir Jonathan Keat Sir Erasmus Harby Sir Thomas Allen Baronets Sir Richard Atkins Sir Richard Francklyne Sir Richard Lucy Knights and Baronets Sir Philip Boteler Knight of the Bath Sir Thomas Dacres Sir John Harrison Sir Francis Boteler Sir Henry Caesar sir William Godbold sir Rowland Litton sir John Gore sir Harry Coninsby sir John Watts sir Henry Blunt sir Humphrey Gore sir John Hale sir William Glascocke sir Robert Josceline sir Richard Comb sir Walter Walker Knights Thomas Docwra James VVillimot Richard Goulstone Thomas Dacres Edward VVingate John Copping Arthur Bolter Thomas Stanley John Heydon Robert Ashton William Glascocke William Hale Arthur Sparkes John Fotherly _____ Crafts of Nerthall John Halsey William Harbord John Jesson Edward Atkins William Cotton Albon Cox John Briscoe Ralph Freeman senior Robert Hobotham Richard Jennings Edmond Smith Robert Sadler Henry Chancy Ralph Freeman junior Humphrey Shalcross Henry Guy VVilliam Nuce Thomas Offley Henry Dunstar Alexander Meade Richard Gammon Esquires Edward Cason George Needham Ralph Gore Henry Becher Marmaduke Royden Edward Briscoe George Bromely John Ellis Edmond Field William Greenhill Edward Crosby Alexander Weild Gentlemen Captain William Minoes Thomas Arris Robert Dean Doctors of Physick and the Mayor of Hertford for the time being St. Albans For the Borough of St. Albans Algernon Cecil Esquire Sir Harbotle Grimstone Master of the Rolls Sir Richard Francklin Sir Harry Conisby Sir Richard Combe Sir John VVhittwrong Knights the Mayor for the time being John Simpson Esquire Recorder Robert Rohotham Edmond Smith Thomas Docwra Robert Sadler Richard Jenings VVilliam Cotton Iohn Jesson Alban Cox Esquires Thomas Arris Doctor of Physick Thomas Cowley senior Thomas Cowley junior William Marston Thomas Oxton Edward Eames Iohn Gape Iohn New and Robert New Aldermen Huntington For the County of Huntington Charles Lord Le de Spencer son and heir apparent to Mildmay Earl of Westermland Robert Viscount Mandevil Son and Heir apparent to Edward Earl of Manchester Lord Chamberlain of His Majesties Houshold Sir Francis Compton Knight George Mountague Esquire Sir John Cotton Sir John Hewet Sir Thomas Proby Sir Robert Bernard Baronets Stephen Anderson John Stone John Bernard Henry Williams Robert Appreece Lyonel Walden Nicholas Johnson Sutton Ashfeild Nicholas Peadley Lawrence Torkinton John Heron Robert Pain Anthony South Richard Elmes Thomas Rouse Richard Nailer Jasper Trice Gerrard Cater John Ferrer Richard Wyn Esquires Thomas Colestone Thomas Shepherd William Sparrow Gentleman and Thomas Walwin Mayor of Huntington Town of Huntington For the Town of Huntington The Mayor for the time being Robert Viscount Mandevil son and heir apparent to Edward Earl of Manchester Lord Chamberlain of His Majesties Houshold Sir John Cotton Baronet Sir Robert Bernard Henry VVilliams Lyonel Walden Nicholas Pedley Esquires Richard Astre Lawrence Torkington John Barnard Richard Weaver Thomas Judson and James Faireside Aldermen Kent For the County of Kent Charles Lord Buckhurst son and heir apparent to Richard Earl of Dorset Philip Viscount Strangford in the Kingdom of Ireland James Herbert John Tufton Richard Tufton Esquires Sir Thomas Twisden One of the Iustices of the Kings Bench Sir Heneage Finch His Majesties Solicitor General Sir Thomas Peyton Sir Roger Twisden Sir Edward Hales Sir Edward Monins Sir Henry Palmer Sir John Rivers sir John Sidley Sir William Meredith Sir Edward Deering Sir Thomas Style Sir Oliver Botteler Sir Norton Knatchbull Sir Peter Heyman sir John Tufton Sir John Raney Sir Richard Hardres Sir Henry Wood Sir Robert Hales Sir Bazil Dixwell Sir VVilliam Ducy sir Marmaduke Gresham sir William Wilde sir Stephen Leonard sir Humphrey Miller sir Edward Honywood sir John Marsham sir John Banckes sir Robert Barnham Baronets sir Nathaniel Powell sir Robert Austen sir John Seyliard sir John Wroth sir Jonathan Keate Baronets Sir George Sonds Knight of the Bath sir John Mennes Comptroller of His Majesties Navy sir Robert Honywood sir Anthony Aucher sir Isaac Sydley sir VVilliam Man sir Thomas Godfrey sir Richard Sandys sir Thomas Engham sir Arnold Braems sir Henry Oxinden sir Edward Master sir George Juxon sir VVilliam Brodnax sir John Darrel sir Thomas Scot sir Francis Clerke sir Edward Filmore sir Thomas Culpeper sir Theophilus Biddolph sir Richard Betenson sir VVilliam Leech sir Edmond Peirce sir William Boreman sir Bernard Hyde sir William Swan sir Anthony Bateman sir Walter Vane sir John Heath Attourney of the Dutchy sir Thomas Lee sir William Hugeson sir William de Laune Knights sir William Cage Knight Thomas Broome Serjeant at Law Silas Titus Groom of His Majesties Bedchamber Thomas Hardres Recorder of the City of Canterbury Captain John Stroude Lieutenant of Dover Castle John Boys of Fredvil Richard Master Thomas Culpeper of Hackington Thomas Peke Thomas Crispe of Queux Walter Braems Thomas Brodnax Edward Master Thomas Turner William Rooke John Boys of Hoade John Best John Cason Henry Oxinden of Brooke Richard Aldworth Esquire Doctor John Sabin Herbert Randolph Gentleman Nicholas Toke Henry Thornehill John Knatchbull James Brockman Maurice Diggs Henry Deering Edward Hales Richard Hulse John Nayler Esquires Robert Lewkenor Peter Heymon John Moyle Zouch Brockman John Nowrs Gentlemen Thomas Fludd William Cage Francis Barneham Maximilian Dallison Ferdinando Marsham Demetrius James George Curteis Thomas Knatchbul Richard Wilkinson John Mum Ralph Bufkin Walter Franklin Richard Marsh Thomas English Robert Oliver John Smith Thomas Harlakenden Henry Haughton Alabaster Fludd Francis Twisden Captain John Clerke Thomas Lake Recorder of Maidstone Richard Duke William Maddox Esquires The Mayor of Rochester for the time being Richard Allen Recorder of Rochester George Newman Richard Manley George May Richard Head Charles Bickerstaffe Robert Fowler Francis Barrel Esquire Stephen Alcocke senior Thomas Manley Gentleman Laurence Booke Thomas Brewer Robert Masters Samuel Boys William Boys Thomas Culpeper of Bedgbury Edward Finch John Horsemanden Anthony Fowle Robert Fowle John Hugeson John Bunce Thomas Lambert David Polhill Philip Packer George Polhill Henry Gilburn William Hooker John Scott Mark Cottle John Hyde Norton Curteys Robert Heath Francis Heath John Austin John Evelin William Swan John Seyliard Nicholas Tooke senior James Fortrey Nicholas Tooke junior William Boothby Christopher Allanson _____ Bevin Thomas Manning _____ Petley John Bridger _____ Farnaby Edward Badby John Sedley Esquires James
Thomas Nutt sir George Courthop sir Henry Peckham sir Henry Onslow and sir William Craven Knights George Parker George Nevil Thomas Sackvil Henry Goring Percy Goring VVilliam Garway Iohn May Herbert Morley John Eversfeild junior Nisel Rivers Anthony Shurley John dela Chambers Charles Bret John Peckham John Garway Samuel Gott Edward Polhill Roger Showswell Robert Anderson John Forrington Brewen Bichley Edward Morley Allen Carr Richard Bridges Peter Courthop Edward Keeling Henry Shelley Benjamin Culpeper Henry Bill VVilliam Spence Edward May Mr. Simon Smith Alexander Jermin of Luddington Robert Fowle Thomas Collings Walter Everden William Dyke Sackvil Graves Nicholas Gildridge Thomas Foster Henry Chown Edward Payne Henry Bish Edward Michelburn Philip Packer John Steward John Baker of Withiam William Gratwick Richard Shepherd Stephen French and Thomas Henshaw junior of Billinghâ—rst Esquires Richard May Abraham Chapman Thomas Palmer Richard Cooper Thomas Bebsworth Matthew Young Thomas Levit Richard Young Alderman John Luxford of Ocley Ambrose Trayton Henry Shelley William Lane William Vinal John Oliver Thomas Peckham John Fuller of VValdron Robert Pickering John Baker junior John Hay of Glindborn Roger Bish Robert Palmer Francis Gratwick William Palmer Richard Nash William Westbrook Christopher Coles John Munck Thomas Barnard Thomas Payne John Payne Arthur Lovet Thomas Bromfeild senior Richard Alchorn Thomas Bromfeild junior Bray Chown Anthony Eversfeild Edward Chowney John Gratwich of Eatons Joseph Newington John Dive William Hartridge Alexander Stapeley Robert Brooke senior Gentlemen The respective Mayors of Chichester Arundel Hasting Rye and Winchelsey for the time being The Bailiffs of Seaford and Davensey for the time being Thomas Middleton Gent. John King and Henry King Esquires Warwick For the County of Warwick Sir Francis Compton Knight Foulk Grevil Charles Leigh Esquires Sir Robert Holt Sir Richard Temple Sir Henry Puckering alias Newton Sir Edward Boughton Sir Roger Burgoyne Sir John Knightley Sir Clement Fisher Sir Herbert Price Sir Thomas Norton Baronets Sir William Bromley Sir Stephen Hales Knights of the Bath Sir George Devereux Sir Francis Willoughby Sir Charles Adderley Sir Charles Lee Sir William Palmer Sir Arthur Caley Sir VVilliam Underhil Sir Comb Wagstaffe Sir Richard Hopkins Sir Richard Bishop Sergeant at Arms Knights Amos Walrond Walter Chetwin senior VVilliam Booth of Witton John Bridgeman John Ferrers Richard Lucy Thomas Archer Clement Throckmorton VVilliam Somervile Francis Willoughby Seabright Rippington VVilliam Dilkes Havey Bagot George Fielding Richard Newdigate Serjeant at Law Thomas Flint Thomas Temple Thomas Boughton John Rous VVilliam Purifoy John Clopton Henry Ferrers Charles Newsham John Lisle of Moxal Richard Verney of Kingston Charles Bentley Giles Palmer Nicholas Overby Edward Underhill Thomas Marriot Humphrey Jennings Thomas Corbin John Fetherston George Sacheverel James Prescut Thomas Rawlins of Stratford Esquires The Mayor of Warwick for the time being The Mayor of Stratford for the time being The Bayliffs of Tamworth for the time being Coventry For the City and County of the City of Coventry The Mayor for the time being Sir Thomas Norton Baronet Sir Clement Fisher Sir Arthur Caley Sir Richard Hopkins Sir Charles Adderley Knights Thomas Flint Edmund Palmer Esquires Henry Smith Matthew Smith Julius Billers Aldermen Humphrey Burton Coroner Worcester For the County of Worcester Sir John Packington Sir William Russel Sir Henry Littleton Sir Edward Seabright Sir William Kyte Sir Thomas Rouse Baronets Sir Ralph Clare Knight of the Bath Sir Henry Herbert Sir Rowland Berkley Sir John Talbot Sir John Windford Knights Colonel Samuel Sandys Samuel Sandys junior William Sandys Sharington Talbot Tho. Savage Edward Pitts Francis Russel Francis Finck Edward Carey Joseph Welch VVilliam Wasborn Thomas Child Henry Townshend Thomas Wild John Nanfan Thomas Street Henry Parker Leonard Simpson Theophilus Andrews Richard Dowdeswel Henry Bromley of Upton William Mucklo Littleton Clent Edward Bushel Richard Vernon Charles Cornwallis Walter Savage Thomas Jolliffe Thomas Symmons Humphrey Littleton Thomas Foley Philip Parsons Anth. Crump William Baldwin Henry Evett William Hancock John Charlet Thomas Watson of Bengworth Henry Spiller VVilliam Ligon Henry Bromley of Holt Edward Dingly Henry Jefferies Broom Whorwood Philip Brace Francis Sheldon John Bearcroft Bridges Nanfan Esquires The Mayor of Evesham for the time being The Bailiffs of Droitwich for the time being The Bailiffs of Bewdly for the time being John Barnaby of Bockleton Esquire Worcester City For the City and County of the City of Worcester The Mayor Aldermen and Sheriff for the time being Sir John Packington Baronet sir Rowland Berkley Knight sir William Moreton Knight one of his Majesties Sergeants at Law Thomas Hall Thomas Street Thomas Wild Tho. Vernon Thomas Harris Esquires Humphrey Wildy Richard Beddoes Thomas Harrison Wintour Harris John Bearcroft Francis Hughes Humphry Tirer Gent. Wilts For the County of Wilts Henry Lord Herbert Son and Heir apparent to Edward Marquess of Worcester the Lord John Seymour VVilliam Lord Herbert of Cardiffe Son and Heir apparent to Philip Earl of Pembrooke and Mountgomery Henry Viscount Cornbury Son and Heir apparent to Edward Earl of Clarendon Lord Chancellor of England Sir Edward Nicholas Knight one of His Majesties most Honourable Privy Council Sir Robert Hyde Knight Chief Iustice of the Kings-Bench Edward Howard Philip Howard Esquires Sir Walter St. John Sir Seymour Pile Sir George Grubham-How Sir Walter Ernle Sir Giles Tooker Baronets Sir John Coventry Sir John Nicholas Sir Edward Hungerford Sir Edward Baynton Knights of the Bath Sir Wadham Windham Knight one of the Iustices of the Kings Bench Sir Iames Thynne Sir John Eveline Sir Iohn Talbot Sir Edward Pool Sir George Hungerford Sir John Weld Sir John Low Sir Tho. Escourt Sir Henry Coker Sir Tho. Ivy Sir William Cawley Sir Tho. Mompesson Sir John Ernle Sir VVilliam Eyre Knights Alexander Popham Edward Seymour Richard Grâ—bham-How Robert Phillips Francis Wroughton John Pleyddal William Glanvile Henry Clarke William Jordan John Hall Esquires John Morton Baronet Richard Lewis George Ailiffe Edward Nicholas Edward Hungerford Edw. Hyde Ralph Freak Wil. Pawlet Wil. Ducket Tho. Mompesson William Broncker Walter Backland Henry Hungerford Henry Baynton Walter Long George Bond Gilbert Rawleigh Edmund Warneford Richard Harrison Richard Aldworth Alex. Thislethwart junior William York Stephen Fox Edward Goddard of Standen Thomas Bennet of Salthrop James Long Thomas Wancklin Jeoffrey Danyel John Collins John Kent Thomas Gore VVilliam Willoughby John Foyle John Norden Henry Long James Ash Edward Topp Thomas Hawles Joseph Stockman Giles Eyre Joseph Eyre Samuel Eyre Iohn Long Iohn Bowles Richard Bowles William Kent Edward Manning William Swanton Thomas Lambert Thomas Pile Robert Chaundler Thomas Hungerford VVilliam Bowles John Eyre Richard Southby Seymour Bowman Richard Escourt Rowland Plott Edward Goddard of Ogbourn John Danvers John Glanvile Henry Wallis Doctor Hierst John Escourt Benjamin Gifford Nevil Masculine Oliver Nicholas Edmund Webb Isaac Burgis Richard Long John Mompesson Henry Trenchard Symon Spatchurst Richard Davy George Ivy Samuel Ash John Davenant John Bennet Robert Challoner William Sadler Robert Hippesly Ephraim Westley
Matth. Bennet Richard Green Humph. Hyde Edm. Ansley Christ Gardiner _____ Crouch Thomas Hunt Thomas Chaffin Ferrers Gresley George Parrey Thomas Clarke Henry Clarke junior Anthony Trotman John Ellet Walter Dowse John Duke junior William Cusse John Young Walter Sharpe George Sadler Thomas Escourt Thomas Gape William Levet Christ Willoughby John Fitz-Herbert Esquires the Mayor of Wilton for the time being New-Sarum For the City of New-Sarum Sir Robert Hyde Knight Chief Iustice of the Kings Bench Sir Wadham Windham Knight one of the Iustices of the Kings Bench the Mayor for the time being Richard Coleman Recorder William Joyce Thomas Oviate Morrice Green Thomas Williams Edward Edmonds Thomas Gardiner Thomas Cutler James Harwood Thomas Ray Aldermen Sir John Low Sir Thomas Mompesson Knights Thomas Hawles William Swanton Richard Davy John Holt Thomas Chaffin Thomas Dorrel Stephen Fox Seymour Bowman Symon Spatchurst Francis Sambrooke Nicholas Johnson and Giles Clutterbook Esquires Westmerland For the County of Westmerland Sir Philip Musgrave Sir VVilliam Dalston Sir Richard Sandford Sir John Lowther senior Sir John Lowther junior Baronets Sir Thomas Strickland Sir George Dalston Knights Richard Musgrave John Lowther Allen Bellingham John Dalston James Ducket Daniel Fleming Richard Brathwayte Robert Hilton Tho. Brathwayte John Otway Nicholas Fisher Edward Nevison Lancelot Machel Thomas Gabetas Nathaniel West Edward Wilson Esq the Mayor of Appleby for the time being the Mayor of Kendal for the time being York For the West Riding of the County of York George Viscount Castleton of the Kingdom of Ireland Henry Viscount Irwin of the Kingdom of Scotland Thomas Lord Fairfax of the Kingdom of Scotland Sir Francis Fane VVilliam Earl of Dumfreeze in the Kingdom of Scotland Knight of the Bath Conyers Darcy Esquire sir Francis Wortley sir George Savil sir Thomas Osborne sir John Goodrick sir Richard Maleverer sir John Rersby sir John Key sir John Armitage sir VVilliam Ingleby sir Solomon Swaile sir VVilliam Rokesby sir Godfrey Copley sir George Wynn sir Gervas Cutler sir John Jackson sir John Lewis sir Thomas Slingsby sir George Cook Baronets sir Tho. Wharton sir Francis Fane junior Knights of the Bath sir Richard Tankred sir Jordan Crossand sir Thomas Beaumond sir Thomas Wentworth sir John Dawney sir Miles Stapleton sir William Lowther sir Francis Goodrick sir Edmund Jenings sir William Ingram sir Christopher Clapham sir Ralph Knight sir Thomas Yarborough Knights Richard Hutton Thomas Danby Walter Hawkesworth Henry Arthington Welbury Norton Charles Tancred Ambrose Pudsey Francis Rockley Robert Wirvel Walter Strickland Anthony Adeyre Francis Nevil VValter Calverley Henry Eyre Doctor of Physick Iohn Wentworth of Ellinshel John Savile of Heathly Henry Goodrick John Wentworth of VVolly Bradwardin Tindal John Vincent John Richard William Lowther Iohn Bilby Richard VVashington Richard Mountney VVilliam Hammond William Adams Thomas Yarborough VValter Lister VVilliam Drake Inglebert Leeds Cuthbert VVade Robert Harrison James Moseley John Stanhop Nicholas Stable Benjamin Norcliffe Roger Portington Edward Lewis John Thornhil William VVomble Thomas Stringer Henry Atkinson Francis VVhite Will. Spencer of Attercliffe William Godfrey Thomas Lister of Maningham Thomas Lister of Bawtree Thomas Haber John Ottway John Major Thomas Staveley Doyley Gower Thomas Fawkes Esquires Henry Cook Thomas Edmonds Jonathan Jenings John Atkinson John Preston William Witham Benjamin Wade John Dodsworth William Roundel George Clarke Jervas Bosvile Thomas Gill Richard Graham Gentlemen the Mayor of Rippon the Mayor of Doncaster the Mayor of Pontefract the Mayor of Leeds for the time being Robert Walters of Owsbourn George Fothergil Esquires For the North-Riding Charles Lord St. John of Basing Son and Heir apparent to John Marquess of Winchester Coniers Darcy Esquire sir Henry Bellasis Henry Darcy James Darcy Esqs sir Christopher Wivel sir Thomas Gower sir John Goodrick sir Metcalf Robinson sir Solom Swail sir Henry Stapleton sir David Fowles sir John Lowther sir John Napier sir Roger Langley sir William Caley sir George Marwood sir Richard Graham sir William Frankland sir Christ Wandesford Baronets sir Robert Strickland sir Richard Tancred sir Thomas Strickland sir Jordan Crossland sir William Dalton sir John Dawney sir James Pennyman sir Thomas Ingram Chancellor of the Dutchy sir Henry Cholmley sir Thomas Hebblethwaite sir Joseph Craddock sir Henry Franckland sir William Craven Knights William Wivel Edward Gower Henry Marwood James Medcalfe Matth. Hutton Robert Layton William Caley John How Thomas Danby Walter Strickland John Beverley Thomas Rookeby James Moyser John Calverley Edward Croft Thomas Robinson VVilliam Weddil John Tourner Isaac Fairfax John Wivel of Osgerby Humphrey Wharton Charles Bellasis Edward Hutchinson of Wickham Reynold Graham Major Norton Henry Bethel Roger Talbot Charles Tanckred Thomas Jackson Henry Harrison William Feilding VVilliam Robinson Edward Trotter Robert Belt Thomas Hutton James Morley Thomas Hassel Timothy Maleverer Capt. Leonard Robinson John Dodsworth William Thompson Thomas Wickham Anthony Lowther Thomas Norton VVilliam Metcalfe Henry Blackson Walter Lister John Gibson Charles Allanson Edward Gower William Gower John Coltson Esquires James Moore George Norton Francis Driffeild John Smith Thomas Waite William Spinke Allan Chamber John Hill of Thorndon John Earnley Ralph Jackson of Lazenby junior Christ Keld Henry Crosseland VVilliam Lampley William Truman Francis Cumin Robert Bushel Richard Harland Major Redman Gentlemen the Aldermen of Richmond and the Bailiffs of Scarborough for the time being For the East-Riding Sir Francis Cob Knight High Sheriff of the County Charles Lord Viscount Dungarven in the Kingdom of Ireland Sir John Hotham sir Francis Boynton sir Robert Hilyard sir John Bucke sir Watkinson Paler sir Thomas Rudston sir John Ledgerd Baronets sir Tho. Nortliffe sir Philip Mountaine sir Thomas Daniel sir Matthew Appleyard sir Thomas Renington sir Hugh Bethel sir Thomas Heblethwait sir William Cob Knights Tobias Jenkins Michael Wharton Robert Bucke Thomas Grantham Durand Hotham Hugh Lister John Constable John Lister Henry Sandys Henry Holmes Christopher Hillyard Walter Bethel George Mountain John Vavasor Jonathan Atkins Ralph Warton William Osbaldston VVilliam Grimstone Robert Sotheby Richard Robinson Thomas Crâ—mpton Samford Nevil William Gee Richard Ledgeard William Baynton Stephen Thompson Richard Thompson Henry Hillyard James Moyser Edward Bernard Thomas Hesket Gregory Creyke William Harpham Thomas Anlaby Alexander Rokeby Henry Hillyard John Stapleton Henry Portington Philip Saltmarsh John Acraid Esquires Thomas Swan Leonard Robinson VVilliam Blount John Pierson Lewis Lewins Francis Bushel Robert Constable John Belton William Dobson William Thompson Ralph Higden Richard Graham Thomas Sytheron Christopher Baukins Gentlemen the Mayor of Hedon and the Mayor of Beverly for the time being York City For the City of York and the County of the same Edward Elwicke Lord Mayor Thomas Lord Fairefax of the Kingdom of Scotland Sir Metcalfe Robinson Sir Thomas Osburne Sir Roger Langley Sir Iohn Goodrick Sir George Rive Sir Thomas Slingsby Baronet Sir Iohn Lewis Knight and Baronet Sir Miles Stapleton Knight James Brooke Christopher Topham George Lamplough George Mancklyns Richard Hewett Henry Thompson Cressey Bournet Christopher Brery
the Coals which shall be otherwise sold or exposed to sale by any Woodmonger or Retailer of Coals and the double value thereof to be recovered by any person or persons that will prosecute for the same in any Court of Record or by way of complaint made unto the Lord Mayor of London for the time being and Iustices of Peace within the City of London and Liberties thereof or to any two of them or to the Iustices of Peace of the several and respective Counties and Places where such Coals shall be exposed to sale or any of them who are hereby Impowred and Required to call the Parties before them and to hear and examine such Complaint upon Oath which by vertue of this Act is to be administred by them or any Two of them and upon due proof thereof made to their satisfaction to Convict the Offenders and to give Warrant under their Hands and Seals for levying the Forfeitures accordingly the one half thereof to be to and for the use of the person or persons so prosecuting or complaining and the other half to and for the use of the Poor or repairing of the High-wayes within the same Parish or any other adjoyning Parish or Parishes to be appointed and apportioned by the direction of the said Lord Mayor and Iustices by such their Warrant as aforesaid And the said Lord Mayor of London and the Court of Aldermen for the time being Who may set Rates upon Coals in London and the Iustices of Peace of the several Counties respectively or any thrée or more of them whereof one to be of the Quorum are hereby impowred to set the Rates and Prises of all such Coals as shall be sold by Retail as they from time to time shall judge reasonable allowing a competent profit to the said Retailer beyond the price paid by him to the Importer and the ordinary charges thereupon accruing And that if any Ingrosser or Retailer of such Coals shall refuse to sell as aforesaid Ingrossers or Retailers refusing to â—ell at the said Rates That then the said Lord Mayor and Aldermen and Iustices of Peace respectively are hereby authorised to appoint and impower such Officer or Officers or other persons as they shall think fit to enter into any Wharf or other place where such Coals are stored up And in case of refusal taking a Constable to force entrance and the said Coals to sell or cause to be sold at such Rates as the said Lord Mayor and Aldermen and Iustices respectively shall judge reasonable rendring to such Ingrosser or Retailer the money for which the said Coals shall be so sold necessary charges being deducted The continuance of this Act. Provided That this Act shall continue for thrée years next ensuing and thenceforth to the end of the next Session of Parliament and no longer Provided also That no person or persons that shall be sued by vertue of this Act for not observing thereof shall be sued upon any other Act or Law now in force for the same offence And if any Action shall be commenced against any Iustice of Peace Persons sued upon this Act may plead the general issue Constable or other Officer or Person for any thing done by colour of this Act the Defendant in every such Action may plead the general Issue and give the special matter in Evidence And if the Verdict be found for him or the Plaintiff become Non-suited shall recover and have his Damages and double Costs of suit for his unjust Vexation in that behalf Who may not act in setting Rates upon Coals Provided always That no Person having any Interest in any Wharf used for the receiving or uttering of Coals or that doth or shall Trade by himself or others in his own or any other name in the sale of any Coals or the Engrossing the same in order to sell the same and not for his own private use onely shall act or otherwise intermeddle in the setting the Price of Coals Any thing in this Act to the contrary in any wise notwithstanding CAP. III. For the Returning of able and sufficient Jurors FOr the returning of more able and sufficient Iurors for Trials hereafter to be had betwéen Party and Party and for reformation of abuses in Sheriffs and other Ministers who for reward do oftentimes spare the ablest and sufficientest and return the poorer and simpler Fréeholders less able to discern the Causes in question and to bear the charges of appearance and attendance thereon Be it Enacted by the Kings most Excellent Majesty by and with the Advice and Consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal and Commons in this present Parliament assembled and by the Authority of the same Iurors for trials of issues shall have 20 l. per annum Freehold That all Iurors other then Strangers upon Tryals per medietatem linguae who are to be returned for the Tryals of Issues joyned in any of the Kings Majesties Courts of Kings Bench Common-Pleas or the Exchequer or before Iustices of Assize or Nisi Prius Oyer and Terminer Gaol-Delivery or General or Quarter-Sessions of the Peace from and after the twentieth day of April which shall be in the year of our Lord One thousand six hundred sixty five in any County of this Realm of England shall every of them then have in their own name or in trust for thâ—â— within the same County twenty pounds by the year at least above reprises in their own or their wives right of Free-hold Lands or of ancient Demesne or of Rents in Fee Fee-tail or for life And that in every County within the Dominion of Wales every such Iuror shall then have within the same eight pounds by the year at the least above reprises in manner aforesaid All which Persons having such Estate as aforesaid are hereby enabled and made lyable to be returned and to serve as Iurors for the Tryal of Issues before the Iustices aforesaid Any Law or Statute to the contrary in any wise notwithstanding And if any of a lesser Estate and value shall be respectively returned upon any such Iury or Tales in default of such Iurors it shall be a good cause of Challenge and the Party returned shall be discharged upon the said Challenge or his own Allegation and Oath thereof And that no Iury-mans Issues making default shall be saved but by special Order of the Iudge or Iudges before whom the Issue is to be tryed Issues of Iurors upon default for some just and reasonable cause proved upon Oath before the same Iudge or Iudges And all such Issues shall be duly estreated and levied The Ven ' fac And that the Writ of Venire facias which from and after the aforesaid time shall be awarded and directed for the impannelling of Iuries in cases aforesaid within any County of England shall be in this form Rex c. Praecipimus c. quod venire fac coram c. duodecem liberos legales homines
and their heirs and successors respectively by and according to his and their tenures estate title and interest which he or they had in the Mannors Lands or Tenements for or in respect of which he or they claimed or inclosed the said quantity or quantities of the said Wastes as abovesaid Provided always and be it Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That the said Commissioners and every of them before he or they take upon him or them the execution of any the Powers or Authorities hereby given them other then the administring the Oath following to one another which they shall have Authority by this present Act to administer to one another shall take the Oath following viz. The oath to be taken by Commissioners I A. B. am not interessed in possession reversion or remainder of in or to the said Fens or any part thereof And shall and will without favour or affection hatred or malice truly and impartially according to the best of my skill and knowledg execute and perform all and every the Powers and Authorities in me established by this Act of Parliament Which Oath any one of the said Commissioners are hereby authorised to administer The places of the Commissioners â—â—tting And that the places where the said Commissioners shall sit to hear order and determine the matters referred to them by this Act shall be at the Towns of Stamford Market-Deeping or Spalding in the said County of Lincoln And the said Commissioners or any seven or more of them are hereby directed by Warrant under their hands and seals to declare the places and times of their méeting The same Warrant to be published in open Market in the said Towns of Stamford Market-Deeping and Spalding betwéen the hours of twelve and two upon some Market-day one and twenty dayes at least before the said time or times of méeting to the end all persons concerned may have sufficient time and notice to attend And shall have power and Authority by Warrant under the hands and seals of any thrée or more of them Their power and manner of proceeding to summon parties and witnesses to appear before them And in case any controversy or difference shall happen to arise betwéen or amongst the said Commissioners before any Iudgment or Determination given by them in the premisses touching or concerning the exposition of the words of this Act or the powers or authorities thereby to them given Then the Lord Chief Iustice of the Kings Bench the Lord Chief Iustice of the Common-Pleas and the Lord Chief Baron of his Majesties Court of Exchequer for the time being are hereby constituted and established a Iudicature and they or any two of them are hereby authorized to hear adjudg and determine such controversies and differences And their Iudgment or determination thereof certified under their hands seals shall be observed and shall be likewise certified together with the Iudgments and determinations of the said Commissioners into the Petty-bag there to be kept on Record as aforesaid CAP. XII The River Avon to be made Navigable from Christ-Church to the City of New-Sarum WHereas the making Navigable and passable with Barges Boats Lighters and other Vessels the River Avon in the Counties of Wilts and Southampton from the Town of Christ-Church in the said County of Southampton to the City of New-Sarum in the said County of VVilts And if néed require the making of a new Haven may with Gods blessing be of great advantage and benefit not only to the said Counties but also to the Publick by import and export of Commodities and increase of Commerce and Trade and of able Seamen and Watermen and most profitable and necessary for the said City of New-Sarum for the conveyance thereby of Fewel and other necessaries to the said City whereof there is now great scarcity and far greater is like to grow if some help therefore be not provided besides the extraordinary preservation of the High-ways in and near the said City and County Commissioners how to be appointed for making the river Avon navigable Be it therefore Enacted by the Kings Majesty by and with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal and Commons in this present Parliament assembled and by the Authority of the same That the Lord Chancellor or Lord Kéeper of the Great Seal of England for the time being at any time after the end of this present Session of Parliament shall and may nominate appoint and authorize by Commission under the Great Seal of England such person or persons Bodies Politick and Corporate as to him shall séem fit and are willing to undertake the making Navigable the said River of Avon from the said Town of Christ-Church to the said City of New-Sarum And to make a new Haven if néed require for Ships and Vessels near the said Town of Christ-Church Which said Vndertakers so nominated and appointed as aforesaid are hereby authorized and shall have full power and authority by this present Act to make Navigable or passable by Barges Boats Lighters or other Vessels the said River of Avon from the said Town of Christ-Church to the City of New-Sarum aforesaid And for that purpose to cleanse scour and open the same and to cut or dig the Banks of the same and to take away or remove all Wears or other Impediments that may hinder Navigation either in sailing or haling of Boats with Horses Men or otherwise to amend or alter such Bridges and High-ways as may hinder the said Passages and Navigation and to open prepare and make all Wears Sasses Locks and Turn-pikes fit for the said Passage And likewise to cleanse scour open or cut and dig the Banks of any other Stream Brook Ditch or Water-course that shall to them séem convenient for the better making the said River Navigable and passable for Boats Barges Lighters and other Vessels And likewise to make and erect any Wharfs Sasses Locks Turnpikes or pens for Water in or near the said River or Passage that shall be fit or necessary for the same and to bring lay and work all Materials requisite for the making erecting and repairing of the said Locks or Turnpikes upon the said River or Passage and to cut such and so many new Channels and Trenches as to them shall séem convenient for altering the course of the said River of Avon in bringing the same to the City of New-Sarum as aforesaid as also for the bringing in any other River or Water-course into the said River and to do all other things necessary and convenient for the said River and Passages new Channels Wharfs Sasses Locks Wears Turnpikes Penns for Water and the said Bridges Ways and Passages and for the altering repairing kéeping using and amending of the same or any of them or any part of them from time to time hereafter as oft as néed shall require and also if néed require to make a commodious Haven and Port near the said Town of Christ-Church for the Entry
therefore Enacted by the Kings most Excellent Majesty by and with the Advice and Consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal and of the Commons in this present Parliament Assembled and by the Authority of the same That the Iustices of the Courts of Kings Bench and Common Pleas Iustices appointed to hear and determine differences between Landlords and Tenants c. and the Barons of the Coife of the Exchequer for the time being or any thrée or more of them sitting at the same time and place and not otherwise shall be and are hereby Authorized from time to time to hear and to determine all Differences and Demands whatsoever which have arisen or may any wise arise betwéen Landlords Proprietors Tenants Lessées Vnder-tenants or late Occupiers of any the said Houses or Buildings with their appurtenances or the Courts or Yards Grounds and Wharfs or any person or persons having or claiming any Estate Right Title Interest in Law or Equity or Trust Charge or Incumbrance of or in the same or their or any of their Heirs Executors Administrators Successors or Assigns or any other persons for touching or concerning the Repairing Building or Rebuilding of the said Houses or Buildings Yards Courts Grounds and Wharfs or any other Grounds lying within that part of the City and Suburbs thereof lately burnt pulled down or otherwise demolished defaced or otherwise ruined by reason of the said Fire or for or concerning the payment defalcation apportioning or abatement of any Rent or Rents other then Arrears of Rent onely due before the First day of September One thousand six hundred sixty and six or for or touching any Covenant Condition or penalty relating thereunto or for touching or concerning the prefixing or limiting of any time for such Repairs or new Building Rebuilding or any Rate or Contribution to be born or paid thereunto by any person or persons Bodies Politick or Corporate interessed in the premisses and all Incidents relating thereunto And that they or any thrée or more of them from time to time with or without any Adjournment summarily and sine forma figura Judicii and without the formalities of procéedings in Courts of Law or Equity shall and may upon the Verdict or Inquisition of Iurors testimony of witnesses upon Oath Examination of parties interessed or by all or any of the said ways or otherwise according to their Discretions procéed to the hearing and determining of the Demands or Differences betwéen the said parties concerning the premisses and that the definitive Order of the said Iustices and Barons or any thrée or more of them as aforesaid shall be final as betwéen the said parties their Heirs Executors Administrators Successors and Assigns and all claiming by from or under them as touching the matters contained in such Orders from which there shall be no Appeal or Review otherwise then as is hereafter mentioned Nor shall any Writ of Error or Certiorari lye for the removal or reversal of the same And be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That the said Iustices and Barons The Powers of the said Iustices or any thrée or more of them as aforesaid shall have Authority and are hereby Impowred where they shall think it convenient to Order the Surrendring Increasing Abridging Ceasing Determining or Charging of any Estates in the Premisses or to order new or longer Leases or Estates not excéeding Forty years to be made of any of the premisses by the Proprietors or Owners thereof or other persons interessed therein to any Tenant or Sub-Tenant or late Occupiers of the same their Executors Administrators Successors or Assigns at such Rents and Fines or without any Rent or Fine as they shall think fit unless in such Cases where the Laws of this Realm do forbid the Diminishing of ancient and accustomable Rents All which Orders according to the Tenors thereof shall be obeyed by all persons concerned therein respectively and shall conclude and bind them their Heirs Successors Executors Administrators and Assigns respectively notwithstanding any Disability in respect of Coverture Infancy Non-sanity of Memory Estate Tail or in Right of the Church or otherwise And that Infants Femes Covert Ideots persons of Non-sane Memory or beyond the Seas Tenants in Tail Bishops Deans and Chapters and other Ecclesiastical persons and their Successors Corporations and all other person or persons Bodies Natural and Politick their Heirs and Successors and their respective Interests shall be bound and concluded by such respective Order or Orders according to the Tenor or Purport thereof Any Law Statute or Custom or other matter or thing to the contrary notwithstanding And for the better Enabling the said Iustices and Barons to procéed with effect in the said Causes How to proceed upon Complaints Be it also Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That the said Iustices and Barons or any thrée or more of them as aforesaid upon the complaint or request of any person or persons concerned in any of the said Houses or Buildings and other the premisses shall issue out Notes or Warrants under their hands or the hands of any such thrée of them thereby warning the person or persons Bodies Politick and Corporate therein named and concerned in the said late Houses or Buildings and other the premisses in such Complaint mentioned to appear before them at such time and place as in such Note or Notes shall in that behalf be specified And upon appearance of the said person or persons summoned or upon default of appearance and Oath made of due notice given to him or them which Oath and all other Oaths necessary to the Execution of the Powers given by this Act the said Iustices and Barons or any thrée of them are hereby enabled to administer The said Iustices and Barons or any thrée of them may procéed to make such final and definitive Orders as aforesaid And that such service of the said Note or Notes as is usually allowed to be a good service in cases of Subpoena shall be accounted to be a good service in the cases aforesaid The said Indicature shall be a Court of Record And be it Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That the said Iustices and Barons or any thrée of them for the matters and according to the powers herein before mentioned shall be and shall be taken to be a Court of Record And that the Iudgements and Determinations that shall be made betwixt party and party by Authority of this Act shall be Recorded in a Book or Books of Parchment to be provided for that purpose And that every such Iudgement and Determination shall be Signed by thrée or more of the said Iustices or Barons Which said Book or Books of Record shall be placed and intrusted in the custody of the Lord Mayor and Aldermen of the City of London for the time being to be kept with the Records of the said City and to remain as a perpetual standing Record unto which all persons concerned or which shall be concerned
Estate or Estates Title or Interest which Sale so made and Inrolled of Record according to the Custom or Vsage of the said City for Inrollment of Bargains and Sales shall be final and conclusive to all other persons whatsoever and shall bar them their Heirs and Assigns to claim any Estate Right Title or Interest of in or out of the Grounds so sold precedent to the said Sale And the Purchaser or Purchasers thereof his and their Heirs and Assigns shall and may by vertue of this Act have hold and enjoy the same against all persons claiming any Estate Right Title or Interest into or out of the same his and their Heirs Executors Administrators and Assigns fréed and discharged of and from Incumbrances in Estate Title Charge or otherwise precedent to the said Sale And to the end the said Builders may receive due encouragement by having the materials for building at reasonable Prices and getting of Workmen for moderate wages Be it further Enacted That in case of Combination or unreasonable Exaction by Brick-makers Tile-makers Who may in case of unreasonable exactions set rates upon Materials and Workmen and Lime-burners It shall and may be lawful for the Iustices of the Court of Kings Bench or any two or more of them upon the complaint of the said Mayor and Court of Aldermen to call before them such a number of Brick-makers Tile-makers and Lime-burners making or burning Brick Tile or Lime at any place within Five miles distance of the River of Thames as they shall think fit and upon conference with them had concerning the premisses if they will be present or otherwise in their absence to Assess such reasonable Prices from time to time upon every Thousand of the said Bricks and Tiles and upon every hundred of the said Lime and every greater or lesser quantity to be delivered at the several Kilns And also of all Carriages of the same Materials from the said Kilns to the said City whether by Land or by Water as may equally respect the honest profit of the said Brick-makers Tile-makers Lime-burners and Carriers and the necessity and convenience of the Builder Labourers Wages And to the intent no Brick-maker Tile-maker Lime-burner Carpenter Brick-layer Mason Plaisterer Ioyner Plumber or other Artificer Workman or Labourer may make the common calamity a pretence to extort unreasonable or excessive Wages Be it likewise Enacted That in case of combination or exaction of unreasonable Wages by the said Artificers Workmen or Labourers or any of them the said Iustices of the Court of Kings-Bench or any two or more of them upon the like complaint of the said Lord Mayor and Court of Aldermen shall and may from time to time limit rate and appoint the Wages of the said Artificers Workmen and Labourers by the day wéek or otherwise and what wages every of the said Workmen shall have by the great by the Foot Yard Rod or Perch or for any greater Quantity which said Rates together with the Prices of the said Materials and Carriages so assessed being set down in a Table and Proclamation thereof made by the Lord Mayor for the time being accordingly the same shall effectually bind all persons therein concerned And if any of the said Artificers refuse to sell the said Materials for the Prices so assessed or any of the said Carpenters Bricklayers Masons Plaisterers Ioyners Plumbers or other Workmen or Labourers shall either refuse to work for the Wages so assessed or shall depart from his said work after he hath undertaken to do the same without Licence of such person or persons as imployed him and before it be finished unless it be for non-payment of his hire or other just cause to be allowed before one Iustice of the Peace of such place where the offence shall be committed or if any person or persons whatsoever shall by any secret ways or means give covenant article or agrée to give directly or indirectly by himself or any other for him any other or greater Wages Prices or other Commodity then shall be so assessed the said Offender and Offenders being thereof legally convict by the Oaths of one or more witnesses which Oath the said Iustice is hereby impowred to administer shall be by the said Iustice of the Peace forthwith committed to the Common Gaol there to remain by the space of one Moneth without Bail or Mainprize unless he shall pay or cause to be paid for every such Offence to the said Iustice of the Peace such Fine as by the discretion of the said Iustice shall be set upon any such Offender not excéeding Ten pounds Out of which Fine the said Iustice shall and may award and pay unto the party injured such satisfaction as he shall judge reasonable and the residue thereof shall pay unto the Chamberlain of London for the time being to be imployed for and towards the re-edifying of the Publick Buildings of the City aforesaid Forâ—iners may as Freemen work in London And be it further Enacted That all Carpenters Bricklayers Masons Plaisterers Ioyners and other Artificers Workmen and Labourers to be imployed in the said Buildings who are not Frée-men of the said City shall for the space of Seven years next ensuing and for so long after as until the said Buildings shall be fully finished have and enjoy such and the same liberty of working and being set to work in the said Building as the Fréemen of the City of the same Trades and Professions have and ought to enjoy Any Vsage or Custom of the City to the contrary notwithstanding And that such Artificers as aforesaid which for the space of Seven years shall have wrought in the rebuilding of the City in their respective Arts shall from and after the said seven years have and enâ—oy the same Liberty to work as Fréemen of the said City for and during their natural lives Provided always That such Artificers claiming such Priviledges shall be liable to undergo all such Offices and to pay and perform such Duties in reference to the Service and Government of the City as Fréemen of the City of their respective Arts and Trades are liable to undergo pay and perform Who may determine differences between Builders about stopping Lights c. And to remove all obstacles which otherwise may hinder so good and profitable a work Be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That all differences arising betwéen the said Builders or any others concerning placing and stopping up of Lights Windows Water-courses or Gutters which may hinder or retard the said Building shall and may be heard mediated and determined if it may be by the Alderman of the Ward where the cause of any such difference shall arise and his Deputy and if either the said Alderman or his Deputy be concerned as parties in the controversie or that they cannot determine the said Differences that then and in every such case the same be certified by the said Alderman or his Deputy unconcerned therein to the
Authority aforesaid as followeth viz. That whereas there is already provided a strong and sufficient Messuage in the Parish of S. Thomas the Apostle near the City of Exon for the purpose aforesaid Exon City and One thousand pounds more by certain Trustees upon Proposals and Agréements made by them with cetain Gentlemen Iustices of the Peace for the County of Devon Devon who have also provided One thousand pounds more in order to purchase Lands of Inheritance for the good purposes hereafter mentioned Be it Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That the said Two thousand pounds be laid out in purchase of Lands of Inheritance by Order of the General Sessions of the Peace hereafter at any time to be held in the name of such persons as by such Order shall be appointed Item That the said House with the Grounds therewith inclosed be had and used as a Common Gaol and Workhouse for the said County in manner as is after expressed Item That an Overséer be therein placed by like Order and by like Order be removeable from time to time which Overseer shall have the charge custody and government of the Prisoners to him committed according to this Act and shall have Fifty pounds per annum during the execution of his Office and Ten pounds per annum for his Deputy but shall therefore take no fées for receiving delivering or doing any other service relating to the Prisoners from or of any the said Prisoners Item That the said Iustices by like Order from time to time shall and may by approbation of the Ordinary provide and appoint some méet and discréet Minister to read Divine Service according to the Orders of the Church of England unto the Prisoners at least four days in the wéek That is to say on the Lords day each Wednesday and each Friday and Saturday and oftner if the said Iustices shall appoint and to take pains in instructing them each Lords day at the least for which they may allow him Thirty pounds per annum or after that rate the rest of the Profits to be for Repairing the House and towards finding a Stock for to set the Prisoners on work Item That any person charged with such offence onely for which Clergy is allowable if so be he be néedy and indigent and not likely to maintain himself in Gaol may by Warrant of the Iustice or Iustices of the Peace to whom Iurisdiction in that behalf appertaineth be committed to the said Workhouse in order to his Trial and if any person shall be committed to the ordinary Gaol who shall be or become so indigent he may by Warrant of thrée Iustices of Peace whereof one to be of the Quorum be removed from the ordinary Common Gaol to the said House All which Prisoners so committed or removed shall be in the custody of the Overséer and be ordered and demeaned in the said House and conveyed to the Sessions or to the Gaol-delivery by like Warrant way and means as the Prisoners in other Gaols by the Laws and Statutes of this Realm are to be ordered and demeaned And because the said Workhouse is distant from the Ordinary Common Gaol the Prisoners by Order from the Sessions or Gaol-delivery may in order to their Trials be removed to the Common Gaol to be the more ready for their Trials Item That the said Overséer shall give Security for the Stock and be liable to such Regulations and Orders for Accompts and otherwise as the Sessions shall from time to time make for setting the poor Prisoners on work there which shall be obeyed and observed That a convenient Stock be from time to time raised at the Charge of the County Item That the said Iustices of the County in Devon may put in ure all the powers in this Act as other Iustices may in any other County by vertue thereof Saving to the Kings Majesty His Heirs and Successors and to every other person and persons and their Heirs Successors Executors and Administrators all Rights Titles Claims and Demands whatsoever into or out of the said Messuages and Premisses as if this Act had never béen made CAP. V. A former Act concerning Replevins and Avowries to extend to the Principality of Wales and the County Palatines 1. Car. 2. cap. 7. WHereas by an Act of Parliament Entituled An Act for the more speedy and effectual proceeding upon Distresses and Avowries for Rents Provision is made where any Plaintiff shall Nonsuit before Issue joyned in any Suit or Replevin by Plaint or Writ lawfully returned removed or depending in any of the Kings Courts at Westminster Be it Enacted by the Kings most Excellent Majesty by and with the Advice and Consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal and Commons in this present Parliament assembled That the said Act and all the Powers and Provisions thereby made for causes of Replevins depending in His Majesties Courts of Westminster shall be extended and be of the same force and efficacy in all causes of Replevin which are or shall be depending in His Majesties Court of Common Pleas for the County Palatine of Lancaster Lancaster Wales Chester the Courts of the Great Sessions of His Majesties Principality of Wales the Court of Great Sessions or Assizes for the County Palatine of Chester and the Court of Common Pleas for the County Palatine of Durham as fully and as amply for and during the continuance of the said Act as if the said Courts had been mentioned therein CAP. VI. A Redress of Inconveniencies by want of Proof of the Deceases of Persons beyond the Seas or absenting themselves upon whose Lives Estates do depend VVHereas divers Lords of Mannors and others have used to grant Estates by Copy of Court-Roll for one two or more life or lives according to the Custome of their several Mannors and have also granted Estates by Lease for one or more life or lives or else for years determinable upon one or more life or lives And it hath often happened that such person or persons for whose life or lives such Estates have béen granted have gone beyond the Seas or so absented themselves for many years that the Lessors and Reversioners cannot find out whether such person or persons be alive or dead by reason whereof such Lessors and Reversioners have béen held out of possession of their Tenements for many years after all the lives upon which such Estates depend are dead in regard that the Lessors and Reversioners when they have brought Actions for the recovery of their Tenements have béen put upon it to prove the death of their Tenants when it is almost impossible for them to discover the same For remedy of which mischief so frequently happening to such Lessors or Reversioners Be it Enacted by the Kings most Excellent Majesty by and with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal and the Commons in this present Parliament assembled and by the Authority of the same Persons beyond the Seas or absenting
The Essoin dayes and the Essoin day of the Return of Crastino Sanctae Trinitatis And be it further enacted Writs in personal actions hauing day from tres Michaelis till Crastino Ascentionis good Proviso for writs returnable 1641. Exp. That all Writs and Process in personal Acttions hereafter to be made out of any of his Majesties said Courts at Westminster and having day from tres Michaelis untill Crastino Animarum shall be good and effectual in Law notwithstanding there be not fiftéen dayes betwixt the quarto die of the said tres septimanas sancti Michaelis and the dayes of Essoin of Crastino Animarum Any Law Statute or Vsage to the contrary heretofore notwithstanding Provided alwayes and be if further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid that all writs and Process to be made from and after the Feast of Easter in the year of our Lord God 1641. Returnable in Octabis or Quindena sancti Michaelis now next ensuing or having dayes betwixt any of the said Returns shall by force of this Act have day unto tres septimanas sancti Michaelis next and the parties to the said writs and Process shall then appear and plead and procéed thereupon to all intents and purposes as if the said Writs and Process had béen made returnable a die sancti Michaelis in tres septimanas And whereas before the making of this Act Writs of summons ad Warrantizandum upon common recoveries and writs of Right of Advowson abridged to five Returns all Writs of Summons ad Warrantizand against the Vouchées upon Common Recoveries had in writs of Entry and writs of Right of Advowson were made for nine Returns inclusive Now for the more spéedy perfecting of such Recoveries Be it Enacted by the Authority aforesaid that from and after the said Feast of Saint Michael the Archangel next all and every such writs of Summons ad Warrantizand upon the appearance of the Tenant to every such writ of Entry and writ of Right of Advowson shall and may be made and abridged to five Returns as writs of Summons ad Warrantizand in writs of Dower unde nihil habet heretofore have been used and accustomed And it is further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid that all common writs and Process Common writs process to keep the aforesaid returns as well personal as mixt which shall fortune to be returnable in the said Michaelmas Term shall have and kéep the said Returns of A die sancti Michaelis in tres septimanas a die sancti Michaelis in unum mensem in Crastino animarum in Crastino Sancti Martini in Octabis Sancti Martini and a die Sancti Martini in Quindecem dies or any of them Provided alwayes And it is further Enacted by the authority aforesaid Special dayes may be appointed as have been used Dayes in assise of Darrein presentment and in plea of quare impedit and in attaint not contrary hereto shall be firm that in such and like cases and Process as special dayes have béen used to be appointed and assigned and given for the returning of writs and Process It shall be lawful to the Iustices of every of the Kings said Courts of Record for the time being in all the Process by them awarded to assign and appoint special dayes of Returns as by their discretions shall be thought convement Provided also and be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That the dayes in Assise of Darrein presentment and in Plea of Quare Impedit limited and appointed by the Statute of Marlebridge and also the dayes to be given in Attaint limited in the Statute made in the fifth year of the Reign of the Noble King Edward the third And also in the Statute made in the thrée and twentieth year of the Raign of the late King Henry the eighth of worthy memory being not contrary to the Tenours of this Act shall be holden firm and stable and shall stand in their full force and effect CAP. VII 1 Stat. 12. Car. 2. cap. 1. This Parliament shall not be Dissolved Prorogued or Adjourned but by Act of Parliament EXP. CAP. VIII Tunnage and Poundage A Subsidy Granted to the King of Tunnage Poundage and other sums of Money payable upon Merchandize Exported and Imported from the 25th of May 1641. to the 14th of July next EXP. CAP. IX Provision of Money for the speedy Disbanding the Armies and setling the Peace of the two Kingdoms of England and Scotland by raising and charging several sums of Money upon persons according to their Ranks Dignities Offices Callings Estates and Qualities therein mentioned and Commissioners to issue for levying the same EXP. CAP. X. For Regulating the Privy Councel and for taking away the Star-Chamber-Court Recital of Maâ—â—-Châ—rlâ— and several Statutes St. 3. li. 7. 1. 5 E. 3. cap. 9. VVHereas by the Great Charter many times confirmed in Parliament It is Enacted That no Fréeman shall be taken or imprisoned or disseised of his Fréehold or Liberties or Frée Customs or be Outlawed or exiled or otherwise destroyed and that the King will not pass upon him or condemn him but by lawful Iudgment of his Péers or by the Law of the Land And by another Statute made in the fifth year of the Reign of King Edward the Third It is Enacted That no man shall be attached by any accusation nor fore-judged of life or limb nor his Lands Tenements Goods nor Chattels seised into the Kings hands against the form of the Great Charter and the Law of the Land and by another Statute made in the five and twentieth year of the Reign of the same King Edward the Third 25 E. 3. cap. 4. Stat. 5. It is accorded assented and established that none shall be taken by petition or suggestion made to the King or to his Councel unless it be by Indictment or Presentment of good and lawful people of the same Neighbourhood where such Déeds be done in due manner or by Process made by Writ Original at the Common Law and that none be put out of his Franchise or Free-hold unless he be duly brought in to answer and foreiudged of the same by the course of the Law and if any thing be done against the same it shall be redressed and holden for none 28 E. 3. cap. 3. And by another Statute made in the eight and twentieth year of the reign of the same King Edward the Third It is amongst other things Enacted That no man of what Estate or condition soever he be shall be put out of his Lands or Tenements nor taken nor imprisoned nor disinherited without being brought in to answer by due process of Law And by another Statute made in the two and fortieth year of the Reign of the said King Edward the Third 42 E. 3. c. 3. It is Enacted That no man be put to answer without presentment before Iustices or matter of Record or by due process and writ original according to the Old Law of
the Land and if any thing be done to the contrary it shall be void in Law and holden for error And by another Statute made in the six and thirtieth year of the same King Edward the Third 36 E. 3. c. 15. It is amongst other things Enacted That all pleas which shall be pleaded in any Courts before any the Kings Iustices or in his other places or before any of his other Ministers or in the Courts and places of any other Lords within the Realm shall be entred and inrolled in Latine And whereas by the Statute made in the third year of King Henry the seventh 3 H. 7. cap. 1. power is given to the Chancellor the Lord Treasurer of England for the time being and the Kéeper of the Kings Privy Seal or two of them calling unto them a Bishop and a Temporal Lord of the Kings most Honourable Councel and the two Chief Iustices of the Kings Bench and Common Pleas for the time being or other two Iustices in their absence to procéed as in that Act is expressed for the punishmâ—â—â— of some particular offences therein mentioned And by the Statute made in the One and tâ—â—ntieth year of King Henry the Eighth 21 H. 8. cap. 20 The President of the Councel is associated to joyn with the Lord Chancellor and other Iudges in the said Statute of the third of Henry the seventh mentioned But the said Iudges have not kept themselves to the points limited by the said Statute but have undertaken to punish where no Law doth warrant and to make Decrées for things having no such Authority and to inflict heavier punishments then by any Law is warranted All matters â—â—â—minable in 〈◊〉 Star-Chamber maâ— be â—â—â—â—â—nable and 〈◊〉 â—â—o by the Common Law And forasmuch as all matters examinable or determinable before the said Iudges or in the Court commonly called the Star-Chamber may have their proper remedy and redress and their due punishment and correction by the Common Law of the Land and in the Ordinary course of Iustice elswhere and forasmuch as the reasons and motives inducing the erection and continuance of that Court do now cease and the procéedings Censures and Decrées of that Court have by experience been found to be an intolerable burthen to the Subject and the means to introduce an Arbitrary Power and Government And forasmuch as the Councel-Table hath of late times assumed unto it self a power to intermeddle in Civil causes and matters only of private interest betwéen party and party and have adventured to determine of the Estates and Liberties of the Subiect contrary to the Law of the Land and the Rights and Priviledges of the Subject by which great and manifold mischiefs and inconveniencies have arisen and happened and much incertainty by means of such procéedings hath béen conceived concerning Mens Rights and Estates For setling whereof and preventing the like in time to come Be it Ordained and Enacted by the Authority of this present Parliament Court of Star-Chamber and all its powers dissolved That the said Court commonly called the Star-Chamber and all Iurisdiction Power and Authority belonging unto or exercised in the same Court or by any the Iudges Officers or Ministers thereof be from the first day of August in the year of our Lord God One thousand six hundred forty and one clearly and absolutely dissolved taken away and determined and that from the said first day of August neither the Lord Chancellor or Kéeper of the Great Seal of England the Lord Treasurer of England the Kéeper of the Kings Privy-Seal or President of the Councel nor any Bishop Temporal Lord Privy-Councellor or Iudg or Iustice whatsoever shall have any power or authority to hear examine or determine any matter or thing whatsoever in the said Court commonly called the Star-Chamber or to make pronounce or deliver any Iudgment Sentence Order or Decrée or to do any Iudicial or Ministerial Act in the said Court And that all and every Act and Acts of Parliament and all and every Article clause and sentence in them and every of them by which any Iurisdiction power or Authority is given limited or appointed unto the said Court commonly called the Star-Chamber or unto all or any the Iudges Officers or Ministers thereof or for any procéedings to be had or made in the said Court or for any matter or thing to be drawn into question examined or determined there shall for so much as concerneth the said Court of Star-Chamber and the power and authority thereby given unto it be from the said first day of August repealed and absolutely revoked and made void And be it likewise Enacted Like Iurisdiction in several other Courts repealed and taken away That the like Iurisdiction now used and exercised in the Court before the President and Councel in the Marches of Wales and also in the Court before the President and Councel established in the Northern parts And also in the Court commonly called the Court of the Dutchy of Lancaster held before the Chancellor and Councel of that Court And also in the Court of Exchequer of the County Palatine of Chester held before the Chamberlain and Councel of that Court The like Iurisdiction being exercised there shall from the said first day of August One thousand six hundred forty and one be also repealed and absolutely revoked and made void any Law prescription custome or usage Or the said Statute made in the third year of King Henry the seventh Or the Statute made the One and twentieth of Henry the Eigth Or any Act or Acts of Parliament heretofore had or made to the contrary thereof in any wise notwithstanding And that from henceforth no Court Councel No Court or Councel to have the like Iurisdiction or place of Iudicature shall be erected ordained constituted or appointed within this Realm of England or Dominion of Wales which shall have use or exercise the same or the like Iurisdiction as is or hath béen used practised or exercised in the said Court of Star-Chamber Be it likewise declared and Enacted by Authority of this present Parliament The King nor his privy Councel shall have no Iurisdiction over any mans estate That neither his Majesty nor his Privy-Councel have or ought to have any Iurisdiction power or authority by English Bill Petition Articles Libel or any other Arbitrary way whatsoever to examine or draw into question determine or dispose of the Lands Tenements Hereditaments Goods or Chattels of any the Subjects of this Kingdome But that the same ought to be tryed and determined in the ordinary Courts of Iustice and by the ordinary course of the Law And be it further provided and Enacted That if any Lord Chancellor Penalties upon great Officers and others for the first offence or Kéeper of the Great Seal of England Lord Treasurer Kéeper of the Kings Privy Seal President of the Councel Bishop Temporal Lord Privy Councellor Iudg or Iustice whatsoever shall offend or do
Majesty his Heirs or Successors And all Powers and Authorities Granted or pretended or mentioned to be Granted thereby and all Acts Sentences and Decrées to be made by vertue or colour thereof shall be utterly void and of none effect CAP. XII A Subsidy Granted to the King of Tunnage and Poundage Tunnage and Poundage and other sums of Money payable upon Merchandize Exported and Imported from the 15th of July 1641. to the 10th of August next EXP. CAP. XIII Such Monies secured as are or shall be due to the Inhabitants of the County of York and the other adjoyning Counties for the Billet of the Souldiers and to certain Officers of the Army who forbear part of their pay according to an Order in that behalf made in the Commons House of Parliament this present Session for such part of their pay as they shall so forbear EXP. CAP. XIV The late Preceedings touching Ship-money declared unlawful and all Records and Process concerning the same made void Shipâ—rits VVHereas divers Writs of late time issued under the Great Seal of England commonly called Ship-Writs for the charging of the Ports Towns Cities Burroughs and Counties of this Realm respectively Certioraries to provide and furnish certain Ships for his Majesties service Mittimus And whereas upon the Execution of the same Writs and Returns of Certioraries thereupon made and the sending the same by Mittimus into the Court of Exchequer Process hath béen thence made against sundry persons pretended to be charged by way of Contribution for the making up of certain sums assessed for the providing of the said Ships and in especial in Easter Term Scire facias against John Hampden Esquire Demurrer in the thirtéenth year of the Reign of our Soveraign Lord the King that now is a Writ of Scire facias was awarded out of the Court of Exchequer to the then Sheriff of Buckingham-Shire against John Hampden Esquire to appear and shew cause why he should not be charged with a certain sum so assessed upon him upon whose appearance and demurrer to the procéedings therein the Barons of the Exchequer adjourned the same case into the Exchequer-Chamber where it was solemnly argued divers dayes and at length it was there agréed by the greater part of all the Iustices of the Courts of Kings Bench and Common Pleas and of the Barons of the Exchequer there assembled That the said John Hampden should be charged with the said sum so as aforesaid assessed on him The main grounds and reasons of the said Iustices and Barons which so agréed being that when the good and safety of the Kingdom in general is concerned and the whole Kingdom in danger the King might by Writ under the Great Seal of England command all the Subjects of this His Kingdome at their charge to provide and furnish such manner of Ships with Men Victuals and Munition and for such time as the King should think fit for the defence and safeguard of the Kingdom from such danger and peril and that by Law the King might compel the doing thereof in case of refusal or refractorinses and that the King is the sole Iudg both of the danger and when and how the same is to be prevented and avoided according to which grounds and reasons all the Iustices of the said Courts of Kings Bench and Common Pleas and the said Barons of the Exchequer having béen formerly consulted with by his Maiesties command Extrajudicial Opinion had set their hands to an extraiudicial opinion expressed to the same purpose which Opinion with their names thereunto was also by his Majesties command inrolled in the Courts of Chancery Kings Bench Common Pleas and Exchequer and likewise entred among the Remembrances of the Court of Star-Chamber Iudgment and according to the said agréement of the said Iustices and Barons Iudgment was given by the Barons of the Exchequer That the said John Hampden should be charged with the said sum so assessed on him And whereas some other Actions and Proces depend and have depended in the said Court of Exchequer and in some other Courts against other persons for the like kind of charge grounded upon the said Writs commonly called Shipwrits all which Writs and procéedings as aforesaid were utterly against the Law of the Land Shipmoney proceedings thereupon contrary to Law Be it therefore declared and Enacted by the Kings most excellent Majesty and the Lords and Commons in this present Parliament assembled and by the Authority of the same That the said charge imposed upon the Subject for the providing and furnishing of Ships commonly called Ship-money and the said extrajudicial opinion of the said Iustices and Barons and the said Writs and every of them and the said agréement or opinion of the greater part of the said Iustices and Barons and the said judgment given against the said John Hampden were and are contrary to and against the Laws and Statutes of this Realm the right of property the liberty of the Subjects former resolutions in Parliament and the Petition of Right made in the third year of the Reign of his Maiesty that now is St. 3 Car. 1. Petition of right to be observed And it is further declared and Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That all and every the particulars prayed or desired in the said Petition of Right shall from henceforth be put in execution accordingly and shall be firmly and strictly holden and observed as in the same Petition they are prayed and expressed and that all and every the Records and remembrances of all and every the Iudgment Iudgments proceedings touching ship-money and all entries records inrolments thereof made void Inrolments Entry and procéedings as aforesaid and all and every the procéedings whatsoever upon or by pretext or colour of any of the said Writs commonly called Ship-Writs and all and every the Dependents on any of them shall be Déemed and Adiudged to all intents constructions and purposes to be utterly void and disannulled and that all and every the said Iudgment Inrolments Entries Procéedings and Dependents of what kind soever shall be vacated and cancelled in such manner and forme as Records use to be that are vacated CAP. XV. Touching Incroachments and Oppressions in the Stannary Courts WHereas King EDWARD the first of famous memory did for the Amendment of the Stannaries in the County of Devon E. 1. Charter grant divers Franchises and Liberties to the Tinners there And whereas in the Parliament in the fiftieth year of King EDWARD the third upon the petition of the Commons of the County of Devon certain Branches and Articles of the said Charter were explained in manner following That is to say whereas one Article of the said Charter is in these words following Explained 50 E. 3. viz. Sciatis nos ad emendationem Stannariarum nostrarum in Com. Devon ad tranquilitatem utilitatem Stannatorum nostrorum praedictorum earundem Concessisse pro nobis haeredibus
by which the Meets Meers Limits or Bounds of the said Forrests or any of them are or are pretended to be further extended then as aforesaid And also all and every Presentment of any person or persons at any Iustice seat Swainemote or Court of Attachments for or by reason or by colour of any Act or Acts whatsoever done or committed in any place without or beyond the said Méets Méers Limits or Bounds respectively so commonly known reputed used or taken as aforesaid and all and every Fine and Fines and amerciament and amerciaments upon by reason or colour of any such Presentment or Presentments shall from henceforth be adjudged déemed and taken to be utterly void and of no force or effect any Law Statute Record or pretence whatsoever to the contrary notwithstanding And be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid No place where no Iustice seat Swainemote cour◠or attachment c. hath been within 〈◊〉 yeares shall be accompted Forrest That no place or places within this Realm of England or Dominion of Wales where no such Iustice seat Swainemote or Court of Attachment have been held or kept or where no Verderers have been chosen or regard made within the space of sixty years next before the first year of his Majesties Reign that now is shall be at any time hereafter judged déemed or taken to be Forrest or within the Bounds or Meets of the Forrests But the same shall be from thenceforth for ever hereafter De-afforrested and freed and exempted from the Forrests Laws Any Iustice-seat Swainemote or Court of Attachment held or kept within or for any such place or places at any time or times since the beginning of His Majesties said Reign or any presentment enquiry Act or thing heretofore made or hereafter to be made or done to the contrary notwithstanding Provided also and be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid For ascertaining of Meets c. Commissions shall be issued That for the better putting into certainty all and every the Meets Meers Bounds and Limits of all and every the Forrests as aforesaid The Lord-Chancellour or Lord-Keeper of the Great Seal of England for the time being shall by vertue of this Act upon request of any of the Peers of this Kingdome or of the Knights and Burgesses of the Parliament or any of them grant severall Commissions under the Great Seal of England to Commissioners to be nominated respectively by the said Péers Knights and Burgesses or any of them to enquire of and find out by Inquests of good and lawful men upon Oath and by the Oaths of Witnesses to be produced at the said Inquests and by all other lawful means all and every the Méers Méets Bounds and Limits of the Forrests respectively which were commonly known to be their Méers Meets Bounds and Limits respectively in the said twentieth year of the Reign of our late Soveraign Lord King James And to return the Inquests so taken into the Court of Chancery and that all and every the Sheriffs and Bailiffs of and in every County wherein any such Inquests shall be so to be taken And all and every the Verderers Forresters Rangers and other Officers of the Forrests respectively where any such Officers be shall be assistant and attendant to the execution of the said Commissions according as by vertue of the said Commissions respectively they shall be commanded And where no such Officers are or where such Officers be if they or any of them shall refuse or neglect such assistance and attendance as aforesaid Then the said Commissioners shall and may procéed without them in the execution of the said Commissions Forrests shall not extend beyond the meets c. so returned And be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That the Forrests whereof the Méets Méers Limits and Bounds be so returned and certified by vertue of any the said Commissions as aforesaid from thenceforth shall not extend nor be extended nor be déemed adjudged or taken to extend any further in any wise then the Méets Méers Limits and Bounds that shall be so returned and certified And that all the places and Territories that shall be without the Méets Méers Limits and Bounds so returned and certified shall be and are hereby declared to be from thenceforth free to all intents and purposes as if the same had never béen Forrest or so reputed Any Act or Acts matter or thing whatsoever to the contrary thereof notwithstanding Grounds deafforrested shall be excluded Provided and be it further Enacted by Authority aforesaid That all and every the grounds Territories or places which have béen or are De-afforrested or mentioned to be De-afforrested in or by any Letters Patents Charters or otherwise since the said twentieth year of the Reign of our said late Soveraign Lord King James shall be excluded and left out of the Méets Méers Limits and Bounds of the Forrests which are to be enquired of returned and certified by vertue of the said Commissions or any of them respectively And shall be and hereby are declared and Enacted to be utterly De-afforrested frée and exempt to all intents and purposes as if the same had never béen at all Forrest or so reputed Any thing in this present Act contained or any other Act matter or thing whatsoever to the contrary in any wise notwithstanding Tenants Owners c. of lands excluded shall enjoy their ancient commission c. Provided nevertheless and be it Enacted That the Tenants Owners and Occupiers and every of them of Lands and Tenements which shall be excluded and left out of the Méets Méers Limits or Bounds of the Forrests to be returned and certified by vertue of any the said Commissions shall or may use and enjoy such Common and other profits and easements within the Forrest as anciently or accustomably they have used and enjoyed Any thing in this present Act contained or any Act or Ordinance made in the thrée and thirtieth year of King Edward the first or any Custome or Law of the Forrest or any other matter or thing to the contrary thereof notwithstanding CAP. XVII Scotland A confirmation of the Treaty of Pacification between England and Scotland with the Commissions and Articles thereupon EXP. CAP. XVIII For securing by publick Faith the remainder of the friendly assistance and relief promised to those of Scotland Scotland EXP. CAP. XIX The Office of Clerk the Market allowed and regulated for the reformation of Weights and Measures Grievances by Clerks of the Market and anequality in weights and measures FOrasmuch as the undue execution of the Office of Clerk of the Market hath béen very grievous unto divers of his Majesties most loving Subjects who have béen much troubled by unnecessary Summons and charged with exactions of divers sums of Money by colour of the said Office and in regard the said evils have partly arisen by means of an inequality of Weights and Measures throughout this Kingdom◠and by granting
Protection or Wager of Law shall be allowed And be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That for every Ship or Vessel which from and after the Five and twentieth day of December Ships of England Ireland or Wales Sailing to any English plantation of America Asia or Africa shall be bound with sureties to bring goods there loaded into England c. in the year of our Lord one thousand six hundred and fifty shall set sail out of or from England Ireland Wales or Town of Berwick upon Tweed for any English Plantation in America Asia or Africa sufficient bond shall be given with one surety to the chief Officers of the Custom-house of such Port or place from whence the said Ship shall set sail to the value of one thousand pounds if the ship be of less burthen then one hundred Tuns and of the sum of two thousand pounds if the Ship shall be of greater burthen That in case the said ship or vessel shal load any of the said Commodities at any of the said English plantations that the same Commodities shall be by the said ship brought to some Port of England Ireland Wales or to the Port or Town of Berwick upon Tweed and shall there unload and put on shore the same the danger of the Seas only excepted And for all ships coming from any other Port or Place to any of the aforesaid plantations who by this Act are permitted to trade there that the Governor of such English plantations shall before the said ship or Vessel be permitted to load on board any of the said Commodities take Bond in manner and to the value aforesaid for each respective Ship or Vessel That such Ship or Vessel shall carry all the aforesaid Goods that be laden on board in the said ship to some other of His Majesties English Plantations or to England Ships coming from other places to any of those plantations Ireland Wales or Town of Berwick upon Tweed And that every ship or Vessel which shall load or take on board any of the aforesaid Goods untill such Bond given to the said Governor or Certificate produced from the Officers of any Custom-house of England Ireland Wales or of the Town of Berwick that such bonds have béen there â—â—ly given shall be forefeited with all her Guns Tackle Apparel and Furniture to be imployed and recovered in the manner as aforesaid And the said Governors and every of them shall twice in every year after the First day of January The respective Governors to return the bonds taken twice yearly to the chief offices of the custom in London One thousand six hundred and sixty return true Copies of all such Bonds by him so taken to the chief Officers of the Customs in London St. 13. Car. 2. cap. 14. CAP. XIX For preventing Frauds and concealments of Customs and Subsidies BE it Enacted by the Kings most Excellent Majesty by and with the advice and consent of the Lords and Commons in this present Parliament assembled That if any person or persons at any time after the first day of September One thousand six hundred and sixty Persons which shall convey away any goods without entry agreement for the custome shall cause any Goods for which Custom Subsidy or other Duties are due or payable by vertue of the Act passed this Parliament Entituled A Subsidy Granted to the King of Tunnage and Poundage and other sums of money payable upon Merchandize Exported and Imported to be landed or conveyed away without due entry thereof first made and the Customer or Collector or his Deputy agréed with That then and in such case upon Oath thereof made before the Lord Treasurer or any of the Barons of the Exchequer or chief Magistrate of the Port or place where the offence shall be committed or the place next adjoyning thereunto The penalty it shall be lawful to and for the Lord Treasurer or any of the Barons aforesaid or chief Magistrate of the Port or place where the offence shall be committed or the place next adjoyning thereunto to issue out a Warrant to any person or persons thereby enabling him or them with the assistance of a Sheriff Iustice of Peace or Constable to enter into any house in the day time where such Goods are suspected to be concealed and in case of resistance to break open such houses and to seize and secure the same goods so concealed And all Officers and Ministers of Iustice are hereby required to be aiding and assisting thereunto Provided alwayes That no house shall be entred by vertue of this Act No proceeding against any upon this Act unless within one month after the offence committed The continuance of this Act. Damages and costs against false informers unless it be within the space of one Moneth after the offence supposed to be committed Provided also That this Act shall continue in force unto the end of the first Session of the next Parliament and no longer Provided also That if the Information whereupon any house shall come to be searched shall prove to be false that then and in such case the party injured shall recover his full damages and costs against the Informer by Action of Trespass to be therefore brought against such Informer St. 13 Car. 2. cap. 7. CAP. XX. For raising Sevenscore thousand pounds for the compleat Disbanding of the whole Army and paying off some part of the Navy by a two Moneths Assesment of 70000 l. per mensem beginning from the first of November 1660. EXP. Stat. 13 Car. 2. cap. 6. CAP. XXI An Act for the speedy raising of Seventy thousand pounds for the present supply of His Majesty EXP. Stat. 13 Car. 2. cap. 6. cap. 10. CAP. XXII Bay-making in the Dutch Bay-Hall in Colchester regulated CAP. XXIII Certain Impositions upon Beer Ale and other Liquors For the Encrease of His Majesties Revenue during His Life THe Commons assembled in Parliament in gratitude for an humble acknowledgment of Your Majesties great Grace and Favour to us Your Commons beyond Example of any Your Royal Progenitors expressed in many publick Acts and Declarations to the great rejoycing and general satisfaction of all Your people The raâ—es given to his Majesty for life which they desire to answer with returns suitable and excéeding the Examples of any of their Ancestors for the encreasing of your Maiesties Revenue during Your Maiesties Reign which God long continue Do therefore give and grant unto your most Excellent Majesty the Rates and Duties Impositions Charges and sums of Money herein after following And do beséech your Majesty that it may be Enacted And be it Enacted by the Kings most Excellent Maiesty by and with the advice and consent of the Lords and Commons in Parliament Assembled That from and after the twenty fifth day of December One thousand six hundred and sixty there shall be throughout your Maiesties Kingdom of England Dominion of Wales and Town of Berwick upon Tweed
on the one part and the person or persons farming on the other part shall be good and effectual in Law to all intents and purposes Provided alwayes to the end the aforesaid duty may be paid with most ease to the people It is hereby further Enacted Persons contracting that be nominated by the Iustice of the Peace in every County shall have the refusal of any Farm That the Lord Treasurer Commissioners of the Treasury or other persons aforesaid shall not within six moneths after the Commencement of this Act treat conclude or agrée with any person or persons touching the Farming of this duty upon Béer and Ale in any the respective Counties or Places of this Realm or Dominions thereof other then with such person or persons as by the Iustices of Peace of the said Counties or places or the major part of them at their publick Quarter Sessions shall be nominated and appointed in that behalf which person or persons is to have the first refusal of any such Farm respectively and may take the same Any thing in this Act to the contrary thereof in any wise notwithstanding Provided that the said duty shall not be let to any other person or persons then to the person or persons recommended by the Iustices under the rate that it shall be tendred to and refused by such person or persons so recommended Forfeitures offences within this Act where determined And be it further Enacted and Ordained by the Authority aforesaid That all forfeitures and offences made done and committed against this Act or any clause or article therein contained shall be heard adjudged and determined by such person or persons and in such manner and form as hereafter in and by this Act is directed and appointed that is to say all such forfeitures and offences made and committed within the immediate limits of the chief Office in London shall be heard adjudged and determined by the said chief Commissioners and Governors of Excise appointed by His Majesty or the major part of them or by the Commissioners for Appeals and regulating of this duty or the major part of them in case of Appeal and not otherwise And all such forfeitures and offences made and committed within all or any other the Counties Cities Towns or Places within this Kingdom or Dominions thereof shall be heard and determined by any two or more of the Iustices of the Peace residing near to the place where such forfeitures shall be made or offence committed And in case of neglect or refusal of such Iustices of the Peace by the space of 14 dayes next after complaint made and notice thereof given to the Offender then the Sub-Commissioners or the major part of them appointed for any such City County Town or Place shall and are hereby impowered to hear and determine the same And if the party find himself aggrieved by the Iudgment given by the said Sub-Commissioners Appeals by parties grieved he shall and may appeal to the Iustices of the Peace at the next Quarter Sessions who are hereby impowered and authorised to hear and determine the same whose Iudgment therein shall be final which said Commissioners for Appeals and regulating of this duty and the chief Commissioners for Excise and all Iustices of Peace and Sub-Commissioners aforesaid respectively are hereby authorised and strictly enjoyned and required upon any complaint or information exhibited and brought of any such forfeiture made or offence committed contrary to this Act to summon the party accused and upon his appearance or contempt to procéed to the examination of the matter of Fact and upon due proof made thereof either by the voluntary confession of the party or by the oath of one or more credible witnesses which Oath they or any two or more of them have hereby power to administer to give Iudgment or Sentence according as in and by this Act is before ordained and directed And to award and issue out Warrants under their hands for the levying of such forfeitures penalties and fines as by this Act is imposed for any such offence committed upon the Goods and Chattels of the Offender and to cause Sale to be made of the said Goods and Chattels if they shall not be redéemed within fourtéen days rendring to the party the overplus if any be and for want of sufficient Distress to imprison the party offending till satisfaction be made Provided nevertheless That it shall and may be lawful Fines and forfeitures may be mitigated to and for the said respective Iustices of Peace Commissioners for Excise or any two of them or their Sub-Commissioners respectively from time to time where they shall sée cause to mitigate compound or lessen such forfeiture penalty or fine as in their discretion they shall think fit And that every such mitigation and payment thereupon accordingly made shall be a sufficient discharge of the said penalties and forfeitures to the persons so offending so as by such mitigation the same be not made less than double the value of the duty of Excise which should or ought to have béen paid besides the reasonable costs and charges of such Officer or Officers or others as were imployed therein to be to them allowed by the said Iustices any thing in this Act to the contrary in any wise notwithstanding And it is hereby further Enacted and Ordained That all Fines How the fines and forfeitures shall be imployed Forfeitures and Penalties mentioned in this Act all necessary charges for the recovery thereof being first deducted shall be imployed thrée fourth parts thereof to and for the use of the Kings Majesty and the other 4th part to the Discoverer or Informer of the same And for the better managing collecting securing levying and recovering of all and every the said rates and charges of Excise hereby imposed and set upon all or any of the Commodities before mentioned to the end the same may be paid and disposed of according to the intent of this present Act Be it further Enacted and Ordained by the authority aforesaid and it is hereby Enacted That one principal Head-Office shall be erected and continued in the City of London or within ten miles thereof from time to time as long as his Majesty shall think fit for this duty unto which all other Offices for the same within England and Wales and the Town and Port of Berwick shall be subordinate and accomptable Which said Office shall be managed by such Officers as shall be appointed by the Kings Majesty as aforesaid who or any two of them Commissioners and Governors for managing the Receipts of Excise are hereby appointed and constituted Commissioners and Governours for the management of His Majesties Receipt of the Excise and to sit in some convenient place in the City of London or within ten miles thereof from time to time as long as his Majesty shall think fit And be it Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That no person or persons shall be capable of
offending till satisfaction be made Power to mitigate the forfeitures Provided nevertheless That it shall and may be lawful to and for the said respective Iustices of Peace Commissioners for Excise or any two of them or their Sub-Commissioners respectively from time to time where they shall sée cause to mitigate compound or lessen such forfeiture penalty or fine as in their discretion they shall think fit And that every such mitigation and payment thereupon accordingly made shall be a sufficient discharge of the said penalties and forfeitures to the persons so offending so as by such mitigation the same be not made less than double the value of the duty of Excise which should or ought to have béen paid besides the reasonable costs and charges of such Officer or Officers or others as were imployed therein to be to them allowed by the said Iustices any thing in this Act to the contrary in any wise notwithstanding How the forfeitures shall be imployed And it is hereby further Enacted and Ordained That all Fines Forfeitures and Penalties mentioned in this Act all necessary charges for the recovery thereof being first deducted shall be imployed thrée fourth parts thereof to and for the use of the Kings Majesty and one fourth part to the Discoverer or Informer of the same And for the better managing collecting securing levying and recovering of all and every the said rates and charges of Excise hereby imposed and set upon all or any of the Commodities before mentioned One principal Office of Excise erected in London to the end the same may be paid and disposed of according to the intent of this present Act Be it further Enacted and Ordained by the authority aforesaid and it is hereby Enacted That one principal Head-Office shall be erected and continued in the City of London or within ten miles thereof from time to time as long as his Majesty shall think fit for this duty unto which all other Offices for the same within England and Wales and the Town and Port of Berwick shall be subordinate and accomptable Which said Office shall be managed by such Officers as shall be appointed by the Kings Majesty as aforesaid who or any two of them are hereby appointed and constituted Commissioners and Governours for the management of His Majesties Receipt of the Excise and to sit in some convenient place in the City of London or within ten miles thereof from time to time as long as his Majesty shall think fit And be it Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That no person or persons shall be capable of intermedling with any Office or Imployment relating to the Excise until he or they shall before two or more Iustices of Peace in the County where his or their imployments shall be or before one of the Barons of the Exchequer take the Oaths of Allegiance and Supremacy which Oaths they have hereby power to Administer together with this Oath following Mutatis Mutandis The Oath YOU shall swear to execute the Office of _____ truly and faithfully without Favour or Affection and shall from time to time true Accompt make and deliver to such person and persons as His Majesty shall appoint to receive the same and shall take no Fee or Reward for the Execution of the said Office from any other person than from His Maiesty or those whom His Majesty shall appoint in that behalf London Westminster c. to be under the management of the chief Office And be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That every such Iustice of Peace shall certify the taking of such Oath to the next Quarter-Sessions there to be Recorded And it is further Enacted That all parts of the Cities of London and Westminster with the Burrough of Southwark and the several Suburbs thereof and Parishes within the wéekly Bills of Mortality shal be under the immediate care inspection and management of the said Head-Office and such and so many subordinate Commissioners All Commissioners c. to be nominated by his Maiesty and Sub-Commissioners and other Officers and Ministers for the Execution of the Premisses shall be from time to time nominated and appointed by His Maiesty his Heirs and Successors in all and every other the Counties Cities Towns and Places within this Kingdom of England Dominion of Wales and Port of Berwick as from time to time his Majesty his Heirs and Successors shall think fit And it is hereby further Enacted That the said Office of Excise in all places where it shall be appointed shall be kept open from eight of the Clock in the morning Times in which the Office shall be kept open till twelve of the Clock at noon and from two of the Clock in the Afternoon till five of the Clock in the Afternoon for the due execution and performance of all and every the matters and things in this Act appointed and required And it is further hereby Enacted That the said Chief Commissioners of Excise or the major part of them shall from time to time issue forth and pay such sum and sums of money as shall from time to time be received collected or levyed by vertue of this Act into his Majesties Receipt of Exchequer The general â—â—â—ue pleadable in any action upon this Statute Provided alwayes and be it Enacted That if any person or persons shall at any time be sued or prosecuted for any thing by him or them done or executed in pursuance of this Act he or they shall and may plead the general issue and give this Act in evidence for his defence and if upon the Tryal a Verdict shall pass for the Defendant or Defendants or the Plaintiff or Plaintiffs be Non-suit then such Defendant or Defendants shall have double costs to him or them awarded against such Plaintiff or Plaintiffs Writs of Certiorari no supersedeas Provided also and be it Enacted That no Writ or Writs of Certiorari shall supersede Execution or other Procéedings upon any Order or Orders made by the Iustices aforesaid in pursuance of this Act but that Execution and other procéedings shall and may be had and made thereupon any such Writ or Writs or allowance thereof notwithstanding Proviso as to the Act of General pardon Provided That this Act or any thing therein contained shall not extend or be construed to extend in any matter to weaken or invalidate one Act of this present Parliament Entituled An Act of Free and General Pardon Indempnity and Oblivion but that every Clause Article Matter and thing therein mentioned and comprised shall notwithstanding this Act or any matter or thing therein remain good and valid and be of the same force vertue and effect as if this Act had never béen made Provided alwayes and be it further Enacted That this Act or any thing therein contained Proviso concerning Ed. Backwell shall not be prejudicial to Edward Backwell Alderman of London as to the sum of twenty eight thousand four hundred
Kingdom of England Dominion of Wales and Town of Berwick upon Tweed by retail for above Eightéen pence the quart And that no Gascoigne or French Wines whatsoever shall be sold by Retail above eight pence the quart And that no Rhenish Wines whatsoever shall be sold by retail above Twelve pence the quart And according to these rates The Penalties for a greater and lesser quantity all and every the said Wines shall and may be sold upon pain and penalty that every such person or persons who shall utter or sell any of the said Wines by retail that is to say by Pint Quart Pottle or Gallon or any other greater or lesser Retail-measure at any rate excéeding the Rates hereby limited do and shall forfeit for every such Pint Quart Pottle Gallon or other greater or lesser quantity so sold by retail the sum of Five pounds the one moyety of which forfeiture shall be to our Soveraign Lord the King His Heirs and Successors and the other moyety to him or them that shall sue for the same to be recovered in manner and form as aforesaid Provided nevertheless The Lord Chancellor c. may set the Prises of Wines yearly or alter the same That it shall and may be lawful to and for the Lord Chancellor of England Lord Treasurer Lord President of the Kings Councel Lord Privy Seal and the two Chief Iustices or Five Four or Thrée of them And they are hereby Authorized yearly and every year betwéen the twentieth of November and the last day of December and no other times to set the Prises of all and every the said Wines to be sold by retail as aforesaid at higher or lower rates then are herein contained so that they or any of them cause the Prises by them set to be written and open Proclamation thereof to be made in the Kings Court of Chancery yearly in the Term time or else in the City Burrough or Towns Corporate where any such Wine shall be sold And that all and every the said Wines shall and may be sold by retail at such prises as by them or any Five Four or thrée of them shall be set as aforesaid from time to time for the space of one whole year to commence from the first day of February next after the setting thereof and no longer and no greater prises under the pains and penalties aforesaid to be recovered as aforesaid and afterwards And in default of such setting of prises by the said Lord Chancellor of England Lord Treasurer Lord President of the Kings Councel Lord Privy Seal and the two Chief Iustices or Five Four or Thrée of them as aforesaid at the respective Rates and Prises set by this Act and under the penalties as aforesaid to be recovered as aforesaid Stat. 13 Car. 2. cap. 7. CAP. XXVI The levying of the Twelve Moneths Assessment commencing the 24th of June 1659. and the six Moneths Assessment commencing the Twenty Fifth of December 1659. EXP. Stat. 13 Car. 2. cap. 7. CAP. XXVII Four hundred and twenty thousand pounds by an Assessment of Threescore and ten Thousand pounds by the Moneth Granted for Six Moneths for Disbanding the Remainder of the Army and paying off the Navy with Rules and Instructions for the same EXP. Stat. 13 Car. 2. cap. 7. CAP. XXVIII Further supplying and explaining certain defects in an Act Intituled An Act for the provision of money for Disbanding and paying off the Forces of this Kingdom both by Land and Sea EXP. Stat. 13 Car. 2. cap. 7. CAP. XXIX Seventy thousand pounds to be raised for the further supply of His Majesty EXP. Stat. 13 Car. 2. cap. 7. CAP. XXX The Attainder of several persons Guilty of the Horrid Murther of His late Sacred Majesty King Charles the First IN all humble manner shew unto Your most Excellent Majesty Your Majesties most dutiful and loyal Subjectts the Lords and Commons in Parliament Assembled That the Horrid and Execrable Murther of Your Majesties Royal Father The horrid murder of King Charles the first how first contrived and plotted our late most Gracious Soveraign Charles the First of ever blessed and glorious memory hath béen committed by a party of wretched men desperately wicked and hardned in their Impiety who having first plotted and contrived the ruine and destruction of this excellent Monarchy and with it of the true Reformed Protestant Religion which had béen so long protected by it and flourished under it found it necessary in order to the carrying on of their pernicious and traiterous designs to throw down all the Bullwarks and Fences of Law and to subvert the very being and constitution of Parliament that so they might at last make their way open for any further attempts upon the Sacred Person of his Maiesty himself And that for the more easy effecting thereof they did first seduce some part of the then Army into a compliance and then kept the rest in subjection to them partly for hopes of preferment and chiefly for fear of losing their imployments and arrears untill by these and other more odious arts and devices they had fully strengthened themselves both in power and faction which being done they did declare against all manner of Treaties with the person of the King even then while a Treaty by advice of both Houses of Parliament was in being Remonstrate against the Houses of Parliament for such procéedings seize upon his Royal person while the Commissioners were returned to the House of Parliament with his Answer and when his Concessions had béen Voted a ground for peace seize upon the House of Commons seclude and imprison some Members force out others and there being left but a small remnant of their own Creatures not a tenth part of the whole did séek to shelter themselves by this weak pretence under the name and Authority of a Parliament and in that name laboured to prosecute what was yet behind and unfinished of their long intended Treason and Conspiracy To this purpose they prepared an Ordinance for erecting a prodigious and unheard of Triennal which they called An High Court of Justice for Tryal of his Majesty and having easily procured it to pass in their House of Commons as it then stood moulded ventured to send it up from thence to the Péers then sitting who totally rejected it whereupon their rage and fury increasing they presume to pass it alone as an Act of the Commons and in the name of the Commons of England and having gained the pretence of Law made by a power of their own making pursue it with all possible force and cruelty until at last upon the thirtieth day of January one thousand six hundred forty and eight His Sacred Majesty was brought unto a Scaffold and there publickly Murthered before the Gates of his own Royal Palace And because by this Horrid action the Protestant Religion hath received the greatest wound and reproach and the people of England the most insupportable shame and infamy that was
possible for the enemies of God and the King to bring upon us whilst the Fanatick Rage of a few Miscreants who were as far from being true Protestants as they were from being true Subjects stands imputed by our Adversaries to the whole Nation We therefore your Majesties said dutiful and Loyal Subjects the Lords and Commons in Parliament Assembled do hereby renounce abominate and protest against that Impious fact the execrable Murther and most unparallel'd Treason committed against the Sacred person and life of our said late Soveraign Your Maiesties most Royal Father and all procéedings tending thereunto and do beséech Your most Excellent Majesty that it may be declared That by the undoubted and Fundamental Laws of this Kingdom neither the Péers of this Realm nor the Commons nor both together in Parliament nor the people collectively or representatively nor any other persons whatsoever ever had have hath or ought to have any Coercive power over the persons of the Kings of this Realm And for the better vindication of our selves to posterity and as a lasting Monument of our otherwise inexpressible detestation and abhorrency of this villanous and abominable Fact We do further beséech Your most Excellent Majesty that it may be Enacted And be it hereby Enacted by the Kings most Excellent Majesty A yearly Anniversary of Humiliation on the â—0th of Ian. for ever by and with the advice and consent of the Lords and Commons in this present Parliament Assembled That every thirtieth day of January unless it falls out to be upon the Lords day and then the day next following shall be for ever hereafter set apart to be kept and observed in all the Churches and Chappels of these Your Majesties Kingdoms of England and Ireland Dominion of Wales and Town of Berwick upon Tweed and the Isles of Jersey and Guernsey and all other Your Majesties Dominions as an Anniversary day of Fasting and Humiliation to implore the Mercy of God that neither the guilt of that Sacred and Innocent Blood nor those other sins by which God was provoked to deliver up both us and our King into the hands of cruel and unreasonable men The attainder of the persons actively instrumental in the Murther of his late Majesty may at any time hereafter be visited upon us or our posterity And whereas Oliver Cromwel deceased Henry Ireton deceased John Bradshaw deceased and Thomas Pride deceased John Lisle William Say Sir Hardress Waller Valentine Wauton Thomas Harrison Edward Whalley William Heveningham Isaac Penington Henry Martin John Barkstead Gilbert Millington Edmund Ludlow Sir Michael Livesey Robert Titchbourn Owen Row Robert Lilburn Adrian Scroop John Okey John Hewson William Goffe Cornelius Holland Thomas Challoner John Carew John Jones Miles Corbet Henry Smith Gregory Clement Thomas Wogan Edmond Harvy Thomas Scot William Cawley John Downs Nicholas Love Vincent Potter Augustine Garland John Dixwel George Fleetwood Simon Meyne James Temple Peter Temple Daniel Blagrave Thomas Wayte John Cook Andrew Broughton Edward Dendy William Hewlet Hugh Peters Francis Hacker Daniel Axtel are notoriously known to have béen wicked and active Instruments in the prosecution and compassing that Trayterous Murther of his late Majesty for which the said Sir Hardress Waller Thomas Harrison William Heveningham Isaac Penington Henry Martin The names of the persons cryed and legally attainted Gilbert Millington Robert Titchbourn Owen Row Robert Lilbourn Adrian Scroop John Carew John Jones Henry Smith Gregory Clement Edmond Harvy Thomas Scot John Downs Vincent Potter Augustine Garland George Fleetwood Simon Meyne James Temple Peter Temple Thomas Wayte John Cook William Hewlet Hugh Peters Francis Hacker and Daniel Axtel have already received their Tryal at Law and by Verdict or their own Confession have béen convicted and by Iudgment of Law thereupon had do now stand duly and legally attainted of whom ten persons that is to say Thomas Harrison Adrian Scroop John Carew John Jones Thomas Scot The ten persons executed Gregory Clement John Cook Hugh Peters Francis Hacker and Daniel Axtel have most deservedly suffered the pains of death and béen executed according to Law and the said John Lisle The persons fled William Say Valentine Wauton Edward Whalley John Barkstead Edmond Ludlow Sir Michael Livesey John Okey John Hewson William Goffe Cornelius Holland Thomas Challoner Miles Corbet William Cawley Nicholas Love John Dixwell Daniel Blagrave Andrew Broughton and Edward Dendy are fled from Iustice not daring to abide a Legal Tryal May it therefore please your Majesty that it may be Enacted And be it Enacted by the Authority of this present Parliament The persons dead before they could be brought to tryal attainted The persons fled attainted That the said Oliver Cromwell deceased Henry Ireton deceased John Bradshaw deceased and Thomas Pride deceased shall by vertue of this Act be adjudged to be Convicted and Attainted of High Treason to all intents and purposes as if they and every of them respectively had béen Attainted in their lives And also that John Lisle William Say Valentine Wanton Edward Whalley John Barkstead Edmond Ludlow Sir Michael Livesey John Okey John Hewson William Goffe Cornelius Holland Thomas Challoner William Cawley Miles Corbet Nicholas Love John Dixwell Daniel Blagrave Andrew Broughton Edward Dendy and every of them stand and be adjudged and by Authority of this present Act Convicted and Attainted of High Treason Their Lands Tenements c. forfeited vested in his Majesty And that all and every the Manors Messuages Lands Tenements Rents Reversions Remainders Possessions Rights Conditions Interests Offices Fées Annuities and all other the Hereditaments Leases for years Chastels real and other things of that nature whatsoever they be of them the said Oliver Cromwell Henry Ireton John Bradshaw Thomas Pride John Lisle William Say Valentine Wauton Edward Whalley John Barkstead Edmond Ludlow Sir Michael Livesey John Okey John Hewson William Goffe Cornelius Holland Thomas Challoner William Cawley Miles Corbet Nicholas Love John Dixwell Daniel Blagrave Andrew Broughton Edward Dendy Thomas Harrison Adrian Scroop John Carew John Jones Thomas Scot Gregory Clement Hugh Peters Francis Hacker John Cook Daniel Axtel Sir Hardress Waller William Heveningham Isaac Penington Henry Martin Gilbert Millington Robert Titchbourn Owen Row Robert Lilbourn Henry Smith Edmond Harvey John Downs Vincent Potter Augustine Garland George Fleetwood Simon Meyne James Temple Peter Temple Thomas Wayte which they or any of them or any other person or persons to their or any of their uses or in trust for them or any of them had the Five and twentieth day of March Whereof they were seised or any for them 25 March 1646. in the year of our Lord One thousand six hundred forty and six or at any time since shall stand and be forfeited unto Your Majesty Your Heirs and Successors and shall be déemed vested and adjudged to be in the actual and real possession of your Majesty without any Office or Inquisition thereof hereafter to be taken or found And also
in Parliament in the Twelfth year of His Majesties Reign Entituled An Act for taking away the Court of Wards and Liveries and Tenures in Capite and by Knights Service and Purveyance and for setling a Revenue upon His Majesty in lieu thereof It was amongst other Things Enacted for the Reasons and Recompence therein expressed That from thenceforth no person or persons by any Warrant Commission or Authority under the Great Seal or otherwise by colour of buying or making Provision or Purveyance for his Majesty or any Quéen of England for the time being or of any the Children of any King or Quéen of England that shall be or for his their or any of their Houshold shall take any Cart Carriage or other thing whatsoever of any of the Subjects of His Majesty his Heirs or Successors without the frée and full consent of the Owner or Owners thereof had and obtained without Menace or enforcement nor shall summon warn take use or require any the said Subjects to furnish or find any Horses Oxen or other Cattel Carts Ploughs Wayns or other Carriages for the use of his Majesty his Heirs or Successors or of any Quéen of England or of any Child or Children of any the Kings or Quéens of England for the time being for the Carrying the Goods of his Majesty his Heirs or Successors or the said Quéens or Children or any of them without such full and frée consent as aforesaid any Law Statute Custome or Vsage to the contrary notwithstanding which Act may prove very prejudicial and inconvenient to the Kings Majesty in his Royal Progresses upon his necessary occasions to several parts of this Realm in case any person or persons shall obstinately refuse voluntarily to provide sufficient Carriages for Royal service at ordinary and usual Rates for such Carriages as are paid by others of his Subjects in such places contrary to the true intent and meaning of the said Act. Clerk or chief Officer of his Majâ—sties carriages by Warrant from the Green-cloath to provide Carts c. for his Majesties use Be it therefore Enacted by the Kings most Excellent Majesty by and with the advice and consent of the Lords and Commons in this present Parliament assembled That the Clark or chief Officer of his Majesties Carriages shall thrée dayes at least before his Majesties Arrival by Warrant from the Gréen cloth give notice in writing to two or more of his Majesties Iustices of the Peace next adjoyning to provide such a number of Carts and Carriages from the places next adjacent as His Majesty shall have present use of expressing the certainty of that number as also the time and place when and where the said Carts and Carriages are to attend which Carriages shall consist of four able Horses or six Oxen or four Oxen and two Horses for each of which Cart or Carriage Penalty for refusing to furnish his Majesty the respective Owners shall receive six pence for each Mile they shall go laden And that in case any of his Majesties Subjects of this Realm shall refuse to provide and furnish His Majesty that now is or His Quéen that shall be or His or Her Houshold in their Progress or removals with such sufficient and necessary carriages for their Wardrobe and other necessaries for ready monies tendred to them or shall without just and reasonable cause refuse to make their appearance with such sufficient Carts and Carrâ—â—ges as are before exprest that then upon due proof and conviction of such neglect and refusal by the Oath of the Constable or other Officer or two other credible Witnesses before the said Iustices of the Peace of the County or Mayor or other chief Officer of the City or Corporation where he or they inhabit which Oath they shall have power to administer the party so refusing shall for such his refusal and neglect forfeit the sum of Forty shillings to the King's use to be forthwith levied by distress and sale of his Goods and Chattels rendring to the parties the overplus upon every such sale if there shall be any by Warrant from the said Iustices of the Peace Mayor or other chief Officer Provided alwayes That no Horses Oxen Cart or Wain No horses or carriages to travel above a dayes journey nor without pay of ready money shall be enforced to travel above one dayes journey from the place where they receive their Lading and that ready payment shall be made in hand for the said Carriages at the place of Lading without delay according to the aforesaid Rates And in case any Iustice of the Peace Mayor chief Officer or Constable shall take any Gift or Reward to spare any person or persons from making such Carriage or shall injuriously charge or grieve any person through envy hatred or evill will who ought not to make such Carriage or shall Impress more Carriages then he shall be directed from the Gréen Cloth to do That then upon due proof and conviction thereof the party so offending shall forfeit the sum of Ten pounds to the party thereby grieved or any other who shall sue for the same to be recovered by Action of Debt in any of his Majesties Courts of Record wherein no Protection Essoin Penalty for wrongfull charging any person or Wager of Law shall be allowed And in case any person or persons shall presume to take upon him or them to Impress any horses Oxen cart wain or carriages for his Majesties service other then the person so impowered then he or they so offending shall upon due conviction of the said offence incur and suffer the punishment contained in the first recited Act. And whereas of late in his Majesties Progresses excessive Rates and Prices have béen exacted from his Maiesties servants for lodging horse-meat stable-room and other accomodations Rates for horse-meat and diet for his Majesties Servants Be it therefore Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That none of his Majesties said Servants shall be compelled to pay above one shilling by the night for every bed that they shall use for their servants And that in all such houses where any of his Majesties said servants shall pay for their dyet or for hay and provender for their horses convenient lodging shall be provided for themselves and their Servants without paying any thing for the same And be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid Rates Prices to be set down by two Iustices of the Peace that any two or more of the Iustices of the Peace near adjoyning to the Road through which his Majesty is to pass shall immediately after notice in writing from the said Gréen Cloth and Avenor under their hands and seals set down and appoint such reasonable Rates and Prices to be paid during his Majesties abode there both for hay oats and other accomodations for horses as they in their discretion shall think méet which Rates one day at the least before his Majesties coming to such place the said Iustices
to be levyed by distress and sale of the Goods of such person or persons so refusing as aforesaid rendering the overplus to the Party distrained necessary Charges for levying being first deducted Ability of persons assessed how to be discovered And for the better discovery of the Ability of the Persons so to be assessed and charged and of all Misdemeanors tending to the hinderance of the service aforesaid the said respective Lieutenants and their Deputies or any thrée or more of them are hereby enabled to examine upon Oath such Person or Persons as they shall judge necessary or convenient or shall be produced by the Party charged or accused other then the Persons themselves to be assessed and accused And for the better and more spéedy execution of the Premisses Be it further Enacted That the said respective Lieutenants shall be Treasurer and Clerks for receiving and paying moneys by this Act. and are hereby required to appoint one or more Treasurer or Treasurers Clerk or Clerks for receiving and paying such moneys as shall be levyed by vertue hereof of all which Receipts and Disbursements thereof the said Treasurer Clerk and Clerks are every six moneths to give their Accompts in writing and upon Oath to the said Lieutenants and their Deputies or any thrée or more of them which Oath they have hereby Power to administer And the said Accompt so to be taken shall be forthwith certified to the Lords of His Majesties most honorable Privy Council and a Duplicate thereof shall be certified to the Iustices of Peace at the next General Quarter Sessions And be it further Enacted That the Deputy-Lieutenants shall observe and obey such Orders and Directions as they shall from time to time receive from the respective Lieutenants for the putting in execution the Powers given by this Act. And for the better securing the Peace of the Kingdom Be it further Enacted and Ordained Who shall be appointed to search for and seize Arms are the houses of dangerous persons that the said respective Lieutenants or any two or more of their Deputies are hereby enabled authorised from time to time by warrant under their hands and seals to employ such Person or Persons as they shall think fit of which a Commissioned Officer and the Constable or his Deputy or the Tythingman or in the absence of the Constable and his Deputy and Tythingman some other person bearing Office within the Parish where the search shall be shall be two to search for and seize all Arms in the custody or possession of any Person or Persons whom the said Lieutenants or any two or more of their Deputies shall judge dangerous to the Peace of the Kingdom and to secure such Arms for the service aforesaid and thereof from time to time to give Accounts to the said respective Lieutenants and in their absence as aforesaid or otherwise by their directions to their Deputies or any two or more of them Provided that no such search be made in any house or houses betwéen Sun-setting and Sun-rising other then in Cities and their Suburbs and Towns Corporate Market-Towns and houses within the Bills of Mortality where it shall and may be lawful to search in the night-time by Warrant as aforesaid if the Warrant shall so direct and in case of resistance to enter by force Houses of Peers And that no dwelling-house of any Péer of this Realm be searched by vertue of this Act but by immediate Warrant from his Majesty under his Sign Manual or in the presence of the Lieutenant or one of the Deputy-Lieutenants of the same County or Riding And that in all places houses whatsoever where search is to be made as aforesaid it shall and may be lawful in case of resistance to enter by force And that the Arms so seised may be restored to the Owners again if the said Lieutenants or in their absence as aforesaid their Deputies or any two or more of them shall so think fit And be it Enacted That all high Constables petty Constables All high Constables and Officers to be aiding the respective Lieutenants and other Officers and Ministers within the said Counties Cities Parishes and places aforesaid be are hereby required to be aiding and assisting to the said respective Lieutenants and their Deputies or any of them in execution of the premisses And that all and every person and persons who shall act or do any thing in execution thereof shall be hereby saved harmless and indemnified And also that all and every person and persons who have heretofore acted or done any thing in execution of any Commission or Commissions of Lieutenancy issued by the Kings Majesty that now is or by colour of them or any of them or touching or concerning the same or any of them or relating thereunto since the 7th day of May One thousand six hundred sixty and one untill the 20th day of May One thousand six hundred sixty and two shall be and are hereby saved harmless and indemnified in that behalf And be it further Enacted and Ordained How persons are to be charged residing in one County and having lands in another That where any person or persons shall be charged by vertue of this Act to find a horse and Horse-man horses and Horse-men and Arms or Foot-souldier and Arms in such County City or place where he or they do not reside or inhabit that then and in such cases the respective Lieutenants and Deputies or any thrée or more of them shall send Notice of every such charge if such person have any land in his own occupation to such person as he doth imploy as his Servant in managing the same And in case all his lands or other estate be demised and to farm let then to one or two of the most sufficient Tenant or Tenants who shall have the same in their occupation who are hereby required forthwith with all convenient spéed to convey the same to their Master or Landlord respectively And within such time as shall be appointed in that behalf bring an accompt of their Master or Landlords answer to the respective Lieutenants and Deputies or any thrée or more of them And upon neglect or refusal of the Landlord to provide such horse and Horse-man horses and Horse-men and Arms or Foot-souldier and Arms as is duly charged upon him according to the Rates mentioned in this Act for the yearly Rent reserved upon every demise or other grant and not otherwise within the time limited for that purpose Tenants to provide Arms for their Landlords That then the said Tenant or Tenants shall provide and do as the Landlord in that behalf ought to have done And if the said tenant or tenants shall refuse or neglect to provide such horse and Horse-man horses and Horse-men and Arms or Foot-souldier and Arms as are charged upon his or their Landlords within the time limited That then and upon every such default it shall and may be lawful to
Wardens and fiftéen Assistants shall be chosen upon the same day yearly within the City of Norwich or County of Norfolk in some publick place by the Master-Weavers or the greater part of them present of the County of Norfolk And the said Wardens respectively shall within fourtéen days after they shall be so chosen or elected and notice thereof given take the Oath ensuing to be administred by the Mayor of the said City for the time being or his Deputy and the Steward of the Dutchy of Lancaster within the the said County for the time being if it shall happen the said Steward shall be there present or else before the said Mayor or his Deputy onely which Oath they and every of them are hereby Authorized and required from time to time to Administer accordingly Viz. I A. B. Do swear The Oath to be taken by them That I will well faithfully and honestly perform and discharge the Office of a Warden of the said Trade of Worsted Weavers according to the best of my skill power and knowledge And that the said Assistants and every of them within the time aforesaid shall take the like Oath before such person or persons before whom the Wardens shall be Sworn for the execution of that Office of an Assistant and that if it shall happen that any of the said Wardens who shall be so chosen shall refuse to take the said Oath or after he be sworn shall die before the end of the year That then from time to time so often as néed shall be it shall and may be lawfull to and for the Master-Weavers of the said City County of the City of Norwich and County of Norfolk respectively as the cause shall require to chuse other Warden or Wardens in the place of him or them so dying or refusing who shall be sworn in such manner as aforesaid The powers in this act for Regulation of Trade to be put in execution And for the Regulation and good Government of the said Trade and Manufacture the said Wardens and Assistants or any thirtéen of them whereof seven to be Wardens shall and may from time to time méet and consult together for the good and benefit of the said Trade and Manufacture and for due execution of the Powers and Authorities given by this Act so often as to them shal séem expedient or when it shall be desired by eight or more of the said Assistants at the place called Weavers Hall in the said City Power to make By-laws and orders or at such other place as they shall think fit And that any thirtéen or more of the said Wardens and Assistants whereof seven at the least to be Wardens shall have and hereby have power and Authority from time to time so often as néed shall require to make and ordain By-laws Rules and Ordinances for and concerning the Regulation of the laid Worsted-Stuffs and other Stuffs now made and which hereafter shall be made within the said City and County of the City of Norwich and County of Norfolk and in either of them both in length breadth and goodness and of such other particulars as shall by the said Wardens and Assistants so met or the greater number of them from time to time be adjudged requisit for the better Regulating the said Trade and Manufacture and the Artificers of the same in the due execution of this Act and to make Seals from time to time for the sealing of the same Stuffs which By-laws Rules and Ordinances being ratified and confirmed by the Mayor and two Iustices of the Peace of the said City and County of Norwich for the time being and thrée other Iustices of Peace of the said County of Norfolk whereof one to be of the Quorum shall be published four times in the year at the least To be published at Four assemblies to be held yearly at four Publick Assemblies for the said Trade and Manufacture and shall be obeyed and kept by the several persons within and under the said Regulation The penalty upon offendors against such By-laws and orders And the said Wardens and Assistants shall have and hereby have power to impose a fine or penalty upon any person or persons under such Regulation as shall not conform to such Rules Orders and Ordinances so made and to be made and confirmed as aforesaid Provided that the said Fine or Penalty upon any person for not conforming as aforesaid shall not excéed the sum of Ten shillings for any one offence Notice of meeting by the City of Norwich to be gâ—ven to the Wardens of the County of Norfolk And it is further Enacted That the Wardens and Assistants of the said City and County of the City of Norwich shall from time to time give Personal notice unto the Wardens of the said County of Norfolk or two of them at the least of the time when they intend to consider of the making of By-laws Rules and Ordinances as aforesaid and shall set it up in writing upon the Door of their Sealing-Hall fourtéen days at the least before they shall procéed to the making the same to the end that such of the said Country Weavers as are therein concerned may be there present And for the better Regulation and carrying on the work aforesaid and for avoiding of all Frauds and Deceipts therein Be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That all Yarns called Worsted Yarns and such other Yarns as are commonly used by the Worsted Weavers shall be made without Fraud Yarns called Worsted Yarns how to be made and shall be Réeled on a Réel of a full Yard about and every Réel-staff shall contain fourtéen Leas and every Lea forty threads twelve of which Réel-staffs shall make a dozen and twelve of those dozens shall make a gross And in case any Person or Persons shall sell or expose to sale any of the said Yarns made and Réeled in any other manner than as is aforesaid that then every such Person or Persons shall forfeit the Moyety of the value of the said Yarns to the use of the said Trade and Manufactures after charges of Suit and of Prosecution first deducted out of the same which forfeiture shall be recovered by Action of Debt Bill Plaint Indictment or Information in any of the Kings Majesties Courts of Record wherein no Wager of Law Essoyn or Protection shall be allowed for the Defendant View and search to be made of manufactures in Faires and markets And that it shall and may be lawful to and for the Wardens and Assistants of the said Trade and Manufactures or any two of them from time to time to View and Search in all Fairs and Markets and other publick places of sale of Yarns within the said City of Norwich and County of the same and County of Norfolk and either of them all Yarns which be there exposed to sale and such of the said Yarns as they shall find defective contrary to the Rules herein
sued for and disposed as hereafter in this Act is directed Provided nevertheless That this Act or any thing therein contained shall not extend to the Prohibiting the Transportation of any Leather made into Boots 5 E. 6. cap. 15. 1 Mar. cap. 8. Parl. 2. Quaere If those two Statutes be Repealed by this Proviso Who may search and seize Leather or Hides intended to be Transported Shooes or Slippers but that the same may be Transported Any thing in this Act contained to the contrary notwithstanding And be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That it shall and may be lawful to and for the respective Masters and Wardens of the Cordweyners Sadlers Girdlers and Curriers of the City of London and their Deputies and all Customers Comptrollers Farmers of Customes Supervisors Searchers and other Officers belonging to the Customs and to and for all Iustices of the Peace Mayors and chief Officers of Corporations within this Realm Dominion of Wales or Town of Berwick upon Tweed from time to time as well by Land as Water to Search for and seize any Leather or Raw Hides wrought or unwrought cut or uncut packed up or unpacked intended or purposed to be Transported by any person or persons into any parts beyond the Seas or into Scotland other then Calves-skins and Shéep-skins as aforesaid Shaving of Leather by Tanners And whereas divers Tanners do shave cut and rake their upper-leather Hides all over and the necks of their backs and buts to the great impairing thereof and the extream prejudice of the Kingdom Be it therefore Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That every Tanner who after the Nine and twentieth day of September in the year of our Lord One thousand six hundred sixty and two The Penalty shall commit any such offence as aforesaid shall forfeit all the said Leather Backs Buts or Calve-skins so shaved cut or raked or the value thereof and it shall be lawful for the Searchers and Sealers of Leather to seize the same Leaden-Hall London And be it further Enacted That the Market for Leather in Leaden-Hall in London shall be kept on the Tuesday as now it is Any Law Vsage or Custom to the contrary in any wise notwithstanding How the Penalties shall be recovered And be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That all the penalties and forfeitures and every sum and sums of money for any offence or offences herein before mentioned shall be recovered by Action of Debt Bill Plaint Information to be brought for the same in any Court or Courts at Westminster or in any Court or Courts of Records in the City Town County or place where the said offence shall be committed wherein no Wager of Law Protection or Essoign shall be admitted neither shall the same be removed out of the said County City or Town-Corporate the one half of the said forfeitures to be to the use of the Kings Majesty his Heirs and Successors and the other half thereof to the use of the Informer or Informers that shall sue for the same Transportation of Leather declared a common Nusance Leather for necessary use of Ships in Voyages Artificers dealing in cutting of Leather in London or within three miles thereof Provided also and be it Enacted That all such Exportation or Transportation of any Hides or Leather contrary to this Act is hereby adjudged and declared to be a common and publick Nusance Provided nevertheless That this Act shall not extend or be construed to prohibit the carrying or conveying of any such Hides or Leather which shall be vsed or imployed for the necessary vse or provision of any Ship or Vessel in any Voyage beyond the Seas and which shall not be sold in any forreign parts so as the number do not excéed Six Raw Hides and Thrée Tanned Hides Provided alwayes nevertheless And be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That all and every Artificer dealing in cutting of Leather or other person or persons whatsoever which shall hereafter buy any Red Tanned Leather within the City of London or thrée miles thereof shall before the next Market-day within the said place for sale of Leather give Notice thereof to one or more of the Company of Curryers then exercising and using the Art and Mystery of a Curryer within the said City of London and thrée miles thereof and within thrée wéeks after such notice shall deliver or cause to be delivered the said Leather so bought except such part thereof as shall be used for Soals without being curryed tallowed or dressed unto the said Curryer or Curryers to whom such notice was given to the intent that the same may be curryed tallowed or otherwise dressed as is directed and appointed by one Act made in the First year of King James 1 Jac. cap. 22. Chapter twenty second touching the Duty of Tanners Curryers Shoemakers and others upon penalty of the forfeiture of Six shillings eight pence for every Back But Hide or Calves-skin so bought and not delivered as aforesaid for the uses and to be recovered as aforesaid And whereas it is Enacted amongst other things Leather used in London or within three miles to be searched and allowed by the Wardens of the Curriers there The Penalty by the said Act made in the First year of King James That no person or persons shall by any means occupy or put in any Made-wares within the City of London or thrée miles of the same City any Curryed Leather before the same shall be searched and allowed by the Wardens of the Curryers of London for the time being or such persons as they shall thereto assign and be Sealed with a Seal therefore to be prepared upon pain that every Shoemaker and other Artificer Cutter of Leather offending against that Article should forfeit for every Hide or Skin otherwise curryed or imployed as is aforesaid Six shillings eight pence and the value of every such Hide or Skin Be it therefore further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That the Master and Wardens of the Company of Curryers for the time being or such persons as they shall thereto assign shall from time to time and at all seasonable times in the day time enter into any Warehouse Shop Celler or other place within the said City of London or thrée miles of the same City belonging unto any of the said Cordwainers Sadlers Girdlers or other person or persons being Artificers dealing in cutting Leather and in the presence of any two or more of them to search for and seize all such Leather intended to be Prohibited to be used by the said Clause Branch or Article as aforesaid as also for all Wares made of such Leather and if any such person or persons Artificers or Dealers as aforesaid shall oppose Penalties for opposing the Search or refuse to permit the said Master and Wardens of the Company of Curriers or such persons as they shall thereto assign to make any such search or
seisure as aforesaid he or they shall forfeit for every such offence the sum of Twenty pounds for the uses and to be recovered as aforesaid And if any of the said Artificers and Dealers in cutting of Leather do refuse to be present with the said Searchers whensoever the same shall be desired by the said Master and Wardens of the Company of the Curriers or such persons thereto assigned by them as aforesaid then for every such default the persons so refusing shall forfeit the sum of Ten pounds for the uses and to be recovered as aforesaid CAP. VIII An Act for Distribution of Threescore thousand pounds amongst the truly Loyal and Indigent Commission-Officers and for Assessing of Offices and Distributing Moneys thereby raised for their further Supply EXP. CAP. IX For Relief of Poor and Maimed Officers and Souldiers who have faithfully served His Majesty and His Royal Father in the late Wars FOrasmuch as divers of His Majesties Loyal and Faithful Subjects who out of the sense of their Duty and Allegiance to his Majesties Royal Father of ever Blessed and Glorious Memory and to His Majestie that now is have during the late Wars wherein they have béen Imployed both by Sea and Land as Officers Souldiers and Mariners in the said Service exposed themselves to the utmost hazard of their Lives loss of their Limbs and utter ruine of their Fortunes and for whose Subsistence and Relief there is not yet any competent Provision made Nor for the Relief of the Widows and Orphans of such as have died or béen slain in the said Service And to the end that such as have béen eminent for their Loyalty and Sufferings The inducement and ground of this Act. in so good and just a Cause as the Defence of His Majesties Royal Person and Government may not passe without some Mark of Favour or Reward to be set upon them And that others may thereby receive all due Encouragement for the time to come to continue Loyal and Faithful to His Majesties Service according to their bounden Duty Be it Enacted by the Kings most Excellent Majesty by and with the Advice and Consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal and Commons in this present Parliament assembled and by Authority of the same That from the First day of this present Parliament every Parish within this Realm of England and Dominion of Wales and Town of Berwick upon Tweed shall be charged wéekly to the payment of such sum of Money as formerly they have béen rated by vertue of a Statute made in the Forty third year of Quéen Elizabeth Chapter the third 43 El. cap. 3. concerning the Relief of Mariners and Souldiers for and to such end and purpose How Parishes may be charged assessed and levied And likewise such further sum of Money over and besides the same as by His Majesties Iustices of the Peace in their next Quarter-Sessions to be held after the Feast of Easter next ensuing or the major part of them or at any other Quarter-Sessions to be hereafter by them held shall be adjudged méet to be Assessed upon every Parish or Chappelry that hath distinct Parochial Officers so as the said additional sum excéed not the sum of Two shillings and six pence nor be under the sum of Thrée pence each wéek for each such Parish or Chappelry the same to be levied in manner and form by such persons and under such penalties as by the said Statute of Quéen Elizabeth is Enacted and Declared And to be paid to the Treasurers for the Maimed Souldiers Treasurer for Maimed Souldiers appointed by the Iustices of the County or Liberty by vertue of this Act and the Statute of Quéen Elizabeth aforesaid Which said Treasurers shall be ordered to issue out and account for the same in such manner and under such penalties as by the said Statute is further Enacted and Declared And be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid â—fficers â—â—â—ldiers or â—â—â—triners Maimed or indigent how to be relieved That every Officer Souldier or Mariner maimed indigent aged or disabled in body for work in the Service of His said late Majesty or His Majesty that now is during the late Wars or which are so Impoverished by their Sufferings under any of the late Vsurped Powers as that they are destitute of any competent Subsistence or Livelihood and have continued Faithful to his Trust and not deserted the same by taking up Arms against His said late Majesty or His Majesty that now is or otherwise shall forthwith repair to the place where he was last setled before he took up Arms with a Certificate of his Service and hurts received under the hand of his Captain or other Commissionated Officer And shall also repair unto the two next Iustices of the Peace in the County where such his Setling was And the said two Iustices upon the Examination of the Truth of such Certificate which the said two Iustices are hereby impowred to take upon Oath of the party and of such Witnesses as he shall produce shall by Warrant unto the Treasurer assign him Relief until the next Quarter-Sessions to be holden for that County or Liberty at which time a yearly Pension shall be by the said Iustices or the major part of them granted in Manner and Form and with Power of Revocation or Alteration as by the said Statute is further declared and directed And in case that the Captain or Officer appointed to make such Certificate be dead the said two Iustices shall have Power upon Request made to them in behalf of the party maimed or aged indigent or disabled as aforesaid by Persons of Credit to give such Relief as in case of Examination as aforesaid Widowes and Orphans of Souldiers And as touching the Widows and Orphans of such as have died or suffered death in the said Service It is hereby further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That over and besides such Relief as they shall gain by their Work and Labour and shall be allowed by the Charity and Benevolence of the Parish Town or Hamlet where they are setled who are hereby required to have them in special regard the Treasurers for the Maimed Souldiers for such County shall allow such further Relief from time to time as shall be adjudged méet by the two next Iustices of the Peace of such County And the said Relief shall be paid out of the Surplusage of such Stock of Maintenance as shall remain in the hands of the said Treasurers after such Pensions and payment of them made and of which Surplusage and Allowance made unto such Widows and Orphans the said Treasurers shall give account from time to time and the same distribute in such manner as by the Iustices shall be directed and according to the Statute aforesaid Treasurers High-Constables c. to be called to Accompt for Moneys received And be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That the Iustices of Peace in every County or Liberty or any
build Cottages and the most Woods for them to burn and destroy and when they have consumed it then to another Parish and at last become Rogues and Vagabonds to the great discouragement of Parishes to provide Stocks where it is liable to be devoured by strangers Be it therefore Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That it shall and may be lawful How to be setled coming to any Tenement under ten pounds yearly value upon complaint made by the Church-wardens or Overseers of the poor of any Parish to any Iustice of Peace within Forty dayes after any such person or persons coming so to settle as aforesaid in any Tenement under the yearly value of Ten pounds for any two Iustices of the Peace whereof one to be of the Quorum of the Division where any person or persons that are likely to be chargeable to the Parish shall come to inhabit by their Warrant to remove and convey such person or persons to such Parish where he or they were last legally setled either as a native Housholder Sojourner Apprentice or Servant for the space of forty dayes at the least unless he or they give sufficient security for the discharge of the said Parish to be allowed by the said Iustices Persons grieved may appeal to the Quarter Sessions Provided alwayes That all such persons who think themselves agrieved by any such Iudgement of the said two Iustices may appeal to the Iustices of the Peace of the said County at their next Quarter-Sessions who are hereby required to do them justice according to the merits of their Cause Persons going to work in harvest Provided also That this Act notwithstanding it shall and may be lawfull for any person or persons to go into any County Parish or place to work in time of Harvest or at any time to work at any other work so that he or they carry with him or them a Certificate from the Minister of the parish and one of the Churchwardens and one of the Overséers for the poor for the said year that he or they have a dwelling house or place in which he or they inhabit and hath left wife and children or some of them there or otherwise as the condition of the person shall require and is declared an Inhabitant or Inhabitants there And in such case if the person or persons shall not return to the place aforesaid when his or their work is finished or shall fall sick or impotent whilst he or they are in the said work it shall not be accounted a Settlement in the cases abovesaid but that it shall and may be lawful for two Iustices of the Peace to convey the said person or persons to the place of his or their habitation as aforesaid under the pains and penalties in this Act prescribed And if such person or persons shall refuse to go or shall not remain in such parish where they ought to be setled as aforesaid but shall return of his own accord to the parish from whence he was removed it shall and may be lawful for any Iustice of the Peace of the City County or Town-Corporate where the said Offence shall be committed to send such person or persons offending to the House of Correction there to be punished as a Vagabond or to a publick Work-house in this present Act hereafter mentioned there to be imployed in work or labour And if the Church-wardens and Overséers of the Poor of the Parish to which he or they shall be removed refuse to receive such person or persons and to provide work for them as other Inhabitants of the Parish any Iustice of Peace of that Division may and shall thereupon bind any such Officer or Officers in whom there shall be default to the Assizes or Sessions there to be Indicted for his or their Contempt in that behalf And for the further redress of the mischiefs intended to be hereby remedied Corporations or work houses in the Cities of London and Westminster Middlesex Surrey Be it Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That from thenceforth there be and shall be one or more Corporation or Corporations Work-house or Work-houses within the Cities of London and Westminster and within the Burroughs Towns and places of the County of Middlesex and Surrey scituate lying and being within the Parishes mentioned in the Wéekly Bills of Mortality consisting of a President a Deputy to the President and a Treasurer And that the Lord Mayor of the City of London for the time being be President of the Corporation or Corporations Work-house or Work-houses within the said City and the Assistants to be the Aldermen of the said City of London for the time being and fifty two other Citizens to be chosen by the Common-Council of the said City And that the said President and Assistants or the major part of them shall and may elect a Deputy-President and Treasurer and all other necessary Officers hereby constituted and authorized to execute the powers and Offices by this Act appointed And that upon the vacancy by death or otherwise of any Assistant the power to elect in their rooms be in the said Common-Council and the Election of the Deputy-President or Treasurer and all other Officers in the said President and major part of the Assistants as aforesaid And that a President a Deputy-President a Treasurer and Assistants be nominated and appointed by the Lord Chancellor or Lord Kéeper of the Great Seal of England for the time being out of the most fit persons inhabiting in the City of Westminster or the Liberties thereof for the Corporation or Corporations Work-house or Work-houses within the same And for the said places within the Wéekly Bills of Mortality in the said Counties of Middlesex and Surrey respectively President Deputy-president Treasurer and Assistants for Middlesex Surrey how to be elected there shall be elected and chosen by the major part of the Iustices of the Peace for the said Counties in their respective Quarter-Sessions assembled out of the most able and honest Inhabitants and Fréeholders of every of the said Counties of Middlesex and Surrey respectively a President a Deputy-President a Treasurer and Assistants for the Corporation or Corporations Work-house or Work-houses of the places aforesaid in Middlesex and Surrey And that upon the vacancy by death or otherwise of any of the Presidents Deputy-Presidents Treasurers or Assistants in the City of Westminster and places aforesaid in Middlesex and Surrey City of Westminster the power to elect others in their rooms be in the major part of the respective Iustices of Peace who in their General Quarter-Sessions from time to time shall accordingly supply such vacant places And that at every Quarter-Sessions they shall require and take an account in writing of all the Receipts Charges and Disbursements of the Officers and Treasurer of such Corporation or Corporations Work-house or Work-houses how many Poor people have béen imployed and set to work in the year last past and what stock there was
and is remaining which President Deputy-President and Treasurer for the time being respectively shall for ever hereafter in name and fact be Bodies Politick and Corporate in Law to all intents and purposes and shall have a perpetual Succession and may Sue or Plead or be Sued and Impleaded by the name of the President and Governours for the Poor of the respective places aforementioned in all Courts and places of Iudicature within this Kingdom and the Dominion of Wales and the Town of Berwick upon Tweed and by that Name every of the said Corporations shall and may without License in Mortmain purchase or receive any Lands Tenements or Hereditaments not excéeding the yearly value of Thrée thousand pounds per annum of the Gift Alienation or Devise of any person or persons who are hereby without further License enabled to give the same and any Goods Chattels or sums of Money whatsoever to the use intent and purposes hereafter limited and appointed And the each respective Corporation or any Seven of them shall have hereby Power and Authority from time to time to méet and kéep Courts for the ends and purposes in this Act expressed at such time and place as shall be appointed by the said President his Deputy or the Treasurer who are hereby required upon the desire of any Four of the said Corporation at any time to cause a Court to be warned accordingly And shall have hereby Authority from time to time to make and appoint a Common-Seal for the use of the said Corporation And it is further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid The powers of the said President and Governours of the said Corporations That it shall and may be lawful to and for the said President and Governours of the said Corporations for the time being or any two of them or to or for any person authorized and appointed by them or any two of them from time to time to apprehend or cause to be apprehended any Rogues Vagrants Sturdy Beggars or Idle or disorderly persons within the said Cities and Liberties Places Divisions and Precincts and to cause them to be kept and set to work in the several and respective Corporations or Work-houses and it shall and may be lawful for the major part of the Iustices of Peace in their Quarter-Sessions to signify unto his Majesties Privy Council the names of such Rogues Vagabonds Idle and Disorderly persons and Sturdy Beggars as they shall think fit to be Transported to the English Plantations and upon the approbation of his Majesties Privy Council to the said Iustices of Peace signified which persons shall be Transported it shall and may be lawful for any two or more of the Iustices of the Peace them to Transport or cause to be Transported from time to time during the space of thrée years next ensuing the end of this present Session of Parliament to any of the English Plantations beyond the Seas there to be disposed in the usual way of Servants for a term not excéeding Seven years A stock for supply of the work how to be provided in London Westminster Middlesex Surrey And be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That if the President and Governours of any of the said Corporations shall certify under their common Seal their want and defect either of a present stock for the Foundation of the Work or for supply thereof for the future and what sum or sums of Money they shall think fit for the same to the Common-Council of the said City of London and the Burgesses and Iustices of Peace in their Quarter-Sessions of the said City of Westminster and the Liberties thereof or the Iustices of the respective Counties of Middlesex and Surrey assembled in either Quarter-Sessions That thereupon the Common-Council of the said City of London the Burgesses of the said City of Westminster and the Iustices of Peace of the said Cities and Counties in their Quarter-Sessions assembled are hereby required from time to time to set down and ascertain such competent sum and sums of money for the purposes aforesaid not excéeding one years rate from time to time usually set upon any person for or towards the relief of the Poor and the same to proportion out upon the several Wards Precincts Counties Divisions Hundreds and Parishes as they shall think fit And thereupon the Aldermen Deputies and Common-Council-men of every Ward in the City of London and Burgesses and Iustices of the Peace of the City of Westminster and the Liberties thereof and Iustices of the Peace of the said Counties of Middlesex and Surrey shall have power and Authority and are hereby required equally and indifferently according to the proportions appointed as aforesaid for the several Wards Precincts Cities and Parishes as aforesaid to tax and rate the several Inhabitants within the said respective Wards Precincts and Parishes as well within Liberties as without with which Tax if any person or persons find him or themselves agrieved supposing the same to be unequal he or they shall and may make their complaint known to the Iustices of the Peace at the next open Sessions who shall take such final order therein as in like cases is already by the Law provided And it is further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That it shall and may be lawful to and for any Alderman of the City of London or his Deputy or the Burgesses and Iustices of Peace of the City of Westminster and the Liberties thereof or any two or more of them or any two Iustices of Peace of the respective Counties of Middlesex and Surrey by their Warrant under their Hands and Seals to authorize the Church-wardens or Overséers for the Poor within the places and Parishes aforesaid to demand gather and receive of every person and persons such sum and sums of money as shall be Assessed upon them by vertue of the Taxations and Contributions aforesaid And for default of payment within ten dayes after demand thereof made or notice in writing left at the dwelling-house or lodging of every person so Assessed to levy the same by distress and sale of the goods of every such person and after satisfaction made to restore the surplusage to the party so distrained Stocks formerly in London for relief of the poor how to be paid And be it Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That all Stocks raised for the relief and imployment of the Poor in the City of London and Liberties thereof which was in the hands of a Corporation heretofore appointed in the said City for that service or in the hands of any other person or persons whatsoever before the Nine and twentieth day of September which was in the year of our Lord One thousand six hundred and sixty commonly called the Feast of St. Michael the Archangel or at any time since together with all the Arrears of money formerly alloted for that Service or Legacies given to the same end shall be payable to the Treasurer of the Corporation or Corporations
Work-house or Work-houses to be established by this present Act who are hereby authorized and impowred by themselves or their Officers thereunto by them deputed to collect gather receive and recover the said money and Legacies which shall be due and in arrear as aforesaid with which said Arrears and every part and parcel thereof the Corporation or Corporations aforesaid by this Act made constituted and established is and shall be hereby invested and interessed for the execution of the service hereby enjoyned them and all those that have had or now have any of the said Stocks in their or any of their hands shall be accountable to the said Treasurer or to those that shall be appointed by the said Corporation or Corporations or any seven or more of them to take the said account Provided always And be it Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That there shall be a full allowance of all just and necessary expences which have béen laid out by the said former Corporation for the relief of the said poor and the carrying on of the said Service since the time before expressed Power to make Orders and By-laws And it is further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That the respective President and Governours or any Seven of them shall have power from time to time to make and constitute Orders and By-Laws for the better relieving regulating and setting the poor to work and the apprehending and punishing of Rogues Vagabonds and Beggers within the Cities Liberties and places aforesaid that have not wherewith to maintain themselves and for other the matters aforesaid Provided the said Orders and By-Laws shall from time to time be presented to the Iustices of Peace in their Quarter-Sessions assembled to be allowed by the major part of them and confirmed by order of the said Court And it is further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid Power to choose and entertain officers That the President and Governours of any of the said Corporation or Corporations Work-house or Work-houses or any fourtéen or more of them being assembled together shall have hereby power to choose and entertain all such Officers and other as shall be néedful to be imployed in and about the premisses and them or any of them from time to time to remove as they shall see cause and upon the death or removal of them or any of them to choose others in their places for the carrying on of the work and to make and give such reasonable allowances unto them or any of them out of the Stock and Revenue belonging to the said Corporation or Work-house as they shall think fit And it is further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That all Sheriffs Bailiffs Constables All Sheriffs c. to be assisting the said Corporation their officers and all other Officers and Ministers of Iustice shall be aiding and assisting to the said Corporation or Corporations and to all such Officers as shall be imployed by them or any of them in the execution or performance of the said Service And whereas the Laws and Statutes for the apprehending of Rogues and Vagabonds have not béen duly executed sometimes for want of Officers by reason Lords of Mannors do not kéep Court Léets every year for the making of them Constables how made in default of holding Court-Leets Be it therefore Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That in case any Constable Headborough or Tithingmen shall dye or go out of the Parish any two Iustices of the Peace may make and swear a new Constable Headborough or Tithingman untill the said Lord shall hold a Court or untill next Quarter-Sessions who shall approve of the said Officers so made and sworn as aforesaid or appoint others as they shall think fit And if any Officer shall continue above a year in his or their Office That then in such case the Iustices of Peace in their Quarter-Sessions may discharge such Officers and may put another fit person in his or their place untill the Lord of the said Mannor shall hold a Court as aforesaid And whereas for want of some encouragement to such person or persons as shall apprehend Rogues Vagabonds and sturdy Beggars 39 El. cap. 17. 1 Jac. cap. 7. Apprehending Rogues and Vagabonds the Statutes made in the Nine and thirtieth year of Quéen Elizabeth and first year of King James in which Statutes the Constable Headborough or Tithingman of every Parish that shall not apprehend such Rogues Vagabonds and Sturdy Beggars which shall pass through or be found in their said Parish unapprehended such Constable Headborough or Tithingman shall forfeit as in the said Statutes is expressed are not duly executed Be it therefore Enacted by the Authority aforesaid How rewarded That it shall and may be lawful to and for any Iustice of the Peace to whom any Rogue Vagabond or Sturdy Beggars so apprehended shall be brought to reward any person or persons that shall apprehend any Rogue Vagabond or Sturdy Beggar by granting unto such person or persons an Order or Warrant under his hand and Seal to the Constable Headborough or Tithingman of such Parish where such Rogue Vagabond or sturdy Beggar passed through unapprehended requiring him to pay such person or persons the sum of two shillings for every Rogue Vagabond or sturdy Beggar which shall be so apprehended And if such Constable Headborough or Tithingmen refuse or neglect to pay the two shillings as aforesaid that then the said Iustices of Peace or any other Iustice or Iustices of Peace shall procéed against any such Constable Headborough or Tithingman according to the said Statutes and to compel him to pay such sum of money as he hath forfeited by the Statute of the first year of King James aforesaid and to allow out of the said Forfeiture the said two shillings and such reasonable means and allowance for loss of time as they shall think fit And if any person or persons shall apprehend any Rogue Vagabond or sturdy Beggar Rogues and Vagabonds apprehended at the contines of any county how to be dealt withal at the confines of any County which passed through any Parish of another County unapprehended it shall be lawful for such person or persons to go to some Iustice of Peace of that County through which such Rogue Vagabond or sturdy Beggar passed unapprehended who is hereby required upon a Certificate under the hand of some Iustice of Peace of the County where such Rogue Vagabond or sturdy Beggar was so apprehended to grant his Order or Warrant under his hand and Seal requiring the said Constable Headborough or Tithingman to pay unto such person or persons as aforesaid the sum of two shillings which if he shall refuse or neglect to do then such Iustice is hereby required to procéed against such Constable Headborough or Tithingman and to cause him to pay ten shillings or so much thereof for his expenses and loss of time as the said Iustice of Peace shall think fit to such person
by their industry and labour have attained and gained so great skill and dexterity in the making thereof that they make as good of all sorts thereof as is made in any Forreign parts by reason whereof they have béen heretofore able to relieve their poor Neighbours and maintained their Families and also enabled to set on work many poor children and other persons who have very small means or maintenance of living other then by their labours and endeavours in the said Art And whereas the persons so imployed in the said Mystery have heretofore served most parts of this Kingdom with Bonelace Band-strings Buttons Néedlework and Imbroidery And for the carrying on and managing of the said Trade they have procured great quantities of Thread and Silk to be brought into the Kingdom from Foreign parts whereby his Majesties Customs and Revenues have béen much advanced until of late that great quantities of Foreign Bonelace Band-strings Néedlework Cut-work Fringe Silk Bonelace Buttons and Imbroidery were brought into this Kingdom by Foreigners and Inhabitants of this Kingdom and sold to Shop-kéepers and others Dealers in the said Commodity as well by Whole-sale as Retail without ever entring of the same in any of his Majesties Custom-houses or paying any Duty or Custom for the same by means whereof the said Trade and calling is of late very much decayed those imployed in the said Calling very much impoverished the Manufacture much decreased and great quantities thereof already made left on their hands that make it His Majesty defrauded and deceived in his Customs and many thousand poor people formerly kept on work in the said Art like to perish for want of imployment there being daily great sums of money exported out of this Kingdom for the buying and fetching in of the said Commodity to the great impoverishment of the Nation by the Consumption of the Bullion and Treasure thereof and contrary to several Statutes made in the first of King Richard the Third 1 R. 3. cap. 12. 3 E. 4. cap. 4. 19 H. 7. cap. 21 5 Eliz. cap. 7. in the third of King Edward the fourth in the ninetéenth of King Henry the Seventh and the fifth of Quéen Elizabeth and to a late Proclamation made by his Majesty that now is dated the twentieth day of November last for the putting the said Laws in execution For redress whereof and prevention of the like mischiefs for the future and the better relief comfort and subsistence of those imployed in the said Art and Manufacture And for the quickning reviving explaining amending and more effectual execution of the said Statutes Be it Enacted by the Kings most Excellent Majesty by and with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal and Commons in this present Parliament Assembled and by Authority of the same That no person or persons whatsoever shall from and after the Twenty fourth day of June One thousand six hundred sixty two sell or cause to be sold or offer to sale within the Kingdom of England or Dominion of Wales or export any Foreign Bonelace Cut-work Foreign bone-lace cut-work imbroidery fringe band-strings prohibited to be sold or imported from beyond Sea Imbroidery Fringe Band-strings Buttons or Néedlework made of Thread Silk or any or either of them in parts beyond the Seas or Import bring in send or convey or cause to be brought in sent or conveyed into the Kingdom of England or Dominion of Wales any such Foreign Bonelace Cut-work Fringe Imbroidery Band-strings Buttons or Néedlework made of Thread Silk or any or either of them beyond the Seas after the first day of May which shall be in the said year of our Lord One thousand six hundred sixty and two upon pain that all and every person or persons who shall sell or cause to be sold or offer to sale any such Foreign Bonelace Cut-work Imbroidery Fringe Band-strings Buttons or Néedlework shall forfeit and lose for every offence by him committed contrary to this Act the sum of Fifty pounds and the whole Bonelace Cut-work Imbroidery Fringe Band-strings Buttons or Néedlework so sold or caused to be sold or offered to sale And upon further pain That all and every person or persons who shall Import bring in send or convey or cause to be brought in sent or conveyed into this Kingdom of England or Dominion of Wales any such Bonelace Cut-work The penalty Imbroidery Fringe Band-strings Buttons or Néedlework shall forfeit and lose for every offence by him committed contrary to this Act the sum of One hundred pounds and the whole Bonelace Cut-work Imbroidery Fringe Band-strings Buttons or Néedle-work so Imported brought in sent or conveyed or caused to be Imported brought in sent or conveyed contrary to the form and effect of this present Act as aforesaid One moyety to the King the other to the prosecutor The Moyeties of all which Forfeitures to be to the use of our Sovereign Lord the Kings Majesty his Heirs and Successors and the other Moyety to him or them that shall sue for the same in any of the Kings Courts of Record by Bill Plaint Action of Debt Information or otherwise wherein no Essoign Protection or Wager of Law shall be allowed at every time and as often as any person shall be found to offend in selling importing conveying or bringing in as aforesaid Every Iustice of Peace may grant Warrants to search for Manufactures prohibited by this Act And be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That for the preventing of the Importing of the said Manufactures as aforesaid upon complaint and Information given to the Iustices of the Peace or any or either of them within their respective Counties Cities and Towns Corporate at times reasonable he or they are hereby authorized and required to issue forth his or their Warrants to the Constables of their respective Counties Cities and Towns Corporate to enter and search for such Manufactures in the Shops being open or Ware-houses and dwelling-houses of such person or persons as shall be suspected to have any such Foreign Bonelaces Imbroidery Cut-work Fringe Band-strings Buttons or Néedlework within their respective Counties Cities and Towns-Corporate and to seize the same any Act Statute or Ordinance to the contrary thereof in any wise notwithstanding The time limited for actions upon this Act. Provided always and be it hereby Enacted and Declared That all Informations Actions and Suits that shall be commenced for any offence committed against this Law shall be brought and commenced within twelve Moneths after the discovery of such offence Any former Act or Law to the contrary notwithstanding CAP. XIV Direction for Prosecution of such as are Accountable for Prize-Goods 12 Car. 2. c. 11 VVHereas in the Act of Frée and General Pardon Indempnity and Oblivion made in the Twelfth Year of your Majesties Reign and since confirmed by another Act Intituled An Act for confirming Publick Acts 13 Car. 2. c. 7. made in the thirtéenth year of your
within the said Accompt whereupon he had his Quietus est unless such Sheriff should be called in question for such sums of Money so pretended to be Levied and not Accompted for within four years after the time of such Accompt and Quietus est which Act notwithstanding divers Sheriffs and their Heirs upon such pretences have béen molested and troubled many years after their Accompts and Quietus est and have had Process sent out against them contrary to the true intent and meaning of the said Act It is hereby further Provided and Enacted That when any Sheriff or Sheriffs within the Kingdom of England or Dominion of Wales upon passing their Accompts shall have their Quietus est that then such Sheriff and Sheriffs their Heirs Executors and Administrators Lands Tenements Goods and Chattels shall be thereby absolutely discharged of all manner of sum or sums of Money whatsoever by them Levyed and Received notwithstanding any such pretence that the same were not accompted for or other pretence whatsoever unless such Sheriff or Sheriffs shall be called in question and that Iudgment shall be given against him or them for the same within four years next after such Accompt or Quietus est and that every Officer or Minister by whom or by whose default any Writ or Process contrary to this Act shall be sent out shall incur the like Forfeitures and Penalties to be recovered and inflicted by such persons and in such manner as by the aforesaid Act is provided Provided alwayes That this Act or any thing therein contained shall not extend to the Counties of Chester Chester Lancaster Durham Wales Lancaster Durham or the Counties in Wales being County-Palatines as to their manner of accompting but that the Sheriffs therein shall accompt as formerly before the respective Auditors only and not elsewhere Proviso touching the Kings Remembrancer Lord Treasurers Remembrancer Provided That this Act or any thing therein contained shall not extend to enjoyn His Majesties Remembrancer or the Lord Treasurers Remembrancer to transcribe and deliver to the Ingrosser of the great Roll any Inquisitions or Seisures but such as have béen formerly charged in the Foreign Accompts of the Sheriffs but for all Inquisitions upon Attainders or other Forfeitures to the Crown the same shall be put in charge as heretofore they have béen according to the constant usage and Decrée of the Court of Exchequer Nor shall this Act or any thing therein contained extend to exclude His Majesties said Remembrancer of or from the writing forth Process for or upon any His Majesties Debts Duties Outlawries or other charge whatsoever or Process of Levari facias at the prosecution of any person or persons to levy the Issues or Profits of any Lands or Tenements seised or to be seised into the Kings hands or Process of Venditioni exponas for Goods seised or to be seised upon any Debt to His Majesty His Heirs or Successors or upon any Outlawry or to alter or change the Pleadings or other Procéedings heretofore used and accustomed in the said Office upon any Pleadings touching the said Debts Duties and Seisures or any of them whatsoever And that no Debt Duty Fine Amerciament or Seisure whatsoever which shall be charged in the said great Roll of the Pipe upon any person whatsoever by or from any Record Process or Procéeding had made filed or recorded in the Office of His Majesties Remembrancer of his Exchequer nor any Process or Procéeding thereupon to be had or made by vertue of this Act shall be respited stayed mitigated extenuated compounded or otherwise discharged but by Order Warrant or Iudgment made filed or entred in the said Office of His Majesties Remembrancer where the original of such Debt Duty or Charge as aforesaid is and remaineth And that in case any Process of Summons of the Pipe have béen or shall be awarded for or upon any such Debt Duty Fine Amerciament or Seisure whatsoever and the same Debt Duty Fine Amerciament or Seisure shall not upon such Summons of the Pipe be levied or answered unto His Majesty That then the Clerk of the Pipe or Engrosser of the Great Roll shall the next Term after the return of such Summons certifie the same in a Schedule into the Office of His Majesties Remembrancer aforesaid to the end that further Process may be from thence written forth for the Levying and Answering thereof And that this Act or any thing therein contained shall not extend unto nor be construed to be prejudicial to His Majesties Remembrancer in His Exchequer in any just ancient and lawful Fées by him claimed or belonging or incident to His Office and usually had and received by him or his Predecessors Any thing in this Act contained to the contrary in any wise notwithstanding The conttnuance This Act to continue to the end of the first Session of the next Parliament and no longer CAP. XXII For Preventing of Theft and Rapine upon the Northern Borders of England VVHereas a great number of Lewd Disorderly and Lawless Persons being Thieves and Robbers who are commonly called Moss-Troopers have successively for many and sundry years last past béen bred resided in and frequented the borders of the two respective Counties of Northumberland and Cumberland and the next adjacent parts of Scotland and they taking the opportunity of the large waste Grounds Heaths and Mosses and the many intricate and dangerous Wayes and By-paths in those parts do usually after the most notorious Crimes committed by them escape over from the one Kingdom into the other respectively and so avoid the hand of Iustice in regard the Offences done and perpetrated in the one Kingdom cannot be punished in the other And whereas since the time of the late unhappy distractions such Offences and Offenders as aforesaid have excéedingly more increased and abounded and the several Inhabitants of the said respective Counties have béen for divers years last past necessitated at their own frée and voluntary charge to maintain several Parties of Horse for the necessary defence of their Persons Families and Goods and to the end the aforesaid evil and pernicious members might be apprehended and brought to Iudgment And whereas the most part of the Inhabitants of the said Counties being more remote from the Borders then other parts and consequently not so much exposed to imminent dangers as others are therefore unwilling to contribute their proportionable parts of the aforesaid Charge and yet notwithstanding it cannot probably or possibly be avoided but that those Inhabitants of the respective Counties who hold themselves most secure must certainly sustain much damage and detriment in their Goods and Estates in case the aforesaid Moss-Troopers be not timely suppressed but suffered to grow numerous strong and potent which they must néeds do in case there be no restraint upon them Be it Enacted by the Kings most Excellent Majesty by and with the Advice and Consent of the Lords Spirituall and Temporall and Commons in this present Parliament Assembled
and by Authority thereof that from and after the Feast of St. Michael the Arch-angel which shall be in the year of our Lord One thousand six hundred sixty and two for and during the term of Five years next ensuing the date of this present Act it shall and may be lawful for the respective Iustices of Peace of the said respective Counties or the major part of them at any General Sessions of the Peace to be holden for the said Counties respectively on the behalf of the said Counties or either of them from time to time as they shall sée occasion to make an Order in open Court of Sessions for charging according to their several Proportions all and every the several Inhabitants of the said respective Counties for the safeguard and securing of the said severall Counties and Inhabitants thereof from all injury violence spoil and rapine of the Moss-Troopers aforesaid Provided That the said County of Northumberland be not by force of this Act at any time charged above the sum of Five hundred pounds in the year nor the said County of Cumberland charged above the sum of two hundred pounds in the year And for this end and purpose the said several Iustices of Peace of the respective Counties aforesaid are hereby impowred and authorized at any their General Quarter Sessions aforesaid to appoint and imploy from time to time if occasion require any person or persons to have the Conduct and Command of a certain number of men not excéeding the number of Thirty men in the County of Northumberland and Twelve in the County of Cumberland whereby the Malefactors aforesaid may be searched out discovered pursued apprehended and brought to tryal of the Law And all and every the said Iustices of Peace of the respective Counties aforesaid or the major part of them at any General Sessions of the Peace to be holden for the said Counties or either of them respectively are hereby further impowred and authorized by force of this present Act to make and issue forth their respective Warrants under their hands for the levying and collecting any sum or sums of money ordered to be paid for and towards the safeguard and securing of the said Counties respectively as aforesaid and to give full power to the several Constables and other Officers to raise levy and collect the said money and all and every the Inhabitants of the said several Counties according to their respective proportionable Estates in Lands or Goods by Distress and Sale of Goods rendering the overplus if there be any to the respective Owner or Owners And the said Iustices of Peace in the said several Counties or any one of them respectively are hereby also authorized to examine any Complaint made against the Collectors and Constables or any other Officers or Ministers of Iustice whatsoever or any of them or any other refractory person or persons whatsoever that at any time hereafter shall refuse neglect or fail to give obedience to this Act or shall do any act or acts in disturbance or obstruction thereof and to bind over such person or persons to the next Quarter Sessions according to the known Laws of the Land to the end such person or persons may be procéeded withall according to Iustice And the said respective Iustices of Peace as aforesaid are hereby further Impowred and Authorized on behalf of the said several Counties respectively to appoint a Treasurer to receive from the said Collectors the Moneys by them Collected and to pay over the same according to the Orders they shall receive from the said Iustices at the General Sessions of the Peace to be holden for the said respective Counties And the said Iustices are also Impowred to agrée and article with such person or persons yearly as they shall think fit to imploy in the said Service and to take sufficient Security of them for the faithful and most effectual performance thereof for the best safeguard advantage and benefit of the people according to the true intent and meaning of this Act. And in case any person or persons shall in pursuance of this Act be imployed in the Border-Service and shall at any time hereafter wilfully and corruptly or for any sinister respect whatsoever neglect or forbear to Discover or Apprehend or to bring to Tryal any of the said persons called Moss-Troopers as aforesaid and shall be convicted thereof according to Law he or they shall from thenceforth be disabled and made uncapable for ever after to manage or take upon him or them the said Imployment and to suffer such Fine and Imprisonment according to the quality of his or their offence as the Iustices of Peace at their General Sessions shall think fit to inflict Provided nevertheless and be it hereby Declared That it shall be lawful for the Iustices of Peace of either of the said Counties as aforesaid respectively at any time hereafter to moderate or lessen the said charge if they sée cause Provided that this Act shall continue and be in force for five years and no longer Provided always and be it further Enacted by Authority aforesaid That for better suppression and punishment of the said Moss-Troopers flying out of England into Scotland or out of Scotland into England 4 Jac. cap. 1. 7 Jac. cap. 1. the Statutes made in the several Sessions of Parliament in the Fourth and Seventh years of King James shall be revived and put in execution according to their true intent 18 Car. 2. cap. 3. Continued for Seven years from the expiration of this Act. CAP. XXIII An Additionall Act concerning matter of Assurance used amongst Merchants WHereas by an Act of Parliament made in the Thrée and fortieth year of the Reign of Quéen Elizabeth of happy memory 43 El. cap. 12. Entituled An Act concerning matters of Assurances used amongst Merchants Encouragement of Merchants and Trade The Parliament then taking into Consideration by all good means to comfort and encourage the Merchants of this Kingdome thereby to advance and increase the Wealth of this Realm her Majesties Customs and the strength of shipping and for preventing of divers mischiefs in the said Act mentioned It was Enacted That it should and might be lawful for the Lord Chancellor or Lord Kéeper of the Great Seal of England for the time being to award forth under the Great Seal of England one general or standing Commission to be renewed yearly at the least and otherwise so often as unto the Lord Chancellor or Lord Kéeper should séem méet for the hearing and determining of Causes arising on Policies of Assurance such as then were or then after should be entred within the Office of Assurance of the City of London which Commissions should be directed to the Iudge of the Admiralty for the time being the Recorder of London for the time being Two Doctors of the Civil Law Two Common Lawyers and eight grave or discréet Merchants or any five of them which Commissioners or the greater part of them which
it was further Enacted That no Groats or Half-groats shall be moulten by any man to make Vessel or other thing thereof upon the same pain And whereas divers persons do elude the said Statutes as well Goldsmiths as others by melting Silver-Coyns of this Realm above the value of Groats to the great diminishing of the Silver-Coyn of this Realm and the hindrance of the Commerce of the same Be it therefore Enacted by the Kings most Excellent Majesty by and with the Advice and Consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal and the Commons in this present Parliament assembled and by Authority of the same That no person or persons whatsoever shall after the Twentieth day of December One thousand six hundred sixty two None shall melt currant Silver Money The Penalty wilfully melt or cause to be melted any of the currant Silver-money of this Realm upon pain not only of forfeiture of the same but also of the double value of any such Coyn so melted the one half to his Majesty his Heirs and Successors the other half to the Informers who shall sue for the same upon Action of Debt Bill Plaint or Information in any of His Majesties Courts at Westminster in which no Essoign Wager of Law or Protection shall be allowed And moreover That the said person or persons offending contrary to the Tenor of this Act if he or they be a Fréeman or Fréemen or priviledged person or persons of any City or Corporation within this Kingdom of England shall upon legal conviction for the same be forthwith disfranchised and made uncapable of exercising the Trade of a Goldsmith or any other Mystery by vertue of the Priviledges of the City or Corporation of which he or they are members And if the said person or persons offending and convict as aforesaid shall not be a Fréeman or Fréemen or priviledged person or persons of any City or Corporation as aforesaid then he or they shall suffer imprisonment without Bail or Mainprize for the space of Six moneths next ensuing his or their Conviction as aforesaid CAP. XXXII The Manufacture of Broad Woollen Cloth within the West-Riding of the County of York Regulated WHereas divers abuses and deceits have of late years béen had and used in the Manufacture of Broad Woollen Cloth made within the West-Riding of the County of York and the spinning and deceitful working thereof which tends to the great debasing and undervaluation of the said Manufacture both at home and also in Forreign parts where the same is usually vended For prevention of all which abuses and deceipts It is Enacted by the Kings most Excellent Majesty by the Advice and Consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal and Commons Assembled in Parliament That from and after the next Monday after Easter which shall be in the year of our Lord God One thousand six hundred sixty and two there be and shall be a Corporation to continue for ever within the said West-Riding of the County of York consisting of all the Iustices of the Peace of the said West-Riding for the time being A Corporation of Clothiers in the West-Riding of Yorkshire Two Masters Ten Wardens Twelve Assistants and Commonalty All which said Masters Wardens and Assistants are to be of the ablest and best experienced Clothiers within the said West-Riding and such as have served and béen brought up in the Trade and Mystery of Clothing by the space of seven years according to the Laws and Statutes of this Realm One of which said Masters Five of which said Wardens and Six of which said Assistants shall be chosen the first Monday after Pentecost then next following and from thenceforth to be yearly and every year chosen upon the next Monday after Pentecost at some publique place by the Frée Clothiers of the said West-Riding inhabiting within the Parish of Leeds in the said County of York the greater part of them present at such Election and the other Master Five Wardens and Six Assistants shall be chosen upon the same days at some publique place by the Frée Clothiers inhabiting out of the said Town and Parish of Leeds or the greater part of them present at the said Election of the parts adjacent within the said West-Riding And in case any of the said Masters Wardens and Assistants after their said respective Elections do happen to die that then it shall and may be lawful at any Court to be holden next after such Decease to Elect others in their respective places And the said Wardens Masters and Assistants respectively shall within eight days after their first Choice and Election take the Oaths of Allegiance and Supremacy which any two Iustices of the Peace within the West-Riding whereof one to be of the Quorum have hereby power to Administer and also the ensuing Oath Viz. I A. B. do swear The Oath to be taken by the Master Wardens and Assistants That I will well faithfully and honestly perform and discharge the Office of a Master of the Corporation of the Free Clothiers according to the best of my Skill Power and Knowledge So help me God And the like Oath and Oaths to be Administred to the Wardens and Assistants respectively mutatis mutandis And for ever after the said Iustices of the Peace Masters Wardens and Assistants and their Successors or any Thirtéen of them shall and have hereby power to Administer the like Oath or Oaths to such Officer or Officers faithfully and honestly to perform and discharge his and their said Office and Offices to which he or they are and shall be so chosen by this Act at any Court to be by them holden in manner hereafter declared And it is further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That the said Iustices of the Peace Who shall be of the said Corporation for ever and how called Masters Wardens and Assistants for the time being together with the said Frée Clothiers of the said West-Riding shall for ever hereafter in name and in fact be one Body Politique and Corporate in Law to all intents and purposes and shall have a perpetual Succession and be called by the name of the Supervisors Masters Wardens Assistants and Commonalty of the Trade or Mysterie of Clothiers for the well making of Broad Woollen Cloth within the West-Riding of the County of York and that they shall be enabled to Plead and Sue and to be Sued and Impleaded by that name in all Courts and Places of Iudicature within this Kingdom And by that name shall and may without Licence in Mortmain purchase take or receive any Lands Tenements or Hereditameats of the Gift Alienation or Demise of any person or persons who are hereby without further Licence enabled to transfer the same and any Goods and Chattels whatsoever for the use and benefit of the Corporation aforesaid not excéeding the yearly value of Two hundred pounds And for the better Regulation of the said Goverment of the said Trade and Manufacture the said Iustices of the Peace Masters
Wardens and Assistants for the time being or any Thirtéen of them whereof there shall be One of the said Iustices or One of the said Masters at the least alwayes present shall have Times and places of their meeting and hereby have Power and Authority from time to time to méet and kéep Court upon the first Saturday in every moneth in every year for the ends in this Act mentioned within the said Town of Leeds at the place commonly called or known by the name of the Sessions-House or Common Hall in Leeds aforesaid And also at such other time and place of the said West-Riding as shall from time to time be appointed by the said Iustices Masters Wardens and Assistants or any Thirtéen of them upon eight days notice or warning to be given of such méeting and Court to be held And in case that the Masters Wardens and Assistants or the major part of them shall refuse or neglect to appear so as a Court cannot be holden accordingly as is before directed That then such Master Warden or Assistant so refusing or neglecting shall forfeit the sum of Twenty shillings the one moyetie to the use of the Poor of such respective Town where the person so refusing or neglecting shall live the other moyetie to the use of the Corporation And the said Iustices Masters Wardens and Assistants or any Thirtéen of them are hereby impowered to summon to appear at the said Courts to be held as aforesaid so many of the said Clothiers as they shall in their discretions think méet for the better ordering the Affairs of the said Trade who are hereby required to appear upon such Summons the number of which Persons so Summoned shall not be under Eight and forty And in case of neglect or refusal are to forfeit to the use of the said Corporation the sum of Ten Groats for every default of not appearing to be levied as is hereafter directed And the said Iustices Masters Wardens and Assistants or any Thirtéen of them whereof One of the said Iustices or One of the said Masters to be present as aforesaid shall have Power to appoint a Comon Seal and to make orders and By-laws and hereby have Power and Authority from time to time to make and appoint a Common Seal for the use of the said Corporation and to Make and Ordain By-laws Rules and Ordinances for and concerning the better Spinning Working Making Fulling and Milling of Wollen Cloth as in their Iudgements and Discretions may tend to the good Credit and Advancement of the said Trade and Manufacture the same not being contrary to Law which By-laws Rules and Ordinances being Ratified and Confirmed by the Iustices of Assize to be holden for the County of York shall be Published Four times in the year at the least at Four publique méetings or Courts viz Vpon the first Saturday in June the first Saturday in September the first Saturday in December and the first Saturday in March and shall be obeyed and kept by the several persons within and under the said Regulation or Corporation Penalty for not Conforming to By-laws And the said Courts constituted as aforesaid shall have and hereby have power to impose a Fine and Penalty upon any person or persons of the said Corporation or Regulation being a Clothier that shall not conform to such Rules Orders and Ordinances so made as aforesaid Prouided That the said Fine or Penalty of any person for not conforming as aforesaid excéed not the sum of Twenty shillings for one offence the full moyety or one half of the said Fines and Penalties to go to the use of the said Corporation and the other half or moyetie to the use of the Poor of the Parish where such person so offending may be dwelling and inhabiting And be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That the said Iustices Masters Power to appoint searchers of Cloth Wardens and Assistants or any thirtéen of them shall have power to nominate and choose Searchers of Cloth in the several places of the said West-Riding who shall be sworn before them or any thirtéen of them in manner aforesaid for the true searching of Cloth that it be of a due weight length and breadth according to the Statute And in regard the nature of Cloth is much changed in these late years and that the new Drapery is now most in use for which sort of Cloth there is no certain Standard for length weight The new Drapery most in use and breadth appointed by any Statute Be it therefore Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That the length weight and breadth of the said new Draperies of broad Woollen Cloth made within the said West-Riding be and shall be as is hereby limited and appointed viz That every Cloth called by the name of an End or half Cloth shall be betwixt fiftéen yards and eightéen yards in length in the water and not to excéed and one yard and an half in breadth at the least within the Lists And every Cloth Commonly called a Short Cloth betwéen twenty four yards and twenty eight yards in length in the water and not to excéed and one yard and an half in breadth at the least within the Lists And every Long Cloth so called betwixt thirty yards and thirty six yards in length in the water not to excéed a yard and an half in breadth at the least within the Lists And that every yard of such Cloth shall weigh respectively two pounds and a quarter accounting sixtéen Ounces to the pound being well thicked scoured misled and fully dryed And that the said Searcher shall according to his Oath duly try and examine by weight or by water all broad Woollen Cloths of what sort soever made within the said West-riding and shall affix thereunto a Seal of Lead expressing the true length and weight thereof And in case any of the said Cloths be found faulty upon trial and examination the said Iustices Masters Wardens and Assistants or any thirtéen of them shall have power to impose such Fine and Penalty upon the Offenders as by the Laws and Statutes of this Realm in that behalf are or ought to be imposed upon them for such defaults the one third part of all such Fines and Penalties to be disposed of to the use of such Searcher or Searchers certifying the said Default of Length Weight or Breadth and the other two parts to the Poor of the Parish where such offence shall be committed to be recovered in such manner as is limited and appointed by the Statute made in the One and twentieth Year of the late King James Ch. 18. And that all and every such Searcher and Searchers so chosen as aforesaid 21 Jac. cap. 18. shall before he or they enter upon the execution of the said Office take the Oaths of Allegiance and Supremacy and also the Oath ensuing which Oath the Iustices Masters Wardens and Assistants or any thirtéen of them as aforesaid have
beyond the Seas any Letters Founded or Cast nor shall buy any such Letters for Printing Printing-Presses or other Materials belonging unto Printing unless he or they respectively shall first acquaint the said Master and Wardens of the said Company of Stationers for the time being or some or one of them for whom the same Presses Iron-work or Letters are to be made forged cast brought or imported upon pain that every person who shal erect any such Printing-Press or shal demise or let any House or Room or suffer the same to be held or used and every person who shall make any Printing-Press or any Iron-work for a Printing-Press or shall make import or buy any Letters for Printing without giving notice as aforesaid shall forfeit for every such offence the sum of Five pounds the one Moyety whereof shal be to the use of our Soveraign Lord the King His Heirs and Successors and the other Moyety to the use of such person or persons as shall sue for the same Who and how many shall be Master Printers And be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That for the time to come no man shall be admitted to be a Master-Printer until they who are now actually Master-Printers shall be by death or otherwise reduced to the number of Twenty and from thenceforth the number of Twenty Master-Printers shall be continued and no more besides the Kings Printers and the Printers allowed for the Vniversities to have the use and exercise of Printing of Books at one time and but Four Master Founders of Letters for Printing The which said Master-Printers and Four Master Founders of Letters for Printing shall be nominated appointed and allowed by the Lord Archbishop of Canterbury and Lord Bishop of London for the time being And in case of Death of any one of the said Four Master Founders of Letters or of the said Master Printers or of Forfeiture or avoidance of any of their places and priviledges to Print by vertue of this Act Master Founders of letters for Printing for any Offence contrary to the same or otherwise That then the Lord Archbishop of Canterbury and Lord Bishop London for the time being or one of them shall nominate and appoint such other fit person or persons to succéed and supply the place of such Master Printer or Founder of Letters as shall be void by Death Forfeiture or otherwise as aforesaid And every person and persons which shall hereafter be allowed or permitted to have the use of a Printing-Press or Printing-House upon or before such his allowance obtained shall become bound with Sureties to his Majesty in the Court of Kings-Bench or before some one or more of the Iustices of Assize or the Iustices of the Peace at their several Quarter-Sessions in the sum of Thrée hundred pounds not to print or suffer to be printed in his house or press any Book or Books whatsoever but such as shall from time to time be lawfully Licensed And be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid Who only may keep above two Printing-Presses That none of the said Master Printers so to be allowed from time to time as aforesaid shall kéep above Two Printing-Presses at once unlesse he hath béen Master or Vpper-Warden of the Company who are hereby allowed to kéep Thrée Presses and no more unless for some great and special occasion for the Publique he or they have for a time leave of the said Lord Archbishop of Canterbury or Lord Bishop of London for the time being or to have or use one or more above the aforesaid Number as their Lordships or either of them shall think fit And be it also Enacted by the Authority aforesaid What number of Apprentices they may retain That no Printer or Printers Except the Kings Printers nor Founder or Founders of Letters for printing shall take or retain any more or greater number of Apprentices then is herein after limited and appointed that is to say Every Master Printer and Master Founder of Letters for Printing that is or hath béen Master or Vpper Warden of his Company may have thrée Apprentices at one time and no more And every Master Printer and Master Founder of Letters for Printing that is of the Livery of his Company may have two Apprentices at one time and no more And every Master Printer and Master Founder of Letters for printing of the Yeomanry of his Company may have one Apprentice at one time and no more neither by Copartnership binding at the Scriveners nor any other way whatsoever Neither shall it be lawful for any Master Printer or Master Founder of Letters when any Apprentice or Apprentices shall run or be put away to take another Apprentice or other Apprentices in his or their place or places unless the name or names of him or them so gone away be rased out of the Hall-Book and never admitted again And because a great part of the secret printing in corners hath béen caused for want of Orderly Imployment for Iourneymen-Printers The said several Master Printers Iourney-men Printers and Founders of Letters to be imployed and Master Founders of Letters for printing so to be allowed as aforesaid are hereby required to take special Care that all Iourney-men-Printers and Iourney-men-Founders of Letters for printing who are lawfully Frée of the said respective Mysteries be set to Work and Imployed in their respective Trades And if any such Iourney-man-Printer or Iourney-man-Founder of Letters being of honest and good behaviour and able in his Trade do want Imployment he shall repair to any of the said Master Printers or Master Founders of Letters respectively for the time being who thereupon shall receive him or them into Work If such Master Printer or Master Founder of Letters have not a Iourney-man already although such Master Printer or Master Founder of Letters respectively with his Apprentice or Apprentices be able without the help of the said Iourney-man to discharge his own Work upon pain that every Master Printer and Master Founder of Letters respectively refusing to receive such Iourney-man repairing to him as aforesaid shall forfeit Five pounds to be recovered by Bill Plaint or Information in any Court of Record wherein no Essoign Wager at Law Priviledge or Protection shall be admitted the Moyety of which Forfeiture shall go to the Kings Majesty his Heirs and Successors and the other Moyety to the Informer who shall sue for the same within six moneths next after the said offence committed And if any Iourney-man or Iourney-men Printers or Founders of Letters for printing shall refuse imployment being offered to him or them by any Master Printer or Master Founder of Letters respectively or neglect it when he or they have undertaken it he or they so refusing or neglecting shall suffer Thrée moneths Imprisonment at the least without Bail or Mainprize upon Conviction of such his said refusal or neglect by two Witnesses before any one or more Iustice or Iustices of the Peace who
the Twentieth day of November One thousand six hundred sixty and one but they and every of them may sell Books and Papers as they have or did before the said Twentieth day of November One thousand six hundred sixty one within the said Hall Palace and Twenty yards aforesaid but not elsewhere Any thing in this Act to the contrary in any wise notwithstanding Proviso for the rights and Priviledges of printing granted to any persons by the King Provided also That neither this Act nor any thing therein contained shall extend to prejudice the just Rights or Priviledges granted by His Majesty or any of His Royal Predecessors to any any person or persons under His Majesties Great Seal or otherwise but that such person or persons may exercise and use such Rights and Priviledges as aforesaid according to their respective Grants Any thing in this Act to the contrary notwithstanding Proviso for John Streater Stationer Provided also That neither this Act nor any thing therein contained shall extend to prohibit John Streater Stationer from printing Books and Papers but that he may still follow the Art and Mystery of Printing as if this Act had never béen made Any thing therein to the contrary notwithstanding Provided also That neither this Act nor any thing therein contained shall extend to restrain the kéeping and using of a Printing-Press in the City of York Proviso for the City of York so as all Books of Divinity there printed be first Licensed by the Archbishop of York for the time being or such person or persons whom he shall appoint and all other Books whatsoever there Printed be first Licensed by such persons respectively to whom the Licensing thereof doth or shall appertain by the Rules herein before mentioned and so as no Bibles be there printed nor any other Book whereof the Original Copy is or shall be belonging to the Company of Stationers in London or any Member thereof and so as the Archbishop or Lord Mayor of York for the time being do execute within the said City which they are hereby impowred to do all the Powers and Rules in this Act concerning Searchers for unlicensed Books and impose and levy the said penalties in the like cases Any thing in this Act to the contrary notwithstanding Provided That this Act shall continue and be in force for two years The continuance of this Act. to commence from the Tenth of June One thousand six hundred sixty and two and no longer Continued 16 Car. 2. cap. 8. Anno XV. Caroli II. Regis CAP. I. For Repairing the High-ways within the Counties of Hertford Cambridge and Huntington WHereas the ancient High-way and Post-Road leading from London to York The High-way from London to York and Scotland Hertford Cambridge Huntington and so into Scotland and likewise from London into Lincolnshire lieth for many miles in the Counties of Hertford Cambridge and Huntington in many of which places the Road by reason of the great and many Loads which are wéekly drawn in Waggons through the said places as well by reason of the great Trade of Barley and Mault that cometh to Ware and so is conveyed by water to the City of London as other Carriages both from the North parts as also from the City of Norwich Saint Edmunds-Bury and the Town of Cambridge to London is very ruinous and become almost impassible insomuch that it is become very dangerous to all His Majesties Liege people that pass that way And for that the ordinary course appointed by the Laws and Statutes of this Realm is not sufficient for the effectual repairing and amending of the same neither are the Inhabitants through which the said Road doth lie of ability to Repair the same without some other provision of moneys to be raised towards the putting the same into good and sufficient Repair For remedy whereof and to the intent the said High-ways at or in the Counties aforesaid may be forthwith effectually repaired and amended and from time to time hereafter kept in good repair May it please your Majesty that it may be Enacted And be it Enacted by the Kings most Excellent Majesty by and with the Advice and Consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal and the Commons in this present Parliament assembled and by the Authority of the same That for the Surveying Ordering Repairing and kéeping in Repair of the said High-way in the Counties aforesaid Four Iustices of the Peace for each of the said several and respective Counties dwelling next to the said High-ways respectively or any two of them for the year One thousand six hundred sixty thrée and until the Quarter-Sessions then next ensuing and from thenceforth the Iustices of Peace at the Sessions to be holden next after Easter every year for the said respective Counties from time to time shall and are hereby impowred to nominate and appoint Nine sufficient and able persons residing and inhabiting within the said several and respective Counties Who may appoint Surveyors of the High-ways for Hartfordshire yearly Cambridg-shire Huntington-shire to be Surveyors of the several places in the said High-way for the year from thence next ensuing The Iustices of the Peace for the County of Hertford to appoint Surveyors for the High-way lying in the said several Towns and Parishes of the said County and the Iustices of the Peace in the County of Cambridge to appoint Surveyors for the several Towns and Parishes within their said County of Cambridge And the Iustices of Peace for the County of Huntington to appoint Surveyors for the several Towns and Parishes of the said County And that the said Iustices or Surveyors aforesaid shall not act or do any thing towards the Repairs of the said High-ways but in their own several and respective Counties The power of the Iustices of the Peace in their several Counties And that the said Iustices in their several Counties shall cause notice to be given to the several Surveyors so chosen in writing of their said choice which said Surveyors and every of them having no lawful impediment to be allowed by the said Iustices by whom they shall be chosen in manner as aforesaid within one wéek next after such notice to them given of their Election shall and are hereby required to méet and assemble themselves together that is to say the Surveyors for the County of Hertford in some convenient place within the County of Hertford Hertford Cambridge Huntington And the Surveyors chosen for the County of Cambridge in some convenient place within their County and the Surveyors chosen for the County of Huntington in some convenient place within their said County to be appointed by the several Iustices of the said Counties at their several Quarter-Sessions to the intent to view and Survey the said High-way and places aforesaid The Power of the Surveyors in the said several Counties To appoint Receivers and Collectors of Toll and other needful Officers and shall consider what Reparations
shall be néedful for Repairing of the several High-ways and places aforesaid and the said several Surveyors in their respective Counties shall provide Stones Gravel and other materials and necessaries to be used for and towards the Repairing and amending the said High-way at the places aforesaid And the said Surveyors or thrée or more of them in their respective Counties being so met and assembled are hereby authorized to appoint a Receiver or Collector of Toll and such other Officer and Officers as they shall find necessary in their respective Counties for carrying on the said Work with such moderate allowance as shall be thought fit to be approved of by any two or more Iustices of the Peace for the said respective County for which such Officer is so chosen living near to the said High-way or places aforesaid or otherwise to be removed and other fit person or persons to be chosen in his or their places by the said Iustices in the said several and respective Counties And for the better effecting thereof Be it Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That the said Surveyors or any thrée or more of them in their several Counties Charging of Carts and Carriages shall from time to time as they shall sée cause appoint and require all and every person and persons inhabiting within thrée miles of the places aforesaid being within their several and respective Counties who by any Law or Statute of this Realm now in force is or are chargeable to find any Wayn or Cart for the amending of the High-ways and every other person and persons chargeable to labour in the High-ways upon reasonable notice to send his or their Cart or Wain and Team or to come to labour in the said High-way at any the places aforesaid within their respective Counties so furnished as by the Laws and Statutes of this Realm is directed for the amending of other High-ways when and so often as the said Surveyors for their said several Counties Allowance of wages to labourers and owners or any thrée or more of them shall think néedful and appoint for which the said Surveyors shall pay unto such Labourers and to the owners of such Teams Carts and Wayns according to the usual rate of the Countrey And in case any person so charged to send his her or their Team to work as aforesaid shall refuse or neglect so to do such persons so refusing or neglecting The Penalty for refusing shall forfeit Ten shillings for every day that he or they shall make such default and every Labourer Eightéen pence for every day he shall neglect or refuse to work as aforesaid How far and often Carts and carriages may be charged Provided That no person or persons by vertue of this Act be compelled or compellable to labour or to send his or their Team Cart or Waggon for the mending of the said High-way to any of the said places being above Thrée miles distant from his Dwelling-house or not in the same County nor to labour or send his or their Team Cart or Waggon for amending of the said High-way above Thrée days in any one wéek nor at any time in Séed-time Hay or Corn-harvest Who may determine differences about carriages and labourers Wages And in case that any question shall happen to arise touching the hire to be given by the said Surveyors for such Team Cart or Waggon or concerning the wages of such Labourers imployed in mending the said High-ways That then the said Iustices of the Peace in the County where such difference ariseth or any Two or more of them shall and may determine and set down what hire for such Team Cart or Waggon and also what wages to such Labourer shall be paid or allowed by the said Surveyors and such Order in that behalf to be made shall conclude all parties And be further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That where there is not sufficient Gravel Chalk Sand or Stones within any Parish Town Village or Hamlet wherein the said High-way How gravell Chalk Stones c. may be taken or places aforesaid or any of them do lie to repair the said High-way at any of the places aforesaid It shall and may be lawful for the said Surveyors in their several and respective Counties or any thrée or more of them and such person and persons as they shall appoint to dig take and carry away Gravel Chalk Sand or Stones out of the Waste or Common of any neighbouring Parish Town Village or Hamlet without paying any thing for the same for the repairing or amending of the said High-way at any the places aforesaid or where there is not sufficient of such materials in any Common or Waste Ground thereunto near adjoyning to dig in the several grounds of any person or persons not being an House Garden Orchard Yard or Park stored with Déer being within any Parish chargeable towards the repairs of the said High-way and places so to be repaired where any such materials are or may be found And from time to time to carry away such and so much thereof as the said Surveyors or any thrée or more of them in their respective Counties shall adjudge necessary for the said Reparations without paying any thing for such materials saving only such reasonable satisfaction to the Owner or Occupier of the Ground where the same shall be so digged carried away as for the damage he or they shall thereby sustain to be assessed and adjudged by the said Iustices of the County where the same is digged at the next or any other Quarter-Sessions for the said County in case of difference concerning the same And that the Pits and places where and from whence such materials shall be dugg and carried away for the Reparations aforesaid shall with all convenient spéed to be adjudged by the said Iustices of Peace as aforesaid be filled up and levelled with earth or other materials or else rayled about so as that the same may not be déemed dangerous or prejudicial to man or beast And for the defraying of the charge of such Reparations to be done in the places aforesaid Be it further Enacted That from and after the choice of the Surveyors aforesaid it shall and may be lawful to and for the said Surveyors for the time being with such consent and approbation as is aforesaid Who may appoint the taking of Toll or Custom of all carriages and passengers of the said Iustices of the several Counties within their own Counties and not elsewhere to choose and appoint one or more fit person or persons to receive or take such sum or sums of money in the name of Toll or Custom to be paid for all such Horses Carts Coaches Waggons Droves and Gangs of Cattel as in time to come shall pass be led or droven in or through the said way or places aforesaid as are hereafter by this Act limited and appointed that is to say for every Horse one peny for every Coach six
Vnderwoods Poles or young Trées or Bark or Bast of any Trées or any Gates Stiles Posts Pales Rails or Hedge-wood Broom or Furze and wheresoever they find any such to apprehend and cause to be apprehended all and every person and persons suspected for the cutting and taking of the same and them and every of them as well those apprehended carrying or any ways conveying any kind of Wood Vnderwood Poles or young Trées or Bark or Bast of any Trées or any Eates Stiles Posts Pales Rails or Hedge-wood Broom or Furze as also those in whose Houses or other places belonging to them any such Wood Vnder-wood Poles or young Trées or Bark or Bast of any Trées or any Gates Stiles Posts Pales Rails or Hedgwood Broom or Furze shall be found to carry before one Iustice of the Peace of the same County City or Town-Corporate And if the said person and persons so suspected apprehended and carried before the said Iustices do not then and there give a good account how he and they came by such Wood or Vnderwood Poles or young Trées or Bark or Bast of any Trées or Gates Stiles Posts Pales Rails or Hedge-wood Broom or Furze by the consent of the Owner such as shall satisfie the said Iustice or else shall not within some convenient time to be set them by the said Iustice produce the party or parties of whom they bought the same wood Vnder-wood Poles or young Trées or Bark or Bast of Trées Gates Stiles Posts Pales Rails or Hedge-wood Broom or Furze or some other credible witnesse to depose upon Oath such sale of the said Wood Vnder-wood Poles or young Trées or Bark or Bast of Trées Gates Stiles Posts Pales Rails or Hedgwood Broom or Furze which Oath the said Iustice hath hereby power to administer That then the said person or persons so suspected and not giving such good account nor producing any such witnesse upon Oath to testifie the said Sale as aforesaid shall be déemed and adjudged as convicted of the said offence of cutting and spoiling of the same Woods Vnder-woods Poles or young Trées or Bark or Bast of Trées Gates Stiles Posts Pales Rails or Hedge-wood Broom 43 Eliz. cap. 7. or Furze within the meaning of the said Statute of Quéen Elizabeth and shall be liable to the punishment therein contained and to such other procéedings and punishments as by this present Act shall be further constituted and appointed on that behalf And be it therefore Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That all and every person or persons convicted of the said offence in manner and form before in this Act mentioned shall for the first offence give the Owner or Owners such recompence or satisfaction for his or their damages The punishment for the first offence and within such time as the said Iustice shall appoint and over and above pay down presently unto the Overséers for the use of the poor of the Parish where the said offence or offences were committed such sum of money not excéeding Ten shillings as the said Iustices shall think méet and if such offender or offenders do not make recompence or satisfaction to the said Owner or Owners and also pay the said sum to the Poor in manner and form aforesaid then the said Iustice shall commit the said offender or offenders to the House of Correction for such time as the said Iustice shall think fit not excéeding one moneth or to be whipped by the Constable The second offence or other Officer as in his Iudgment shall séem expedient And if such person or persons shall again commit the said offence and be thereof convicted as before that then they and every of them so offending the second time and thereof so convicted shall be sent to the House of Correction for one moneth and be there kept to hard labour And if such person or persons shall again commit the said offence and be thereof convicted as before That then they and every of them so offending the third time and thereof so convicted shall be taken adjudged and déemed as Incorrigible Rogues Buyers of stoln Wood how to be dealt withal Provided always And it is further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That whosoever shall buy any Burthens of Wood or any Poles or Sticks of Wood or any other the Premisses particularly mentioned in this Bill which may be justly suspected to have béen stoln or unlawfully come by That it shall and may be lawful to and for the said Iustices of the Peace Mayors Bayliffs and Head-Officers or any one of them within their respective Iurisdictions upon complaint to them thereof made to examine the said matter upon Oath which they and every of them respectively are hereby authorized to administer And if they shall find that the same was bought of a person who might iustly be suspected to have stoln or unlawfully come by the same and that the same was stoln or unlawfully come by That in such case the said Iustices of Peace Mayors Bayliffs or other Head-Officers or any one of them respectively shall and may award the party who bought the same to pay treble the value of the same to the party from whom the same was stoln or unlawfully taken And in default of present payment thereof to issue forth their respective Warrants to levy the same by distress and sale of the offenders Goods rendring the overplus to the party And in default of such distress to commit the party to the Gaol at his own charge there to remain one moneth without Bail Provided always Within what time offenders must be questioned within this Act. That no person or persons shall be questioned for any offence upon this Law that hath béen punished for the same offence by any former Law nor shall be punished by this Law unless he be questioned within Six wéeks after the offence committed CAP. III. An Act to explain and supply a former Act for distribution of Threescore thousand pounds amongst the truly Loyal and Indigent Commission-Officers and for Assessing of Offices and distributing the moneys thereby raised for their further supply 14 Car. 2. cap. 8. EXP. CAP. IV. An Additional Act for the better Ordering the Forces in the several Counties of this Kingdom FOr the better Ordering of the Forces in the several Counties and places of England and the Dominion of Wales and Town of Berwick upon Tweed and for the supplying and explaining the late Act Entituled 14 Car. 2. cap. 3. An Act for Ordering the Forces in the several Counties of this Kingdom Be it Enacted by the Kings most Excellent Majesty by and with the Advice and Consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal and the Commons in this present Parliament assembled and by the Authority of the same Power of the Lieutenants and Deputy-Lieutenants to Train and Exercise That the several Lieutenants of the several Counties Cities and places nominated by his Majesty his Heirs and Successors respectively and in their absence out
and imposed by vertue of this Act for preservation of the said Great Level from drowning And whereas the persons now in possession of the said last mentioned Shares Lots Parts and Proportions of the said Ninety five thousand acres whereof pretended Estates and Conveyances were taken contracted for or accepted of as aforesaid do pretend that they or those under whom they do respectively claim and derive their right title or pretensions to the said Shares Lots Parts and Proportions respectively have laid out and disbursed for Taxes for and towards the maintenance preservation and repair of the works of the said Great Level heretofore Erected by the Earl Francis and his Participants and for and towards their erection of new and necessary works for the better and more effectual Dreyning of the said Great Level and for building upon the said Shares Lots Parts and Proportions more moneys then the cléer rents issues and profits of the said Shares Lots Parts and Proportions have amounted to since the said respective pretended Estates and Conveyances were first taken contracted for accepted as aforesaid Be it therefore Enacted by the Authority aforesaid And it is hereby Enacted That the Chief Iustice of the Court of Kings Bench the Chief Iustice of the Court of Common-Pleas The Chief Iustice of the Kings bench and others made a Iudicature to hear and determine differences the Chief Baron of the Court of Exchequer and the Iustices of the said Court of Common-Pleas for the time being or any two or more of them are hereby constituted appointed and erected a Iudicature or Commissioners to Hear Order Iudge Decrée and Determine upon Bills and Answers to be Exhibited or otherwise as they shall think fit betwéen the said persons who are now in the Possession of the said respective Shares Lots Parts and Proportions and the respective Heirs and Assigns of the said persons now in possession as aforesaid And the said Sir Richard Onslow and other the said Assignées and Trustées of the said Henry late Earl of Arundel and Surrey deceased Arthur Earl of Anglesey Thomas Lord Culpepper the said Samuel Sandys the elder or his Trustées Sir William Terringham Robert Phillips Robert Scawen and the said other persons Participants of the said Earl Francis and their respective Heirs and Assigns who are now out of the possession of the said Shares Lots Parts and Proportions respectively and to whom respective Estates are by vertue of this Act to be executed of the same as aforesaid And the said Iudicature or Commissioners or any two or more of them are hereby authorized out of the said Shares Lots Parts and Proportions to Order Adjudge Decrée and Determine to either of the said Parties respectively such recompence and allowance as they the said Iudicature or Commissioners or any two or more of them shall see cause And for the better enabling the said Iudicature or Commissioners to procéed to the hearing ordering adjudging decréeing and determining and for putting in due and spéedy execution such Order Iudgement Decrée and Determination as they or any two or more of them shall make betwéen the said parties It is hereby further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That they the said Iudicature or Commissioners or any two or more of them shall have such and the like power and authority as the High Court of Chancery hath in cases before the said Court depending and for putting in execution the Decrées of the said Court. The power and authority of the said Iudicature And to the end that the said Iudicature may be the better enabled to Iudge of the Rights and Pretensions of either party Be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That in every Decrée or Determination which they shall make by vertue and in pursuance of this Act they shall have regard to the sum and sums of money actually disbursed and expended by either party in the Works of Dreyning the said Great Level Directions for their decrees and proceedings and in the preservation and reparation of the same and also to the respective Times of such Disbursements and expence defalking thereout such sum and sums of money as have béen received by either party their Tenants or Assigns for the Rents Issues and Profits of the same and abating out of the Interest of the Money disbursed by either party so much as the Interest of the Money received by such party for the Rents Issues and Profits of the same doth amount unto And to the intent that the persons who by the true intent and meaning of this Act are to be put into possession of any part of the said Eighty thrée thousand acres may not by undue delayes or by any other means or pretensions be kept out of the possession of the same Be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That at any time or times after the expiration of Six moneths after the Passing of this Act it shall and may be lawful to and for the said Samuel Sandys the elder and his Trustées for him Sir Richard Onslow and others the Assignées and Trustées of Henry late Earl of Arundel and Surrey deceased Arthur Earl of Anglesey Thomas Lord Culpepper Sir William Terringham Robert Phillips and Robert Scawen their and every of their respective Heires and Assigns and to and for the Participants of the said Earl Francis Parties to the said Indenture of Fourtéen parts their and every of their respective heirs and assigns whose Lands Shares Lots Parts and Proportions of and in the said Ninety five thousand acres were sold or pretended to be sold for non-payment of Taxes by vertue of the said pretended Act of the Nine and twentieth day of May in the year of our Lord One thousand six hundred forty and nine to bring their respective Action or Actions of Trespass or Trespass and Ejectment in His Majesties Court of Kings Bench or Court of Common-Pleas at Westminster against any person or persons whatsoever possessing withholding or occupying the same although the said Governour Bayliffs and Conservators or so many and such of them as are thereunto authorized by this present Act have not or shall not execute estates pursuant to this present Act to such person or persons hereby enabled to bring such Action or Actions and such person or persons shall recover such Lands Shares Lots Parts and Proportions of the said Ninety five thousand acres as they respectivly shall make and derive title and claim unto as Participants of the said Francis Earl of Bedford parties to the said Indenture of Fourtéen parts or as the respective Heirs or Assigns of the said respective Participants parties to the said Indenture of Fourtéen parts as if the said Governour Bayliffs and Conservators had duely executed respective Estates of such respective Lands Shares Lots parts and Proportions of the said Ninety five thousand acres according to the true intent and meaning of this Act And such person or persons his and their respective Heirs and Assigns shall have and
Annuntiation of the blessed Virgin Mary by even and equal portions an exact and just Account of the numbers of all which Fire-Hearths and Stoves is thereby Enacted to be taken and returned into his Majesties Court of Exchequer And the Moneys and Revenues due and payable for the same to be collected levied and paid to his Majesty by such persons and Officers in manner and form as by the said Acts is prescribed Nevertheless by reason of some defects in the said Act and great negligence of the said Officers and other persons in not returning the exact numbers of the said Fire-Hearths and Stoves and not duly Collecting Levying and paying into his Masties Exchequer the full Revenue due for the numbers returned at the times appointed and by sundry fraudulent practises to elude the said Acts the said Revenue is much diminished and not duly answered For remedy thereof and for the better ascertaining and collecting the said Revenue for the future Be it Enacted by the Kings most Excellent Majesty by and with the Advice and Consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal and Commons in this present Parliament Assembled and by Authority of the same That it shall and may be lawful to and for the Kings Majesty his Heirs and Successors from and after the Four and twentieth day of June One thousand six hundred sixty four from time to time by and with the Advice of the Lord High Treasurer Chancellour Vnder-Treasurer and Barons of the Court of Exchequer for the time being or any thrée of them whereof the Lord High Treasurer or Chancellor of the Exchequer to be one to constitute and appoint such person or persons as his Majesty his Heirs and Successors shall think méet to be the Officer or Officers for the receiving and collecting and answering the duty arising by the said Fire-Hearths and Stoves by vertue of the said several Acts and for viewing and numbring of the several Chimney-hearths and Stoves mentioned in the said Acts and for the inspecting and examining the several Rolls Certificates and Returns thereof made and to be made from time to time into his Majesties Court of Exchequer in pursuance of the said Acts or any other thing belonging to the same which Officers or any of them shall have full power to examine and supervise the Rolls and Numbers of Fire-hearths and Stoves already returned into the said Court of Exchequer And being accompanied with the Constable or the Tithing-man Treasurer Vnder-Treasurer or other publick or proper Officer of the place who are hereby required to attend and assist upon this occasion and in all Parishes and places where there are no Constables Tithingmen or other publick Officer as aforesaid there without any such Assistance to enter in the day time into any dwelling or other House Edifice Lodgings and Chambers aforesaid And to search and examine whether there be any more Fire-hearths and Stoves in the same then were formerly returned or certified and what Fire-hearths or Stoves are increased or decreased since the former Certificate After which search and examination the said Officer with a Constable or Tythingman or Officers as aforesaid shall have liberty to make the like search and examination once every year And if they shall find any variance in the number returned both the Officer or Officers appointed by his Majesty and the Constable or Tythingman or other Officer as aforesaid to certifie the same under his and their hands to the Clerk of the Peace which Certificate they are hereby enjoyned to make And after approbation thereof by the Iustices of the Peace at their Sessions the same to be certified to his Majesties Remembrancer in the Exchequer and the Officer or Officers so appointed by his Majesty unto the same shall from and after the said Four and twentieth day of June One thousand six hundred sixty four have power to collect and levy the Revenue and Duties so given to his Majesty as aforesaid and all arrears of the same And be it further Enacted That the said Duty shall from time to time be paid after the Feast days of Saint Michael the Arch-Angel and the Annuntiation of the Virgin Mary yearly unto such Officer as shall be appointed by vertue of this present Act to receive the same upon demand thereof made by such Officer or his Deputy at the House Chamber or place where the same Duty shall arise or grow due And that in case of refusal or default of such payment thereof by the space of one hour after such demand the said Officer or his Deputy may at any time with the assistance of a Constable Tythingman or other Officer as aforesaid in the day time levy the said Duty and all the Arrearages thereof by distress and sale of the goods of the party or parties so refusing or making default restoring to the party or parties the over-plus of the value of such goods over and above the Duty and Arrearages thereof then behind and over and above the necessary charges of taking such Distress which Charges shall in no case excéed the one moyety of the Duty and Arrearages thereof so levied Provided always and be it Enacted That no Owners Proprietors or Occupiers of the said Fire-hearths or Stoves shall be charged distrained or molested for the said Duty or any Arrearages thereof at any time after the space of two years next after the Duty hereafter shall become due to his Majesty his Heirs or Successors Nor for any arrearages of the said Duty already incurred after the space of two years from the Four and twentieth day of June One thousand six hundred sixty and four And in case of violent opposition or injury done by any person or persons to any such Officer or his Deputy in the due execution of this Act and the same proved by Oath before any one Iustice of the Peace or Chief Magistrate or Magistrates of the City Town or place dwelling near unto the place who are hereby authorized to administer the said Oath It shall and may be lawful to and for such Iustice of the Peaee Magistrate or Magistrates to punish such offender or offenders if he shall find cause by Imprisonment in the common Goal for any time not excéeding the space of one moneth And from and after the said Four and twentieth day of June One thousand six hundred sixty four all Officers formerly appointed to collect the said Duty shall be discharged from the future collecting and levying the same otherwise then as they are directed by this Act And the said Officer and Officers so appointed by his Majesty to collect this Duty shall pay the same into his Majesties Exchequer to the ends in the said former Acts mentioned Provided That no person or persons shall be employed as aforesaid unless he and they shall first give in sufficient Security to his Majesty his Heirs and Successors for the due collecting levying and paying in of the said Revenue or such part thereof as shall be committed to their respective
Trusts and shall likewise take a Corporal Oath before one or more of the Barons of the Exchequer or before such persons as shall be authorised to take such Security and Oath by Commission from the said Court of Exchequer for the due and faithful execution thereof according to the Laws Enacted to that purpose And that they shall not exact or demand any Fée or sum of money for execution thereof from any Subject but onely from the Kings Majesty under pain of being disabled to execute the said Office or Imployment And upon legal Conviction of any such Crime to render treble damage to the party grieved And shall sign and deliver Acquittances for moneys by them received without any Fée or Reward whatsoever And every such Acquittance shall be a final Discharge as in the said first Act is provided And be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That if any person occupying any Hearth or Stove chargeable to his Majesty shall leave or relinquish any House Edifice Lodging or Chamber before any of the half-yearly Feasts whereon the same is appointed to be paid to his Majesty his Heirs and Successors In every such case the next Occupier thereof shall be chargeable with the same for the said half year And if any person shall fraudulently stop up deface cover or conceal any Chimney-Hearth or Stove chargeable by the said Act and the same be proved either by confession of the party or upon Oath before one Iustice of Peace or chief Magistrate or by their view he shall for such offence pay double the value of the Duty for the same to be levied as aforesaid And be it likewise Enacted That if any person within one year last past hath or hereafter shall let the Lands Gardens Orchards or Out-houses formerly belonging to any Dwelling-house or Cottage apart from the same or shall divide any house into several dwellings or let out the same to any such persons who by reason of their poverty may pretend to be exempted from payment of the said Duty by any Clause or Clauses in the former Acts That in every such case such person shall pay the said Duty in as ample manner as they ought to have done before that time And that no person or persons inhabiting any Dwelling-house not being an Alms-house exempted by the former Act within any City Burrough Corporation Market-Town or Parish which hath or shall have in it more than two Chimneys Fire-hearths or Stoves shall be exempted from payment of the Duties thereon imposed by colour of any exemption or pretext whatsoever And if any question or difference shall arise about the taking any Distress or levying any money by vertue of this Act the same shall be heard and finally determined by one or more of the Iustices of the Peace near adjoyning or chief Magistrate of the place respectively upon complaint in that behalf And be it further Enacted That every Collector who shall be authorised and appointed by vertue of this Act to receive any of the said Duties shall truly answer and pay all such moneys as he shall receive for the said Duties into his Majesties Receipt of Exchequer half-yearly within Thrée moneths after the Feast of Saint Michael the Arch-Angel or the Annunciation of the blessed Virgin Mary happening next after the time the same moneys grew due to his Majesty by vertue of the said Acts and under the penalty of the loss of his Office And the Iustices of Peace and chief Magistrates Constables and other his Majesties Officers within their several Limits and Iurisdictions are hereby authorised and required to give assistance from time to time to such Officers as shall be appointed by his Majesty his Heirs and Successors for the collecting of the said Duty according to the true meaning of the said former Acts and this present Act. Provided That no person or persons shall be questioned for any arrears due on or before our Lady day One thousand six hundred sixty four who shall produce to the Collector a Certificate approved or to be approved of by the two next Iustices of Peace for their exemption from the said Duty for that time according to the Rules prescribed in the said first recited Act nor any person who hath truly paid the said Duty and shall if it be required make proof thereof before any one Iustice of Peace or other chief Magistrate of the place Any thing therein contained or any Return made into his Majesties Exchequer to the contrary thereof in any wise notwithstanding Provided also and be it Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That all and every such Officer or Officers as shall be at any time appointed by his Majesty his Heirs and Successors for the collecting gathering and receiving of the several sums of money now or hereafter to grow due unto his Majesty his Heirs and Successors for or in respect of the said Duty arising upon the Fire-hearths and Stoves shall satisfie and pay unto the respective Petty-Constables and Clerks of the Peace of this Kingdom all such allowances as are by any former Act or Acts given and allowed unto them as well for their pains and labour heretofore as hereafter to be taken by them as in and by the former Acts concerning Fire-hearths and Stoves are limited and appointed Any thing in this Act to the contrary notwithstanding CAP. IV. Seditious Conventicles suppressed WHereas an Act made in the Five and thirtieth year of the Reign of our late Soveraign Lady Quéen Elizabeth entituled An Act to retain the Queens Majesties Subjects in their due Obedience 35 El. cap. 1. declared to be in force hath not béen put in due Execution by reason of some doubt of late made whether the said Act be still in force although it be very clear and evident And it is hereby Declared That the said Act is still in force and ought to be put in due execution For providing therefore of further and more spéedy remedies against the growing and dangerous practises of Seditious Sectaries Further remedy against Seditious Sectaries and other disloyal persons who under pretence of Tender Consciences do at their Méetings contrive Insurrections as late Experience hath shewed Be it Enacted by the Kings most Excellent Majesty by and with the Advice and Consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal and Commons in this present Parliament assembled and by the Authority of the same That if any person of the age of Sixtéen years or upwards being a Subject of this Realm at any time after the first day of July which shall be in the year of our Lord One thousand six hundred sixty and four shall be present at any Assembly Conventicle or Méeting Vnlawful Conventicles and Meetings under pretence of exercise of Religion forbidden under colour or pretence of any exercise of Religion in other manner then is allowed by the Liturgy or practice of the Church of England in any place within the Kingdom of England Dominion of Wales and Town of Berwick
upon Tweed At which Conventicle Méeting or Assembly there shall be five persons or more assembled together over and above those of the same Houshold Then it shall and may be lawful to and for any two Iustices of the Peace of the County The punishment and manner of proceeding against them for the first offence Limit Division or Liberty wherein the Offence aforesaid shall be committed or for the Chief Magistrate of the place where such Offence aforesaid shall be committed if it be within a Corporation where there are not two Iustices of the Peace And they are hereby required and enjoyned upon proof to them or him respectively made of such offence either by confession of the party or oath of Witness or notorious evidence of the Fact which Oath the said Iustices of the Peace and Chief Magistrate respectively are hereby impowred and required to administer to make a Record of every such offence and offences under their hands and seals respectively which Record so made as aforesaid shall to all intents and purposes be in Law taken and adjudged to be a full and perfect Conviction of every such Offender for such offence And thereupon the said Iustices and Chief Magistrate respectively shall commit every such Offender so convicted as aforesaid to the Gaol or house of Correction there to remain without Bail or Mainprise for any time not excéeding the space of thrée Moneths unless such Offender shall pay down to the said Iustices or Chief Magistrate such sum of money not excéeding five pounds as the said Iustices or Chief Magistrate who are hereby thereunto authorized and required shall Fine the said Offender at for his or her said offence which money shall be paid to the Church-wardens for the relief of the Poor of the Parish where such Offender did last inhabit And be it further Enacted by the authority aforesaid The second offence That if such Offender so convicted as aforesaid shall at any time again commit the like offence contrary to this Act and be thereof in manner aforesaid convicted Then such Offender so convict of such second offence shall incur the penalty of Imprisonment in the Gaol or house of Correction for any time not excéeding six months without Bail or Mainprise unless such offender shal pay down to the said Iustices or Chief Magistrate such sum of money not excéeding Ten pounds as the said Iustices or Chief Magistrate who are thereunto authorized and required as aforesaid shall Fine the said Offender at for his or her said second offence the said Fine to be disposed in manner aforesaid And be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid The third offence That if any such Offender so convict of a second offence contrary to this Act in manner aforesaid shall at any time again commit the like offence contrary to this Act Then any two Iustices of the Peace and Chief Magistrate as aforesaid respectively shall commit every such Offender to the Gaol or house of Correction there to remain without Bail or Mainprise until the next General Quarter Sessions Assizes Gaol-delivery great Sessions or sitting of any Commission of Oyer and Terminer in the respective County Limit Division or Liberty which shall first happen when and where every such Offender shall be procéeded against by Indictment for such offence and shal forthwith be arraigned upon such Indictment and shall then plead the General Issue of not guilty and give any special matter in Evidence or confess the Indictment And if such Offender procéeded against shall be lawfully convict of such Offence either by Confession or Verdict or if such Offender shal refuse to Plead the General Issue or to confess the Indictment then the respective Iustices of the Peace at their General Quarter-Sessions Iudges of Assize and Gaol-delivery at the Assizes and Gaol-delivery Iustices of the great Sessions at the great Sessions and Commissioners of Oyer and Terminer at their sitting are hereby enabled and required to cause Iudgement to be entred against such Offender That such Offender shall be Transported beyond the Seas to any of His Majesties Foreign Plantations Virginia and New-England onely excepted there to remaine Seven years And shall forthwith under their Hands and Seals make out Warrants to the Sheriff or Sheriffs of the same County where such Conviction or Refusal to Plead or to Confess as aforesaid shall be safely to convey such Offender to some Port or Haven néerest or most commodious to be appointed by them respectively And from thence to Embarque such Offender to be safely Transported to any of his Majesties Plantations beyond the Seas as shall be also by them respectively appointed Virginia and New-England onely excepted Whereupon the said Sheriff shall safely Convey and Embarque or cause to be Conveyed and Embarqued such Offender to be Transported as aforesaid under pain of forfeiting for default of so Transporting every such Offender the sum of forty pounds of lawful money the one Moyety thereof to the King the other Moyety to him or them that shall Sue for the same in any of the Kings Courts of Record by Bill Plaint Action of Debt or Information In any of which no Wager of Law Essoign or Protection shall be admitted And the said respective Court shall then also make out Warrants to the several Constables Headboroughs or Tythingmen of the respective places where the Estate real or personal of such offender so to be Transported shall happen to be commanding them thereby to Sequester into their hands the profits of the Lands and to distrain and sell the Goods of the offender so to be Transported for the reimbursing of the said Sheriff all such reasonable charges as he shall be at and shall be allowed him by the said respective Court for such Conveying and Embarquing of such offender so to be Transported rendring to the party or his or her Assigns the overplus of the same if any be unless such offender or some other on the behalf of such offender so to be Transported shall give the Sheriff such Security as he shall approve of for the paying all the said Charges unto him And be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid How Seditious Sectaries convicted may be transported That in default of defraying such Charges by the parties so to be Transported or some other in their behalf or in default of Security given to the Sheriff as aforesaid It shall and may be lawful for every such Sheriff to Contract with any Master of a Ship Merchant or other person for the Transporting of such offender at the best rate he can And that in every such case it shall and may be lawful for such persons so Contracting with any Sheriff for Transporting such offender as aforesaid to detain and employ every such offender so by them Transported as a Labourer to them or their Assigns for the space of Five years to all intents and purposes as if he or she were bound by Indentures to such person for
County of Lincoln with the City and County of the City of Lincoln the sum of Two thousand five hundred seventy five pounds two shillings The City of London with the Liberty of S. Martins le grand the sum of Five thousand ninety one pounds eleven shillings and four pence The County of Middlesex with the City and Liberty of VVestminster the sum of Two thousand two hundred and forty pounds ten shillings The County of Monmouth the sum of Thrée hundred and ninety pounds The County of Northampton the sum of One thousand four hundred and thirtéen pounds eightéen shillings and two pence The County of Nottingham with the Town and County of the Town of Nottingham the sum of Eight hundred seventy thrée pounds eight shillings The County of Norfolk the sum of Thrée thousand thrée hundred seventy pounds twelve shillings The City and County of the City of Norwich the sum of One hundred and eighty pounds The County of Northumberland with the Towns of Newcastle and Berwick upon Tweed the sum of Thrée hundred seventy two pounds fiftéen shillings and eight pence The County of Oxon the sum of Eleven hundred thirty five pounds ten shillings and eight pence The County of Rutland the sum of Two hundred and forty pounds eight shillings and eleven pence The County of Salop the sum of One thousand two hundred and thrée pounds fourtéen shillings and two pence The County of Stafford the sum of Eight hundred fifty two pounds eleven shillings and eight pence The City and County of the City of Litchfield the sum of Thirtéen pounds The County of Somerset the sum of Two thousand seven hundred seventy one pound ten shillings and eight pence The City and County of the City of Bristol the sum of One hundred ninety nine pounds eight shillings and four pence The County of Southampton with the Town and County of Southampton and Isle of VVight the sum of Two thousand one hundred eighty nine pounds eight shillings and eight pence The County of Suffolk the sum of Thrée thousand two hundred ninety eight pounds ten shillings and eight pence The County of Surry with the Burrough of Southwark the sum of One thousand five hundred ninety seven pound and two pence The County of Sussex the sum of One thousand eight hundred twenty one pounds seven shillings and nine pence The County of VVarwick with the City and County of the City of Coventry the sum of One thousand one hundred ninety two pounds eight shillings and nine pence The County of Worcester the sum of One thousand fifty thrée pounds and ninetéen shillings The City and County of the City of VVorcester the sum of Fifty five pounds nine shillings and six pence The County of Wilts the sum of One thousand nine hundred sixty six pounds seventéen shillings and seven pence The County of Westmerland the sum of One hundred and sixtéen pounds The Isle of Anglesey the sum of One hundred twenty five pounds thirtéen shillings and eight pence The County of Brecknock the sum of Two hundred eighty two pounds ten shillings and five pence half-peny The County of Cardigan the sum of One hundred and five pounds fiftéen shillings and nine pence half-peny The County of Carmarthen the sum of Two hundred seventy two pounds six shillings and eight pence The County of Carnarvan the sum of One hundred forty six pounds twelve shillings and two pence The County of Denbigh the sum of Two hundred twenty thrée pounds ten shillings and seven pence The County of Flint the sum of One hundred and eightéen pounds seventéen shillings and four pence The County of Glamorgan the sum of Thrée hundred seventy eight pounds seventéen shillings and ten pence The County of Merioneth the sum of One hundred pounds sixtéen shillings and a peny The County of Mountgomery the sum of Two hundred seventy six pounds twelve shillings and two pence The County of Pembrook the sum of Thrée hundred twenty six pounds and ten shillings The County of Radnor the sum of One hundred seventy four pounds six shillings and eight pence The Town of Haverford West the sum of Fiftéen pounds thrée shillings and five pence And be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That all and every the persons hereafter named shall be Commissioners of and for the severall and respective Counties Cities Burroughs Towns and places hereafter named that is to say Bedford For the County of Bedford William Russel Esquire Sir Beauchampe St. John Knight Sir Samuel Brown Knight one of the Iustices of the Common Pleas Sir John Keeling Knight one of the Iustices of the Kings Bench Sir John Cotton Sir Lodowick Dyer Sir John Napler Sir Roger Burgoine Sir Thomas Alstone Sir Humphrey Winch Sir Humphrey Monox Sir St. John Charnock Baronets Sir Henry Chester Knight of the Bath Sir Will. Fleetwood Sir Will. Palmer of Warden-street Sir Will. Palmer of Hill Sir John Duncombe Sir William Beecher Sir Edward Cater Sir George Blundel sir Clement Armiger sir John Huxley Knights Pawlet St. John Richard Tayler Stephen Anderson Will. Spencer Oliver Luke Francis Crawley St. John Thompson Thomas Snagg William Boteler John Keeling John Osbourne John Vaux John Alston John Coppen Francis Wingate William Gerey Walter Carey Francis Dive William Franklin George Wyan Gaius Squire James Mountague Samuel Cotton John Neale John Cockane Thomas Cheyne John Ventris Robert Crompton Thomas Rolt Robert Audley Matthew Denton Simon Grey Matthew Dennis William Foster Richard Orlibee the elder Thomas Cobb Jasper Edwards Samuel Bedford Esquires For the Town of Bedford The Mayor of Bedford for the time being William Russel Esquire Sir Humphrey Winch Sir John Napier Baronets Pawlet St. John Richard Tayler William Foster John Gardiner Esquires Thomas Cristy William Risely Simon Becket Robert Beverley William Scot John Beaumont Thomas Fitzhugh Alderman Crawley Richard Elmes John Cobb and John Spencer the elder Gentlemen Berks. For the County of Berks Charles Earl of Ancram in the Kingdom of Scotland Sir George Cartwright Baronet Vice-Chamberlain to his Majesty John Lovelace Esquire Sir George Stonehouse Sir George Prat Sir Richard Braham Sir Thomas Draper Sir Thomas Rich Sir Henry Winchcombe Sir William Backhouse Sir Anthony Craven Sir Caesar Colclough Sir John Fettyplace Sir Thomas Clergys Baronets Sir Richard Powle Knight of the Bath Sir Edmond Sawyer Sir Robert Pye Sir William Armorer Sir Thomas Dolman Sir John Davis Sir Richard Bishop Knights Richard Nevil Humphrey Hyde Richard Harrison William Barker George Purifoy Peregrin Hobby Robert Packer Richard Aldworth Thomas Fettiplace George Fettiplace John Harrison Anthony Barker Henry Procter John Blagrave Francis Piggot Hungerford Dunch William Trumbal William Dormar John Elwes Thomas Garret John Southby William Wilmot William James William Barker of Hurst Edward Keale William Nelson Hartgell Baron Richard Jones William Tayler Edward Dalby Paul Calton Thomas Sanders Charles Whitacre Humphrey Hide senior of Hurst Humphrey Hide junior of Kingston Edward Hobby Richard Palmer John Hartsey Esquires William Offley Doctor in
de vicineto de A. Quorum quilibet habeat viginti libras terrae tenementorum vel reddit per annum ad minus per quos c. qui nec c. And the residue of the said Writ shall be after the ancient manner And that those Writs which shall be awarded and directed for Returning of Iuries within the Dominion of Wales shall be made in the same manner altering onely the word Viginti into Octo. And that upon every such Writ and Writs of Venire facias Wales the Sheriff Coroner or other ministers of each respective County in England and Wales Penalty upon the Sheriff c. unto whom the making of the Pannel shall appertain shall not return in any such Pannel any person unless he shall then have Twenty pounds or Eight pounds respectively by the year at least as aforesaid in the same County where the Issue is to be tryed upon pain to forfeit for every person being returned in any such Pannel that shall not then have Twenty pounds or Eight pounds respectively as is aforesaid the sum of Five pounds to His Majesty His Heirs and Successors And for the better enabling the Sheriff of every County to know the value of the Estates of such persons as are by the true intent and meaning of this Act to be returned for Iury-men Be it further Enacted How the Sheriff shall find out persons fit to be returned for Iury-men That every Sheriff shall on the first day of every General Quarter-Sessions yearly held next after the Feast of Easter deliver or cause to be delivered unto the Iustices of Peace sitting at the same Sessions the names of all persons of such Estates as are by the true meaning of this Act to be returned for Iury-men to the end the Estates of such persons may be enquired after and such persons approved of by the said Iustices of Peace or the greater number of them then present to be persons of such Estates to be returnable for Iury-men for the year then next ensuing And the said Iustices shall have power to add such persons having Estates of the respective values before mentioned as they shall find to be omitted by the Sheriff amongst the names by him delivered and such competent number and no more of such persons as aforesaid shall be returnable to serve of Iuries for the year next ensuing as the said Iustices or the greater number of them as aforesaid shall think fit And that no Sheriff shall incur the penalty aforesaid for returning any of the persons so approved or added by the Iustices in case his Estate fall out to be of less value then aforesaid And it is further Enacted That no Sheriff or Bailiff of any Liberty or Franchise What time summons ought to be before appearance or any of their or either of their Ministers shall return any such person or persons as aforesaid to have been summoned by them or any of them unless such person or persons shall have been duly summoned by the space of six days at the least before the day on which they ought to make their appearance And have left with or for such persons in writing the names of all the parties in those Causes wherein they are to serve as Iurors Nothing may be taken to excuse appearance The Penalty nor shall directly or indirectly take any money or other reward to excuse the appearance of any Iuror by them or any of them to be summoned or returned upon pain to forfeit for every such offence the sum of Ten pounds Saving to all Cities and Towns Corporate their ancient Vsage of returning Iurors of such Estate and in such manner as heretofore hath béen used and accustomed And be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That from henceforth upon Writs of Venire facias issued out and returned within the County-Palatine of Lancaster County-Palatine of Lancaster as of the same Assizes wherein the Issues are said to be joyned Writs of Habeas Corpora or Distringas shall be sued out like as is used in all other Counties within this Kingdom returnable at the then next Assizes And the Sheriff thereupon to return such Issues as is or ought to be done by the said Sheriffs of the said other Counties and those Issues to be duly estreated as above is provided And the better to cause and bring Iurors to appear upon Trials at Assizes within the said County-Palatine of Lancaster Be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That the Sheriff of the same County-Palatine of Lancaster for the time being shall from henceforth cause twelve good and lawful men so qualified as before in this Act is appointed out of every of the six Hundreds within the said County-Palatine to be duly summoned or warned ten days at the least before the beginning of every Assizes to be and appear the first day of the then next Assizes and there to attend during the same Assizes to perform their duty and service to the Court as Iurors or Iurymen in such Causes betwéen party and party wherein they shall be respectively returned and impannelled upon pain that every of them that shall make default to appear and attend at and during the said Assizes to forfeit Ten pounds to the use and behoof of the Poor of the Town where such person or persons so making default doth inhabit and live the same to be levied recovered and had in such manner and ways as other Issues of Iurors use to be levied Provided That this Act shall continue and stand in force for the space of Thrée years The continuance of this Act. and from thence to the end of the next Session of Parliament and no longer CAP. IV. An Additional Act for the better Ordering and Collecting the Duty of EXCISE FOr the better Ordering and Collecting the Duty of Excise Be it Enacted and Declared by the Kings most Excellent Majesty by and with the Advice and Consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal and the Commons in this present Parliament Assembled and by the Authority of the same That from and after the eighth day of November Powers given to Farmers of Excise which shall be in the year of our Lord One thousand six hundred sixty and five all Farmers of Excise or any of them within the several Circuits and Divisions of their respective Farms shall and are enabled hereby to exercise and put in Execution all such Powers and Authorities which the Commissioners or Sub-Commissioners of Excise are enabled to do and execute by the several Acts and Statutes of Excise for the levying raising receiving and managing of the said Revenue of Excise 12 Car. 2. cap. 24. 15 Car. 2. cap. 11. cap. 12 Except the Iudicial part of hearing and determining all breaches and offences against the Laws of Excise and of imposing mitigating or compounding of Fines or Penalties CAP. V. Delays in extending Statutes Judgments and Recognizances prevented Security by Statute
the ancient High-way and Post-road leading from London to York London York Lincolnshire and from London into Lincolnshire there should be a Toll paid at a certain place in every of the said several and respective Counties and for Hertfordshire at Wades-Mill in the said County which said Toll so set is by the said Act to continue the space of eleven years and no longer with this provision That if the Iustices of the Peace at their Quarter Sessions in the respective Counties shall before the expiration of eleven years adjudg the said Repairs to be sufficiently done that from thenceforth it should cease And whereas divers Gentlemen within the County of Hertford have heartily set themselves to take care for the repairing of the said ways within their County And in order thereunto finding that money could not be advanced by the Toll in so speedy a manner as to repair those ruinous ways And that none would lend their money on that Security did upon their own credits borrow thirtéen hundred pounds on Interest to effect the work intended by the said Act which sum accordingly is laid out together with such money as hath procéeded from the Toll before mentioned in the repair of the said High-way by which means they have so amended the said Road lying in that County leading from London to York that they have made the same from a Road impassable to be to the satisfaction of all that travel that way very passable and convenient but by reason of the great sum expended and laid out so borrowed as aforesaid the Toll will not be sufficient to repay the same within the years mentioned in the former Act with Interest for the same and to finish the said work Hertford Cambridg Norfolk New-Market Puckeridge Barley And whereas there is a Road in the said County of Hertford that leads from London to Cambridg and so into Norfolk and likewise to New-Market and so into Suffolk and other parts which goes out of the forementioned Road at the end of the Town of Puckeridge and so leadeth to Barly in the said County of Hertford which is very ruinous and requires as much the help of the Toll in many places as the forementioned Road did May it therefore please Your Majesty that it be Enacted and be it Enacted by the Kings most Excellent Majesty by and with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal and the Commons in this present Parliament Assembled and by Authority of the same That the Toll aforementioned to be taken at VVades-Mill for the County of Hertford II. The full taken at Wades-Mill continued that by the former Act was to continue for eleven years and no longer shall continue for the said County of Hertford for the space of One and twenty years and no longer the said Term to commence from the time mentioned in the Act before mentioned and the money arising therefrom to be imployed for the payment of the Debt aforesaid with Interest and also for further Repair of the High-way It is further Enacted and Declared by the Authority aforesaid That the persons impowred in the forementioned Act for the repair of the High-ways within the County of Hertford shall have the same power to repair the said High-ways leading from Puckeridge to Barley in the said County For repairing the high-way from Puckeridg to Barley as they have to repair the High-way in the said County leading from London to York And that they shall and may apply such part of the Toll thereunto having an equal care of both High-ways as they in their Iudgments shall find néedful Any thing in the said former Act to the contrary notwithstanding Caxton And whereas by the former recited Act a Toll was erected and set to be taken at the Town of Caxton in the County of Cambridge for and towards the repairing the High-ways in the said County the said Toll doth prove useless and will not answer the end for which the same was intended by reason of the Inconveniency of the place where the same was set Arrington-bridg Be it therefore Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That the said Toll be and is hereby removed from the said Town of Caxton unto Arrington-Bridg or the Town of Arrington as shall séem most convenient by the Iustices of the Peace of the said County at their next Easter General-Quarter-Sessions of the Peace in the County aforesaid And that the same Toll shall be taken and received at Arrington-Bridg or Arrington-Town aforesaid according to the Rates and by the same ways and means as in the former Act was appointed and declared and to be imployed to the uses purposes and intents therein also declared any thing to the contrary in any wise notwithstanding A charge of six pence in the pound for repairing the said high-ways Provided always That all and every person and persons who by Law are chargeable towards the repairing of the said High-ways and Places aforesaid shall still remain so chargeable and pay six pence in the pound yearly according to the true value of their Estate for and towards the repair of the said High-ways during the time of the continuance of this Toll any thing in this Act to the contrary thereof in any wise notwithstanding III. The collector of the toll how to account weekly And be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That the Collector of this Toll shall wéekly account to the Receiver-General for the whole money received by vertue of this or the said former Act And the next Iustice of the Peace for the said County shall hereby have power to give an Oath to the said Collectors for the making of a true and perfect account of the money so received which said account so made shall be returned into the next General-Quarter-Sessions to be held for the said County by the Iustice of Peace before whom such Oath was taken Proviso touching the continuance or determining the said toll Provided also That if at any time before the expiration of the said term of One and twenty years the said High-ways shall be well and sufficiently amended and repaired and so adjudged at the publick Quarter Sessions for the County of Hertford and that such Sum or Sums of money as is already borrowed and laid out or shall be borrowed and laid out for the use aforesaid be repaid with interest for the same That from and after such Adjudication made and repayment of such money so borrowed and laid out as aforesaid the aforesaid Toll in the said County shall cease and determine Proviso for adjudication of the amendment of the said high-ways And be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That in case the Highways within the said County of Hertford shall be sufficiently amended and that the Iustices of the Peace at their Quarter-Sessions shall fail to make an Adjudication thereof That then in such default of the said Iustices of the Peace
for the use of such persons It shall then and not before be lawful to and for the said Vndertakers and their Work-men and Servants to dig and make or cause to be digged and made the said Haven Channels Wharfs Sasses Locks and Passages or do any such other Act for which any such Agréement or Order shall be made as aforesaid And be it further Enacted That when any of the said Commissioners shall happen to dye How Commissioners dying or renouncing may be supplyd or become unfit for or renounce the Service That then and so often it shall be lawful to and for the said Lord Chancellor or Lord Keeper of the Great Seal of England for the time being from time to time to supply appoint and authorize One or so many Commissioners of the Counties of VVilts Southampton or Dorset of the Nobility or Knights and principal Gentlemen of the said Countries dwelling or having Estates within fifteen miles of the said River as shall make and fill up the before mentioned number of Commissioners which said Commissioners so supplyed appointed and authorized as aforesaid not excéeding the number before mentioned nor being under the number of One and thirty or any seven or more of them shall from thenceforth have like Power and Authority in all things as those Commissioners which are expresly named in this Act And that the Commissioners and such as from time to time for the future shall be supplyed as aforesaid or any seven or more of them have like Power and Authority to Survey the said Haven and River and all Wharfs Sasses Locks Wears Turnpikes Penns for water and all Ditches Sewers and Streams running into the said River and the Mills Mill-damms Floodgates Walls Banks and Bridges now made or hereafter to be made and built upon the same and all Impediments Decays Loss and Annoyances in the same and make like Process to inquire thereof and to set such Fines Penalties and to make such Orders and Decrées for altering amending or removing the same as any Commissioners of Sewers by any Law Statute or Commission of Sewers are enabled to do in other Rivers and Places Any Law or Statute to the contrary notwithstanding And be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That the said Vndertakers authorized as aforesaid for the making the said Haven and Passages from time to time shall have full power and authority by and with the consent of the said Commissioners or any seven or more of them to make Orders and Constitutions for the good and orderly usage of the said Haven and Passages and for all Wharfs The power to make orders and constitutions Sasses Locks Wears and Turn-pikes and for all Ships and Vessels Barges Lighters Boats Boat-men Passengers Carriages and Rates for Carriages by or through the said Haven or Passages and all things concerning the same and to set lay and execute such reasonable Pains and Punishments upon the Breakers thereof To impose penalties upon the breakers as to them in discretion shall séem méet and reasonable which said Orders and Constitutions being put in Writing under the Hands and Seals of the said Vndertakers and being allowed by the said Commissioners or any Seven or more of them under their several Hands and Seals and by the Iustices of Assize of the said several Counties of VVilts and Southampton which shall be at the time of the Signing Sealing and Publishing of the said Orders as aforesaid shall be binding to all persons whatsoever any Law or Vsage to the contrary notwithstanding The said Orders and Constitutions to be kept amongst the Records of the Sessions of the Peace for the City of New-Sarum by the Clerk of the Peace for the time being of the said City Transcripts whereof shall be delivered to the several Clerks of the Peace of the respective Counties of Wilts and Southampton to be by them kept upon Record amongst the Records of the Sessions of the said respective Counties All which shall be taken adjudged and déemed good and sufficient Evidence and proof in any Court of Record whatsoever Nevertheless the Iustices of Assize for the Counties of Wilts and Southampton Persons grieved may appeal to the Iustices of Assise upon complaint to them made by any persons grieved with the said Taxations Assessments Charges Orders Constitutions Pains and Penalties or any of them shall and may abridge moderate alter or reform the same as they shall find just cause such Orders to be under the Hands and Seals of the said Iustices and to be kept among the Records of the Sessions as aforesaid And the respective Commissioners and Iudges of Assize as aforesaid are from time to time to take special care in the manner of the laying and assessing of the said Rates and ordering and disposing of the said Haven Passages and Wharf that all opportunity for the Vndertakers or any other to engross the Commodities of the said Countrey or impose upon the Markets may be prevented The Vndertakers to have the Taxes upon Carts Carriages c. And be it Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That the said Vndertakers authorized as aforesaid for the making the said Haven and Passages respectively and their several and respective Heirs and Assigns for ever having first given satisfaction as aforesaid shall have hold peaceably and quietly receive demand take and enjoy all and every the said Rates Profits and Advantages whatsoever which shall or may from time to time and at all times hereafter be made arise grow or become due or payable for the Carriages of Wood Coals Corn Salt or any other Merchandises Commodities or Carriages whatsoever by any Ship or Vessel Barge Boat Lighter or otherwise up or down the said Haven River new Channels or the said Sasses Locks Wears Turn-pikes Penns for water Cranes Wharfs or any of them and also shall have and receive as aforesaid all Penalties imposed by the said Orders as aforesaid and in case of Refusal or Denial of Payment Penalties and how to recover the same shall and may sue for the same by Action of Debt in any Court of Record in which Action no Wager of Law Essoign or Protection shall be allowed or may distrain or make stoppage of the said Goods or Vessels till they shall be satisfied for the same And that all Fines and Amerciaments which shall be imposed as aforesaid for any Annoyances and Offences which shall be at any time hereafter committed to the hurt or prejudice of the said River or any thing thereunto appertaining shall be to the only use benefit and behoof of the said respective Vndertakers their several and respective Heirs Successors and Assigns for ever And for that the Barges Boats Lighters or other Vessels must of necessity in some places and at some times be haled up by strength of Men Horses Winches Engines or other means in that behalf convenient Drawing and haling of Barges c. upon the Banks Be it therefore Enacted by Authority of this
shillings Canon Prebendary Every person of the Degrée of a Canon or Prebendary of any Cathedral or Collegiate Church excepting such sole Prebendary who is a sole Corporation and his Prebend not Rated in the Exchequer at above Thirty pounds Doctor of Divinity Law Physick shall pay the sum of Fifty shillings Every person of the Degrée of a Doctor in Divinity Law or Physick shall pay the sum of Five pounds Doctors of Divinity not beneficed Provided always That no Doctor of Divinity not having any Benefice or Ecclesiastical preferment shall be charged for his Title or Dignity of Doctor by vertue of this Act nor the Widow of any Ecclesiastical person shall be charged for the third part according to the Title or Dignity of her late Husband And be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That for the better Assessing Ordering and Levying of the several sums of money so as aforesaid limited and appointed to be paid and for the more effectual putting of this present Act in execution such persons shall by vertue of this Act be Commissioners for the several and respective Counties Who shall be Commissioners to execute this Act. Cities Boroughs Towns and Places within the Kingdom of England Dominion of Wales and Town of Berwick upon Tweed as are nominated and appointed Commissioners for putting in execution the Powers in a former Act of this Parliament 16 17 Car. 2. cap. 1. entituled An Act for granting a Royal Ayd unto the Kings Majesty of Twenty four hundred threescore and seventeen thousand and five hundred pounds to be raised levied and paid in the space of Three years And be it further Declared and Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That these persons hereafter named shall be added Commissioners for the several Counties Places and Precincts respectively and shall exercise the same power as if they had béen named in the said former Act Viz. Bedford For the County of Bedford Villiers Charnock Humphrey Monox John Beecher Thomas Daniel John Gardiner Esquires _____ Horne Peter Harman Gent. Berks. For the County of Berks Sir William Craven Knight John Kingsmill Esquire John Withwick Edward Keat Charles Fettiplace William Bowles senior Esquires John Munday William Packer Richard House Gent. _____ Gilly Esquire Hugh Barker Doctor of Physick Bucks For the County of Bucks Sir Charles Clever Knight Sir Timothy Tyrrel Knight and Baronet Sir Frederick Hyde Thomas Catesby Edward Stafford Esquires Matthew Archdel Gent Sir John Busby For the Town of Buckingham George Robbins Cambridge For the County of Cambridge Sir John Jacob Baronet Sir Ralph Bovey Baronet Roger Pepys Esq Gerrard Russel Esq For the Town of Cambridge Rowland Simpson Alderman Ely For the Isle of Ely William Legat Anthony Fisher Peter Diamond Esquires Chester For the City and County of the City of Chester Thomas Cooper Alderman Edward Bradshaw Esq Richard Burd Alderman Richard Minshal Richard Taylor John Poolie Robert Harvy Aldermen Cornwall For the County of Cornwall John Trelawney of Trelawen Thomas Vivian John Moulesworth Esquires William Inch Abel French Nicholas Trebarfoot Edward Herle Edward Hoblin Nicholas Herle Walter Leech George Spry William Bond Thomas Dodson Iohn Arundel Iohn Tregygle William Thomas Anthony Tanner John Barret Thomas Penhallow Iohn Tamlin Iohn Verman Richard Williams Iohn Williams Esquires William Kegwin Henry Edwards Arthur Painter Gent. Cumberland For the County of Cumberland John Warwick Richard Lamplugh Miles Penington Joseph Patrickson Iohn Senhouse William Orphaur Ferdinando Hudleston Leonard Dykes Hugh Ascue Richard Patrickson John Punsonbee Esquires Devon For the County of Devon Christopher Lord Torington Richard Duke Gydeon Heydon Richard Lee Richard Hillersdon Samuel Roll Arthur Ashford John Bluet William Bragg Matthew Halls Edmund Parker John Mallet Esquires Sir Iohn Stowel Iohn Chichester Esquire Exon. For the City and County of Exon John Mallet Esquire Doctor Edward Masters Chancellor of the Diocess Eustace Budgell Gent. Derby For the County of Derby George Savile Robert Ashton John Gell Iohn Low Iohn Du◠Esquires Andrew Clayton Robert Moore Gent. Richard Merchant Alderman Edward Abney Esquire Dorset For the County of Dorset Robert Cullyford William Frampton Robert Williams Henry Henly junior Humphrey Weld Esquires the High Sheriff for the time being Iohn Ellesdon Salomon Andrews Iohn Gallop Gentlemen Pool For the Town and County of Pool the Mayor for the time being William Okeden Allen Skutt Gentlemen Durham For the County Palatine of Durham Sir George Fletcher Baronet Robert Shaftoe Humphrey Wharton Thomas Craddock Christopher Saunderson John Jeffreyson Esquires Robert Newhouse Edward Arden Gent. Essex For the County of Essex Sir John Archer one of the Iustices of the Common Pleas Philip Saltenston Thomas Cullum Esquires Timothy Midleton Esq Sir James Russet Edward Shelton Francis Mildmay Colchester For the Town of Colchester Sir Harbotle Grimstone Baronet Master of the Rolls John Eldred senior Iohn Eldred junior Esquires Harwich For the Town of Harwich and Dover-Court the Mayor for the time being Sir Cappel Luckin Knight and Baronet Iohn Eldred junior Esquire Mr. George Coleman Daniel Smith Captain Hunter Alderman Sack Samuel Newton Alderman Robinson Alderman Garriot Alderman Hawks Gloucester For the County of Gloucester Sir John Treacy Sir William Juckson Sir Iohn Newton Baronets Sir Francis Fane Knight of the Bath Sir Iohn Poynts Knight John Merideth Iohn Vaughan Thomas Carpender William Oldesworth John Browning Thomas Veel of Simons Hall Edward Smith George Brett Roger Lingan Robert Loggin Esquires VVilliam Hancock Conway Whitton Thomas Smith Richard Jones of Hanham Thomas Wise Richard Hart Gent. City of Gloucester For the City and County of the City of Gloucester Sir Bainham Throckmorton Knight and Baronet Mr. Thomas Aram Merchant Mr. Iohn Marston Colonel Richard Atkins William Cook Esquire Hereford For the County of Hereford James Pitts Francis Pember of Elsdon Robert Minors of Treagoe Edward Scrimshaw Iohn Bridge of Priors-Court Esquires John Burch of Garnston Iohn Curver of Upton Henry Milbourne William Driver Gilbert Hare Gent. City of Hereford Bridstock Herford Esquire Humphrey Diggs Humphrey Howarth James Wellington Gent. Hertford For the County of Hertford Sir Thomas Brograve Sir Robert Joscelyne Baronets Sir John Witterong Knight and Baronet Sir Charles Cleaver Knight Robert Dicer Iohn Cesar Ralph Radcliffe Francis Shalcross Edward Chester Thomas Tooke Esquires Richard Taverner King of Hempstead Joseph Edmonds Charles Cesar George Nodes George Poyner Joseph Hatch Charles Crouch Thomas James Iohn Dagnoll Gentlemen VVilliam Glascock Esquire Saint Albons For the Burrough of Saint Albans Joshua Lomax Edward Crosby Thomas Rotheram William Rugg William Rance Aldermen Iohn Dogget Huntington For the County of Huntington Sir Iames Beverly Iohn Dryden Anthony Hammon Major Dean of Godmanchester Kent For the County of Kent Sir Thomas Monins Sir Thomas Peirse Baronets Sir Iohn Shaw Knight and Baronet Sir Nicholas Strode Knight Edward Master Elwin VVyat William VViseman Esquires The Mayor of Maidstone for the time being Canterbury For the City and County of Canterbury William
aforesaid And upon due Examination or knowledge thereof abate defalk increase or inlarge the said Assessment And the same so abated increased or inlarged shall be Estreated by them into the Exchequer in manner aforesaid And to that end the said Commissioners are hereby required to méet together for the Determining of such Complaints and Appeals accordingly And be it further Enacted That every person rated for his Office shall be rated In what places Persons shall be rated for Offices or otherwise and pay for his said Office in the place where the said Office is executed And every person to be otherwise rated shall be rated and the sum or sums on him or her set and levied at such places where he or she and with his or her Family shall be resident at the time of the execution of this Act And that all persons not being Housholders nor having a certain place of above and all Servants shall be Taxed at the place where they are resident at the time of the execution of this Act thrée moneths before the execution of this Act. Provided always That if any person having several Mansion-houses or places of Residence Persons doubly charged may be discharged upon Certificate shall be doubly charged by vertue of this Act That upon Certificate made by two or more of the Commissioners for the County City or place which Certificate the said Commissioners are required to give without delay Fée or Reward of his or their last personal Resiâ—ence under their Hands and Seals of the sum or sums there charged upon him or them and in what capacity or respect he or they were so charged and upon Oath made of such Certificate before the Commissioners to whom such Certificate shall be tendred which Oath the said Commissioners are hereby authorized to administer Then the person and persons so doubly charged shall for so much as shall be so certified be discharged in every other County City or place And if any person at the time of the Assessing shall be out of the Realm such person shall be rated where such person was last abiding within the Realm Persons changing their dwelling by fraud to avoid the Tax And if any person that ought to be Taxed by vertue of this Act by changing his place of residence or by fraud or covin shall escape from the Taxation and not be Taxed and the same proved before the Commissioners or two of them or two Iustices of the Peace of the County where such person dwelleth or is resident at any time within Six moneths next ensuing after such Tax made Every person that shall so escape from the said Taxation and payment shall be charged Penalty upon proof thereof at the double value of so much as he should or ought to have béen Taxed by the Act The said double value upon Certificate thereof made into the Exchequer by the Commissioners or Iustices before whom such proof shall be made to be Levied of the Goods Lands and Tenements of such persons towards the Supply aforesaid And be it further Enacted That the Commissioners which shall be within any County or Place within their respective limits or the major part of them Commissioners to taxe one another shall Tax and Assess every other Commissioner joyned with them and the Commissioners within their Division shall Assess every Assessor within their Division And as well all sums upon every the said Commissioners and Assessors as the Assessments made and presented by the Presenters as aforesaid shall be Written Estreated Levied and Gathered as it should and ought to have béen as if the said Commissioners had not béen named Commissioners Provided always and it is hereby declared Decrâ— That the several Rates and Taxes to which the Lords and Péers of this Realm shall be liable by vertue of this Act shall be received by a Collector to be nominated by the Péers which said Collector shall cause the same to be paid into His Majesties Receipt of Exchequer at Westminster upon or before the aforesaid thirtieth day of April Provided That this Act shall not extend to the Inhabitants of Scotland Ireland Scotland Ireland Jersey Guernsey Jersey or Guernsey for or concerning any such personal Estate as aforesaid which they or any other to their use have within the places aforesaid And be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That the respective Treasurers of His Majesties Navy and Ordnance are hereby authorized and required to take and retain unto themselves Allowances to the Treasurers of the Navy and such as shall be respectively imployed by and under them One peny in the pound and no more out of the moneys raised by vertue of this Act and paid unto and issued out by them to any person or persons in pursuance thereof to be allowed unto them in their respective Accompts And be it further Enacted That if any Assessor Collector Receiver or other person appointed by the Commissioners shall wilfully neglect or refuse to perform his Duty in the due and spéedy Execution of this present Act The said respective Commissioners Assessors Collectors or Receivers neglecting their duties or any thrée or more of them may and shall by vertue of this Act impose on such person or persons so refusing or neglecting their Duties any Fine not excéeding the sum of Twenty pounds for any one offence the same to be Levied and Certified as aforesaid into His Majesties Court of Exchequer Penalty and charged upon the respective Receiver-general amongst the rest of the Rates aforesaid and the said Commissioners or any two or more of them may or shall from time to time call for and require an Accompt from the respective Receiver-general of all the Moneys received by him of the said Head-collectors and of the payment thereof into His Majesties Receipt of Exchequer according to the direction of this Act And in case of any failer in the premisses the said Commissioners or any two or more of them are hereby required to cause the same to be forthwith levied and paid according to the true intent and meaning of this Act. And in case of any controversie arising betwéen the said Commissioners concerning the said Rates or Assessments the Commissioners that shall be concerned therein shall have no voice but shall withdraw during the debate of such controversie until it be determined by the rest of the Commissioners And all questions and differences that shall arise touching any of the said Rates Taxes Assessments or Levies shall be heard and finally determined by two or more of the Commissioners upon complaint thereof to them made by any person or persons thereby grieved without further trouble or Suit in Law Controversies and questions about the rates how to be determined And the said Receiver-general shall give Acquittances gratis to the said Head-collectors for all moneys of them received and the said Head-collectors shall also give Acquittances gratis to the Sub-collectors for all such
shall or may repair to view the same and thereout to take Copies of all such Iudgements and Determinations as shall relate to him her and them And that none of the said Iustices and Barons shall take any Fée or Reward whatsoever directly or indirectly for any thing to be done by them by vertue or colour of this present Act. Officers And be it Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That for a reward of the Officers to be imployed herein A Table of Fees the said Iustices and Barons or any thrée or more of them as aforesaid are hereby enabled to order and direct a Table of such reasonable Fées to be made as may carry on and effect the purport and intent of this Act. This Act to continue till the last day of December which shall be in the year of our Lord One thousand six hundred sixty and eight The continuance of this Act. and no longer Proviso touching the renewing and reversing Orders or Decrees Provided always and be it Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That where any such Order or Decrée as aforesaid shall be made by a lesser number of Iustices and Barons then Seven it shall be lawful for any person agrieved by such Order or Decrée to present his Exceptions to the same in writing within seven days next after such Order or Decrée made to the Chief Iustices and Chief Baron for the time being or any two of them who shall forthwith communicate the same to the rest of the said Iustices and Barons who are hereby required to hear the Parties and examine and consider the said Exceptions And if any Seven or more of them shall subscribe thereunto that they find probable cause of complaint Then it shall and may be lawful to and for any Seven or more of the said Iustices Barons within Twenty days next following such Exceptions delivered to review the said former Order or Decrée And thereupon to reverse Confirm Enlarge Diminish or otherwise alter any such Order or Decrée as in their wisdoms they shall think fit Any thing herein contained notwithstanding CAP. III. For Rebuilding the City of London FOrasmuch as the City of London being the Imperial Seat of His Majesties Kingdoms and renowned for Trade and Commerce throughout the World by reason of a most dreadful Fire lately happening therein was for the most part thereof burnt down and destroyed within the compass of a few days and now lies buried in its own Ruines For the spéedy Restauration whereof and for the better Regulation Vniformity and Gracefulness of such new Buildings as shall be erected for Habitations in order thereunto And to the end that great and outragious Fires through the blessing of Almighty God so far forth as humane Providence with submission to the Divine pleasure can foresée may be reasonably prevented or obviated for the time to come both by the matter and form of such Building And further to the intent that all Incouragement and Expedition may be given unto and all Impediments and Obstructions that may retard or protract the undertaking or carrying on a work so necessary and of so great Honour and Importance to His Majesty and this Kingdom and to the rest of His Majesties Kingdoms and Dominions may be removed Be it therefore Enacted by the Kings most Excellent Majesty by and with the Advice and Consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal and Commons in this present Parliament assembled and by the Authority of the same That the Rules and Directions hereafter in this Act prescribed be duely observed by all persons therein concerned And first That no Building or House for Habitation whatsoever Rules and directions to be observed in building be hereafter Erected within the limits of the said City and Liberties thereof but such as shall be pursuant to such Rules and Orders of Building and with such materials as are herein after particularly appointed and according to such Scantlings as are set down and prescribed in a Table in this present Act hereafter specified And if any person or persons shall presume to Build contrary thereunto and be convicted of the same by the Oaths of two or more credible witnesses to be taken before the Lord Mayor for the time being or any two or more of the Iustices of the Peace for the said City Penalty who are hereby impowred to administer the same Oaths that then and in such case the said House so irregularly built as aforesaid shall be déemed as a common Nusance and the Builder and Levier thereof shall enter into a Recognizance in such sum as the said Mayor and Iustices respectively in their Discretions shall appoint for abatement and demolishing the same in convenient time or otherwise to amend the same according to such Rules and Orders as aforesaid and in default of entring into such Recognizance the Offender shall be committed to the common Gaol of the said City there to remain without Bail or Mainprize till he shall have abated or demolished or otherwise amended the same or else such irregular House shall or may be demolished or abated by Order of the Court of Aldermen And that the said irregular Buildings may be the better prevented or more effectually discovered Prevention of irregular buildings Be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That the Lord Mayor Aldermen and Common-Council of the said City shall and may at their will and pleasure elect nominate and appoint one or more discréet and intelligent person or persons in the Art of Building to be the Surveyors or Supervisors to sée the said Rules and Scantlings well and truly observed And that it shall be lawful for the said Mayor Aldermen and Common Council or for the Mayor and Aldermen in their Court of Aldermen to administer to all the said Surveyors or Supervisors an Oath upon the holy Evangelists for the true and impartial execution of their Office in that behalf and to appoint the several Precincts which shall be under their several Surveys And to the end that all Builders may the better know how to provide and fit their materials for their several Buildings Be it Enacted That there shall be onely Four sorts of Buildings There shall be four sorts of buildings only and no more and that all manner of Houses so to be erected shall be of one of those four sorts of Buildings and no other that is to say The First and least sort of Houses fronting By-Lanes the Second sort of Houses fronting Stréets and Lanes of note the Third sort of Houses fronting high and principal Stréets the Fourth and largest sort of Mansion-houses for Citizens or other persons of extraordinary quality not fronting either of the thrée former ways And the Roofs of each of the first three sorts of Houses respectively shall be Vniform And for avoiding any uncertainty to the Builders or others herein Be it further Enacted Powers of the Lord Mayor Aldermen and Common Council to declare Streets
and Court of Aldermen are hereby authorized by vertue of this Act to issue out a Warrant or Warrants to the Sheriffs of London who are hereby required accordingly to Impannel and return a Iury before the said Lord Mayor and Court of Aldermen Which Iury upon their Oaths to be administred by the said Lord Mayor and Court of Aldermen are to Inquire and Assess such Damage and Recompence as they shall judge fit to be awarded to the Owners and others interested according to their several and respective Interests and Estates of and in any such Houses or Ground or any part thereof for their respective Interests and Estates in the same as by the said Lord Mayor Aldermen and Commons in Common Council assembled shall be adjudged fit to be converted for the purposes aforesaid And such Verdict of the Iury and Iudgement of the said Lord Mayor and Court of Aldermen thereupon and the payment of the sum or sums of money so awarded or adjudged to the Owners and others having Estate or Interest or Tender and refusal thereof shall be binding to all intents and purposes against the said Parties their Heirs Executors Administrators and Assigns and others claiming any Title or Interest in the said Houses or Ground and shall be a full Authority for the said Lord Mayor Aldermen and Commons to cause the same to be converted and used for the purposes aforesaid Houses which shall be bettered in value And forasmuch as the Houses now remaining and to be rebuilt will receive more or less advantage in the value of their Rents by the liberty of Air and frée Recourse for Trade and other Conveniencies by such Regulation and Inlargement It is also Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That in case of refusal or incapacity as aforesaid of the Owners or others interessed of or in the said Houses to agrée and compound with the said Lord Mayor Aldermen and Commons for the same Thereupon a Iury shall and may be Impannelled in manner and form aforesaid to Iudge and Assess upon the Owners and others interessed of and in such Houses such competent sum and sums of Money with respect to their several Interests in consideration of such improvement and melioration as in reason and good conscience they shall think fit And all sums of Money that shall be so Assessed and Raised as aforesaid shall be paid to the Chamberlain of the City of London for the time being who is hereby enabled from time to time to receive and recover the same by Action at Law and whose Receipt shall be a good Discharge to such Owners or others interessed And who is hereby appointed to receive and pay and be accomptable for the same according to such Directions as shall from time to time be given him by the said Lord Mayor Aldermen and Commons And the Money so raised shall be wholly imployed towards payment and satisfaction of such Houses and Ground as shall be converted into Stréets Passages Markets and other publick places aforesaid And such satisfaction so given or tendered and refused as aforesaid shall devest the Propriety Estate and Interest of the respective Owners and others having Interest of and in such parcels of Ground so to be taken and imployed for the uses aforesaid by vertue of this Act Which shall be and are hereby actually Setled and Invested in the said Lord Mayor Commonalty and Citizens of the City of London and their Successors in like manner as other the Common-stréets and High-ways within the said City Who may hear and determine differences of several claims of Estates And in case any Controversies or Differences shall happen to arise betwéen several persons that shall claim several Estates or Interests into or out of any Grounds to be sold by the said Mayor Aldermen and Common Council or by them to be taken and disposed of by vertue and in pursuance of this Act to and for the uses aforesaid That then the Iustices of the Courts of Kings Bench and Common Pleas and Barons of the Coif of the Exchequer for the time being or any thrée or more of them shall be and are hereby authorized to hear and finally to order and determine the same in a summary way of procéeding and without the formalities or ordinary course of procéedings used in any the said Courts to order and award such Distribution to be made of the Money thereby arising for the satisfying of such several Interests and Claims as to them shall séem just and reasonable according to the respective Estate or Estates Title or Interests of the person or persons making Claim thereunto According to which order and distribution to be made and appointed by the said Iustices and Barons or any three or more of them the said Purchase-money shall be satisfied and paid by the said Chamberlain to the said several persons respectively The second of September appointed a day of Humiliation in the City yearly forever And that the said Citizens and their Successors for all the time to come may retain the Memorial of so sad a Desolation and reflect seriously upon their manifold Iniquities which are the unhappy causes of such Iudgements Be it further Enacted That the Second day of September unless the same happen to be Sunday and if so then the next day following be yearly for ever hereafter observed as a day of Publick Fasting and Humiliation within the said City and Liberties thereof to implore the Mercies of almighty God upon the said City to make devout Pray and Supplication unto him to divert the like Calamity for the time to come A Pillar to be set in memory of the Fire And the better to preserve the memory of this Dreadful Visitation Be it further Enacted That a Column or Pillar of Brass or Stone be erected on or as near unto the place where the said Fire so unhappily began as conveniently may be in perpetual Remembrance thereof with such Inscription thereon as hereafter by the Mayor and Court of Aldermen in that behalf be directed Tender of money at the Assurance Office or the Royal Exchange And be it Enacted And it is hereby Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That all Tenders of Money or Payment thereof which by any Bonds Covenants or other Obligations or Assurance whatsoever ought to be made in the late Assurance-Office or in any other place on the late Royal Exchange London shall or may be made at or in the present Assurance-Office in Gresham-House And shall be as valid and legal to all intents and purposes and discharge the Obligor as fully and amply as if they had béen made in the first intended place on the said Royal Exchange And it is hereby further Enacted That the Parish-Churches to be Rebuilded within the said City of London in lieu of those which were Demolished by the late Fire Parish Churches to be rebuilded shall not excéed the number of Thirty nine Which shall be set out and appointed by and with the
 14 3 8 Principal Discharges upon Peers In the first Story in the Fronts Inches  Inches 13 and 12 15  13 Binding Joysts with their Trimming Joysts Thickness Inches  5 depth equal to their own Floors Wall-plates or raising Pieces and Beams Inches  Inches 10 and 6 8  6 7  5 Lintels of Oak in the  Inches  Inches 1st 2d story 8 6 3d story 5  4 For the Roof Principal Rafters from Length  Thickness Foot Foot Inches Inches 15 to 18 at foot 9 7 at top 7 18-21 at foot 10 8 at top 8 21-24 at foot 12 8 ½ at top 9 24-26 at foot 13 9 at top 9 Purlines from Length   Foot Foot Inches Inches 15 to 18 9 8 18-21 12 9 Single Rafters  Foot Inches Inches not exceeding in length 9 5 4 not exceeding in length 6 4 3 ½ Scantlings for Sawed Timber and Laths usually brought out of the West-Countrey not less then  Breadth Thickness  Foot Inches Inch. Single Quarters in length 8 3 ½ 1 ¾ Double Quarters in length 8 4 3 ½ Sawed Joysts in length 8 6 4 Laths in length 5 1 ¼ 1 quarter ½ of Inch. 4   Stone Where Stone is used to keep to these Scantlings First sort of Houses  Inches Corner Peers 18 square Middle or single Peers 14 and 12 Double Peers between House House 14 and 18 Door-jambs and Heads 12 and 8 2d 3d sorts  Foot Inches Corner Peers 2-6 square Middle or single Peers 18 square Double Peers between House House 24 and 18 Doors-jambs and Heads 14 and 10 Scantlings for Sewers Foot  Thickness  3 wide Side-walls 1 brick Bottom paved plain and then 1 brick an edge circular 5 high Arch 1 brick on end General Rules IN every Foundation within the Ground add one Brick in thickness to the thickness of the Wall as in the Scheme next above the Foundation to be set off in Thrée Courses equally on both sides That no Timber be laid within Twelve Inches of the Foreside of the Chimney-Iambs And that all Ioysts on the Back of any Chimney be laid with a Trimmer at Six Inches distance from the Back That no Timber be laid within the Tunnel of any Chimney upon penalty to the Workman for every default Ten shillings and Ten shillings every Wéek it continues unreformed That no Ioysts or Rafters be laid at greater distances from one to the other then Twelve Inches and no Quarters at greater distance then Fourtéen Inches That no Ioysts bear at longer length then Ten Foot and no single Rafters at more in length then Nine Foot That all Roofs Window-frames and Cellar-floors be made of Oak The Tile-pins of Oak No Summers or Girders to lie over the Head of Doors and Windows No Summer or Girder to lie less then Ten Inches into the Wall no Ioysts then Eight Inches and to be laid in Loame CAP. IV. For Relief of poor Prisoners and setting of them on Work WHereas there is not yet any sufficient Provision made for the Relief and setting on work of poor and néedy persons committed to the Common Gaol for Felony and other misdemeanors who many times perish before their Trial and the Poor there living idly and unimployed become debauched and come forth instructed in the practice of Thievery and lewdness For remedy whereof Be it Enacted by the Kings most Excellent Majesty with advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal and Commons in this present Parliament assembled and by Authority of the same That the Iustices of the Peace of the respective Counties How Stocks may be provided for setting the poor on work at any their General Sessions or the major part of them then there assembled if they shall find it néedfull so to do may provide Stock of such Materials as they find convenient for the setting poor Prisoners on work in such manner and by such ways as other County-charges by the Laws and Statutes of the Realm are and may be levied and raised And to pay and provide fit persons to oversée and set such Prisoners on work and make such Orders for Accompts of and concerning the premisses as shall by them be thought néedful and for punishment of neglects and other abuses and for bestowing of the Profit arising by the labour of the Prisoners so set on work for their Relief which shall be duly observed And may alter revoke or amend such their Orders from time to time Provided that no Parish be rated above Sir pence by the wéek towards the premisses having respect to the respective values of the several Parishes And whereas sometimes by occasion of the Plague and otherwhiles by the great number of Prisoners great and infectious Diseases have happened among the Prisoners Sickness and Diseases hapning among Prisoners whereby it hath come to pass sometimes that the Iudges Iustices and Iurors have upon occasion of their Attendance at the Trial of Prisoners béen infected and many of them died thereof and sometime such Infection hath spread in the Country For some Remedy therein Be it by the same Authority Enacted That any Sheriff of the respective Counties having the Custody of the Gaol or such persons who have the Custody of the Goal with the advice and consent of thrée or more Iustices of the Peace whereof one to be of the Quorum may if they shall on inquiry or information find it needful upon emergent occasions in the respective Counties provide other safe places for the removal of sick or other persons from and out of the ordinary and usual Gaols the same places to be used and imployed for the reception and custody of the Prisoners to be by or according to their Order or Orders kept ordered disposed and conveyed to the places appointed for the Gaol-delivery in such and like manner as such Prisoners ought to be kept ordered disposed and conveyed in and from the Common Gaols by the Laws and Statutes of the Land Provided no such place be made use of for the purposes aforesaid against the good and frée will of the Owners thereof Provided also and be it Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That the Mayor Bayliff Removing of Prisoners and other Head-Officer or any other person and persons who have and hath the Custody of the Common Gaol within any Corporation of this Kingdom and Dominion of Wales shall by and with the advice of thrée or more Iustices of Peace within the said Corporation whereof one of them to be of the Quorum in time of Infection have the like power and authority for removing his and their Prisoners into some other convenient place within their Iurisdiction as to them shall séem fit during the time of Infection And also to raise a Stock after the same rates and proportions as is herein before allowed to and for the several Counties within this Kingdom Provided also And be it further Enacted by the
all Statutes and Acts of Parliament Acts that are to have continuance shall remain in foâ—ce which are to have continuance unto the end of this present Session shall be of full force after the said Adjournment until this present Session be fully ended and determined And if this Session shall determine by dissolution of this present Parliament then all the Acts aforesaid shall be continued until the end of the first Session of the next Parliament And all Statutes and Acts of Parliament When the Acts which are now to pass shall take effect which before the said Adjournment shall pass by his Majesties royal Assent shall be put in execution immediately after forty dayes after the said Adjournment notwithstanding that by the words or letter of the said Acts or any of them they be limited to take effect or be put in execution from or at any time after the end of this present Session Anno Reg. Caroli Regis Angliae Scotiae Franciae Hiberniae Tertio AT the Parliament began at Westminster the Seventeenth day of March Anno Dom. 1627. in the Third year of the Reign of our most gracious Soveraign Lord CHARLES by the grace of God of England Scotland France and Ireland King Defender of the Faith c. And there continued until the Twenty sixth day of June following and then prorogued unto the twentieth day of October next ensuing To the high pleasure of Almighty God and to the weal publick of this Realm were enacted as followeth A Declaration of divers Rights and Liberties of the People to the Kings most Excellent Majesty HVmbly shew unto our Soveraign Lord the King the Lords Spiritual and Temporal The Petition of Right and Commons in Parliament assembled That whereas it is declared and Enacted by a Statute made in the time of the Reign of King Edward the First 34 Ed. 1. commonly called Statutum de Tallagio non concedendo That no Tallage or Aid shall be laid or levied by the King or his Heirs in this Realm without the good will and assent of the Archbishops Bishops Earls Barons Knights Burgesses and other the Fréemen of the Commonalty of this Realm And by Authority of Parliament holden in the five and twentieth year of the reign of King Edward the third 25 Ed. 3. Rot. Parl. it is declared and Enacted That from thenceforth no person should be compelled to make any Loans to the King against his will because such Loans were against reason and the Franchise of the Land 1 Ed. 3. 6. 11 R. 2. 9. 1 R. 3. 2. And by other Laws of this Realm it is provided That none should be charged by any Charge or Imposition called a Benevolence nor by such like charge By which the Statutes before mentioned and other the good Laws and Statutes of this Realm your Subjects have inherited this Fréedom That they should not be compelled to contribute to any Tax Tallage Aid or other like charge not set by common consent in Parliament Yet nevertheless of late divers Commissions directed to sundry Commissioners in several Counties with instructions have issued by means whereof your People have béen in divers places assembled and required to lend certain sums of Money unto your Majesty and many of them upon their refusal so to do have had an Oath administred unto them not warrantable by the Laws or Statutes of this Realm and have béen constrained to become bound to make Appearance and give Attendance before your Privy Councel and in other places and others of them have béen therefore imprisoned confined and sundry other ways molested and disquieted And divers other Charges have béen laid and levied upon your People in several Counties by Lord-Lievetenants Deputy-Lievetenants Commissioners for Musters Iustices of Peace and others by command or direction from your Majesty or your Privy Councel against the Laws and frée Customs of this Realm 9. H. 3. 29. And where also by the Statute called The great Charter of the Liberties of England It is declared and Enacted That no Fréeman may be taken or imprisoned or be disseised of his Fréehold or Liberties or his frée Customs or be outlawed or exiled or in any manner destroyed but by the lawful judgement of his Péers or by the Law of the Land 28. Ed. 3. 3. And in the eight and twentieth year of the reign of King Edward the third it was declared and Enacted by Authority of Parliament That no man of what estate or condition that he be should be put out of his Land or Tenements nor taken nor imprisoned nor disherited nor put to death without being brought to answer by due process of Law St. 37. Ed. 3. 18. St. 38 Ed. 3 9. St. 42 Ed. 3. 3. St. 17. R. 2. 6. Nevertheless against the tenor of the said Statutes and other the good Laws and Statutes of your Realm to that end provided divers of your Subjects have of late béen imprisoned without any cause shewed And when for their deliverance they were brought before your Iustices by your Majesties Writs of Habeas corpus there to undergo and receive as the Court should order and their Kéepers commanded to certifie the causes of their detainer no cause was certified but that they were detained by your Majesties special command signified by the Lords of your Privy Councel and yet were returned back to several Prisons without being charged with any thing to which they might make answer according to the Law 25. Ed. 3. 9. And whereas of late great Companies of Souldiers and Mariners have béen dispersed into divers Counties of the Realm and the Inhabitants against their wills have béen compelled to receive them into their houses and there to suffer them to sojourn against the Laws and Customs of this Realm and to the great grievance and vexation of the People 25. Ed. 3. 9. And whereas also by Authority of Parliament in the five and twentieth year of the raign of King Edward the third it is declared and Enacted That no man should be fore-judged of life or limb against the form of the Great Charter and Law of the Land 9. H. 3. 28. 25. Ed 3. 4. 28. Ed. 3. 3 And by the said Great Charter and other the Laws and Statutes of this your Realm no man ought to be adjudged to death but by the Laws established in this your Realm either by the Customs of the same Realm or by Acts of Parliament And whereas no offendor of what kinde soever is exempted from the procéedings to be used and punishments to be inflicted by the Laws and Statutes of this your Realm Nevertheless of late divers Commissions under your Majesties great Seal have issued forth by which certain persons have béen assigned and appointed Commissioners with power and authority to procéed within the Land according to the Iustice of Martial Law against such Souldiers and Mariners or other dissolute persons joyning with them as should commit any Murther Robbery Felony Mutiny
or other outrage or misdemeanor whatsoever and by such summary course and order as is agréeable to Martial Law and as is used in Armies in time of War to procéed to the trial and condemnation of such Offendors and them to cause to be executed and put to death according to the Law Martial By pretext whereof some of your Majesties Subjects have béen by some of the said Commissioners put to death when and where if by the Laws and Statutes of the Land they had deserved death by the same Laws and Statutes also they might and by no other ought to have béen judged and executed And also sundry grievous Offendors by colour thereof claiming an exemption have escaped the punishments due to them by the Laws and Statutes of this your Realm by reason that divers of your Officers and Ministers of Iustice have unjustly refused or forborn to procéed against such Offendors according to the same Laws and Statutes upon pretence that the said Offendors were punishable onely by Martial Law and by Authority of such Commissions as aforsaid Which Commissions and all other of like nature are wholly and directly contrary to the said Laws and Statutes of this your Realm The Petition They do therefore humbly pray your most excellent Majesty That no man hereafter be compelled to make or yield any Gift Loan Benevolence Tax or such like charge without common consent by Act of Parliament And that none be called to make answer or take such Oath or to give attendance or be confined or otherwise molested or disquieted concerning the same or for refusal thereof And that no Fréeman in any such manner as is before mentioned be imprisoned or detained And that your Majesty would be pleased to remove the said Souldiers and Mariners and that your People may not be so burthened in time to come And that the foresaid Commissions for procéeding by Martial Law may be revoked and annulled And that hereafter no Commissions of like nature may issue forth to any person or persons whatsoever to be executed as aforesaid lest by colour of them any of your Majesties Subjects be destroyed or put to death contrary to the Laws and Franchise of the Land All which they most humbly pray of your most excellent Majesty as their Rights and Liberties according to the Laws and Statutes of this Realm And that your Majesty would also vouchsafe to declare That the awards doings and procéedings to the prejudice of your People in any of the premisses shall not be drawn hereafter into consequence or example And that your Majesty would be also graciously pleased for the further comfort and safety of your People to declare your royal will and pleasure That in the things aforesaid all your Officers and Ministers shall serve you according to the Laws and Statutes of this Realm as they tender the Honor of your Majesty and the Prosperity of this Kingdom Stat. 17 Car. cap. 14. CAP. I. A restraint of divers abuses committed on the Lords day FOrasmuch as the Lords day commonly called Sunday is much broken and prophaned by Carriers Waggoners Carters Wain-men Butchers and Drovers of Cattle to the great dishonor of God and reproach of Religion Be it therefore enacted by the Kings most excellent Majesty and the Lords Spiritual and Temporal and by the Commons in this present Parliament assembled and by the Authority of the same That no Carrier with any Horse or Horses A Carrier c. that travels upon the Lords day shall forfeit 20. s. nor Waggon-men with any Waggon or Waggons nor Car-men with any Cart or Carts nor Wain-man with any Wain or Wains nor Drovers with any Cattel shall after forty days next after the end of this present Session of Parliament by themselves or any other travel upon the said Day Butchers that sell or kill victual upon that day shall forfeit 6. s. 8. d. upon pain that every person and persons so offending shall lose and forfeit twenty shillings for every such offence Or if any Butcher by himself or any other for him by his privity or consent shall after the end of the said forty daies kill or sell any Victual upon the said Day That then every such Butcher shall forfeit and lose for every such offence the sum of six shillings and eight pence The said offences and every of them being done in view of any Iustice of Peace Mayor or other head Officer of any City or Town corporate within their limits respectively or being proved upon Oath by two or more witnesses or by the confession of the party offending before any such Iustice Mayor or head Officer within their several limits respectively wherein such offence shall be committed To which end every such Iustice Mayor or head Officer shall have power by this Act to minister an Oath to such witness or witnesses All which sums or penalties shall or may be levied by any Constable After conviction and by warrant from a Iustice c. the Constables c. may levy the said forfeitures to the use of the poor or they may be recovered by Suit or Church-warden by Warrant from any such Iustice or Iustices of the Peace Mayor or other head Officer as aforesaid within their several limits where such offence shall be committed or done by distress and sale of the Offendors goods rendring to the party the over-plus or shall be recovered by any person or persons that will sue for the same by Bill Plaint or Information in any of his Majesties Courts of Record in any City or Town corporate before his Majesties Iustices of the Peace in their General Sessions of the Peace All which forfeitures shall be employed to and for the use of the poor of the Parishes where the said offences shall be committed or done saving onely that it shall be lawful to and for any such Iustice Mayor or head Officer out of the said Forfeitures to reward any such person or persons that shall inform or otherwise prosecute any person or persons offending against this present Act according to their discretions so that such reward excéed not the third part of the Forfeiture Provided that such Bill Plaint or Information shall be commenced sued and prosecuted in the County City or Town corporate where such offence shall be committed and done and not elsewhere wherein no Essoin Protection or Wager of Law shall be allowed to the Defendant Provided always That it shall be lawful for any Constable or Church-warden that shall have any Suit or Action brought against them for any Distress by them or any of them to be taken by force of this present Act to plead the general Issue and to give the special matter in Evidence Provided likewise That no person or persons whatsoever shall be impeached by this Act unless he be thereof questioned within six moneths after the Offence committed Provided further That this Act shall not in any sort abridge or take away the Authority of the Court Ecclesiastical