said Commissioners shall from time to time if required and at the end of their Proceedings by virtue of this Act give an Account thereof in writing under Five or more of their Hands and Seals to the King and Queen and both Houses of Parliament at their next Meeting VII All Accountants shall make their Accounts in the Exchequer as formerly this Act notwithstanding VIII The Powers hereby Granted shall endure for one Year from the 25th day of January 1690. and no longer IX The Lords Commissioners of the Treasury shall pay 500 l. to each Commissioner for his Care and Pains herein X. The said Commissioners or any Five or more of them shall take an Account what Sums of Money were ordered and paid during the late King James his Reign for Repairing the Fleet and how the same hath been disposed of XI This Act shall give no Authority to the said Commissioners to demand an Account of Money paid to Their Majesties Privy Purse or expended for secret Service XII Nothing in this Act shall hinder the said Commissioners from requiring an Account upon Oath of Pensions Salaries and Sums of Moneys paid or payable to Members of Parliament XIII Stat. 4 5 W. M. c. 11. Sir Thomas Clarges Kt. Sir Peter Colliton Bar. Sir Samuel Barnardiston Bar. Sir Benjamin Newland Kt. Sir Matthew Andrews Kt. Paul Foley Esq and Robert Harley Esq or any four or more of them are hereby constituted Commissioners for taking an Account of the Publick Revenue of the Crown and all other Accounts which by an Act made in the Second Year of Their Majesties Reign Entituled An Act for Appointing and Enabling Commissioners to Examine Take and State the Publick Accounts of the Kingdom were to be taken by Commissioners thereby constituted and the said Act is hereby revived and shall be in force from the 24th of April next to the 25th of April 1694. and be executed by the Commissioners herein named or any four or more of them And the Lords Commissioners of the Treasury shall issue and pay the like Allowances for Clerks and other Charges as the said Act directs and the like quarterly Payments to the Commissioners hereby constituted as by the said Act is appointed to the Commissioners therein named and the Commissioners hereby constituted shall take Accounts of all Their Majesties Revenue and other publick Moneys due and payable to them between the 5th day of November 1688. and the 25th day of April 1694 not yet accounted for by virtue of the said recited Act or the last Clause touching Publick Accounts in one Act in the Third Year of Their Majesties Reign Entituled An Act for Raising Money by a Poll c. Admiralty I. Sat. 2 W. M. Sess 2. c. 2. All and singular Authorities Jurisdictions and Powers which by Act of Parliament or otherwise are vested in the Lord High Admiral of England for the time being have always appertained to and shall be used and executed by the Commissioners of the Admiralty as if they were Lord High Admiral II. Every Officer present upon Tryals of Offenders by Courts Martial to be held by virtue of any Commission granted by the Lord High Admiral or Commissioners of the Admiralty shall before any proceeding to Tryal take this Oath to be administred by the Judge Advocate or his Deputy viz. You shall well and truly try and determine the matter now before you between our Sovereign Lord and Lady the King and Queens Majesties and the Prisoner to be tryed So help you God Bails I. Stat. 4 5 W. M. c. 4. The Judges of the Kings Bench or any two of them whereof the Chief Justice to be one for the Court of Kings Bench and the Judges of the Common-Pleas or any two of them whereof the Chief Justice to be one for the Court of Common-Pleas and the Barons of the Colf of the Exchequer or any two of them whereof the Chief Baron to be one for the Court of Exchequer may by Commissions under the Seals of the said respective Courts from time to time Impower such Persons other then common Attorneys and Solicitors as they shall think fit in all and every the Counties of England and Wales and Town of Berwick to take such Recognizances of Bails as any Persons shall be willing to make before them in any Action or Suit depending or to be depending in the said Courts in Manner and Form as the Justices and Barons of the said Courts have used to take the same Which Recognizances shall be transmitted to some one of the said Justices or Barons respectively who upon Affidavit made of the due taking thereof shall receive the same upon payment of the usual Fees Which Recognizance shall be of like effect as if it were taken de bene esse before any of the said Justices or Barons For taking which Recognizances the Persons impowered shall receive Two Shillings and no more II. The Justices and Barons respectively shall make such Rules for the justifying such Bails as to them shall seem meet so as the Cognizors be not compell'd to appear in person in any of the said Courts unless they live in London or Westminster or within ten Miles thereof to justifie themselves but the same is hereby directed to be determined by Affidavits taken before the Commissioners III. Any Judge of Assize may take such Recognizances which shall be transmitted and received as aforesaid without Oath upon payment of the usual Fees IV. Persons representing or personating others before any impowered by this Act to take Bails shall be adjudged Felons Beer c. I. Stat. Ann. 1. W. M. Sess 1. cap. 22. From and after the twenty fourth of June 1689. any Person may ship off within any of the usual and allowed Ports by Law and at the common Keys and within the usual hours of Excise to be Exported into Foreign Parts in the presence of a sworn Officer to be appointed by the Farmers c. of Excise within the limits where the same shall be shipp'd any strong Ale strong Beer Cyder or Mum paying Custom for the same after the Rate of 1 Shilling per Tun and no other Duty Such Officer to certifie the quantity so shipp'd off to the Commissioners and Officers of Excise where the Entry thereof shall be made who are hereby required to make Allowance or repay the Excise of the Beer Ale Cyder or Mum so Exported to the Brewer or Maker thereof within one Month after such Exportation deducting Three pence per Tun for the Charges of their Officers II. If any Merchant Master of Vessel or other Person shall cause or suffer any Liquors so shipped to be laid on Land or put into any other Vessel within England Wales or the Town of Berwick he shall forfeit the same and 50 l. more for every Cask so unduly landed or put on Board any Vessel the one Moiety to the King and Queen the other to the Informer And Their Majesties Commissioners and Officers of the
his room and in case of neglect or refusal to make such Appointment before the next General Quarter-Sessions after such refusal the Justices of Peace at their General Quarter-Sessions may appoint one VI. Provided always that he shall be liable to all the Penalties Conditions c. hereby mentioned and expressed and may be discharged by the said Justices as aforesaid VII No Custos Rotulorum or other person to whom it doth or shall belong to nominate a Clerk of the Peace shall sâ—ll the said Place directly or indirectly upon the Penalty that every Custos Rotulorum or other person so selling and every Clerk of the Peace so buying shall be disabled to hold their Places and forfeit double the Value of what shall be so given or taken to be recovered by him or them that will sue for the same to their own use by any Action of Debt Suit Bill Plaint or Information in any of Their Majesties Courts at Westminster VIII Every Clerk of the Peace before he enters upon his Office shall in open Sessions take this Oath viz. I A. B. do swear That I have not nor will pay any Sum or Sums of Money or other Reward whatsoever nor have given any Bond or other Assurance to pay any Money Fee or Profit directly or indirectly to any person or persons whomsoever for such Nomination or Appointment So help me God IX Nothing in this Act shall relate to the Clerk of the Peace for the Dutchy and County Palatine of Lancaster X. This Act to commence from the 1st day of May 1689. Churches I. Sat. 4 5 W. M. c. 12. Where any Churches have been or shall be united by virtue of an Act made in the 17th year of the Reign of the late K. Charles the Second and one of them at the time of such Union was or hereafter shall be demolished in such case whenever the Church to which the Union was or shall be made shall be out of Repair or want decent Ornaments the Parishioners of the Parish whose Church shall be down or demolished shall pay towards the Charge of such Repairs and Ornaments in proportion as the Archbishop or Bishop that shall make such Union shall direct and for want of such Direction shall bear one third part of the Charge Clergy I. Stat. 3 4 W. M c. 9. Such as shall rob any person or feloniously take away Goods being in a Dwelling-house the Owner or other person being there and put in fear or shall rob any Dwelling house in the day time any Person being therein or shall be accessary to any of the said Offences or to break any Dwelling-house Shop or Warehouse thereunto belonging or therewith used in the day time and feloniously take away Money or Goods to the value of 5 s. though no person be therein or shall counsel hire or command any person to commit any Burglary being thereof attainted or being indicted thereof shall stand mute or will not directly answer to the Indictment or shall peremptorily challenge above 20 Jurors shall not have the Benefit of their Clergy II. Persons indicted of any offence for which by virtue of any former Law they are excluded from Clergy if convicted by Verdict or Confession shall not be admitted to the Benefit thereof if they stand mute or will not answer directly to the Felony or shall challenge peremptorily above 20. III. Persons indicted for stealing any Goods in any County and thereof convicted or standing mute or not answering directly to the Indictment or challenging peremptorily above 20 shall be excluded from the Benefit of their Clergy if it appear upon Evidence that the said Goods were taken in any other County in such manner as if the said persons had been convicted by a Jury there they should have lost the Benefit of their Clergy IV. Persons buying or receiving stolen Goods knowing them to be stolen shall be deemed Accessaries to the Felony after the Fact V. If any persons shall steal any Chattels c. which by Contract or Agreement they are to use or shall be let to them in Lodgings such stealing shall be adjudged Larceny and Felony VI. If a Woman be convicted of an Offence for which a man might have the Benefit of his Clergy upon her Prayer to have the Benefit of this Statute Judgment of Death shall not be given against her but she shall suffer the same punishment that a man should suffer viz. shall be burnt in the Hand and farther be kept in Prison not exceeding a year VII A Transcript certified by the Clerk of the Crown of the Peace or of the Assizes containing the Tenor of the Indictment and of the persons having had the Benefit of his Clergy or of this Act to the Judges or Justices in any other County shall be a sufficient proof that such persons hath had the Benefit of his Clergy or of this Act. Coals I. Stat. 2 W. M. Sess 2. cap. 7. An Act made in the 16th and 17th years of the Reign of the late K. Charles II. for Regulating the Measures and Prices of Coals is hereby revived and continued from the 1st day of December 1690. for the space of 7 years and from thence to the end of the next Session of Parliament II. Owners of Vessels English built and belonging to the Subjects of England whereof the Master is an Englishman Trading with Coals to and from Newcastle or the Parts adjacent or to Wales to London or any part of England may navigate their Vessels with as many Foreign Seamen as the Master or Owners shall think fit during the present War any thing in an Act made in the 12th year of K. Charles II. Entituled An Act for Encouraging and Encreasing Shipping and Navigation to the contrary notwithstanding The Act of K. Charles the Second hereby Revived is as followeth viz. Stat. 16 17 Car. 2. From and after the 6th of March 1664. all Sea coal brought into the River of Thames and sold shall be sold by the Chaldron containing 36 Bushels heaped up and according to the Bushel sealed for that purpose at Guildhall and all other Coals commonly sold by Weight shall be sold after the proportion of 112 pounds to the Hundred of Avoir du pois on pain to forseit the Coals otherwise sold or exposed to sale and the double value thereof to be recovered by any who will sue for the same in any Court of Record or by Complaint to the Lord Mayor and Justices of Peace within London or any two of them or to the Justices of Peace of the several Counties and Places where such Coals shall be exposed to sale who are hereby empowered to convict the Offenders and to levy the Forfeitures by Warrant one half to the Prosecutor and the other half to the Use of the Poor or Repairing the Highways The Lord Mayor and Court of Aldermen and the Justices of Peace of the several Counties c. or any Three of them whereof one to be of
Subsistence due to any Officer or Souldier shall by any accident not be paid or such Officer or Souldier shall neglect to pay the same so the Quarters cannot be paid as this Act directs and where any Souldiers shall be upon their March so as no Subsistence can be remitted them every such Officer before departure out of his Quarters where such Regiment c. shall remain for any time whatsoever shall make up the Account as this Act directs with those with whom they have quartered before he leave that Quarter and give the said Certificate to the Person to whom such Mony is due with the Name of such Regiment c. to be transmitted to the Pay-master who shall make payment thereof to the end the same may be applied to such Regiment c. under pain as is before directed for non-payment of Quarters XXV No Commistary shall muster any Forces within westminster or Southwark and Liberties thereof but in the presence of two Justices of Peace not being Officers in the Army under the afore-mentioned penalty XXVI This Act shall extend to Jersey and Gernesey as to mustering and paying XXVII Cloaths Arms and Accoutrements of War belonging to Horse Foot and Dragoons who receive English pay shall be bought in England Wales or Barwick and Officers offending therein shall be cashiered XXVIII The Commissary General of the Musters or his Deputies shall upon every Muster close the Muster-Rolls upon the place the same the Muster is taken and return one of the Rolls in Parchment to the Pay-master General the next day after if in London or within twenty miles distance and if at a farther distance by the next Post on pain of losing their Imployments XXIX Justices of Peace required by Order of his or her Majesty shewn to them by any Officer of the Regiment c. then marching shall issue out their Warrants to the Constables c. to make such provision of Carriages as is mentioned in the Warrant allowing sufficient time that the Neighbouring Parts may not always bear the Burthen and the Officer demanding such Carriages shall pay to the Constable to whom the Warrant is directed 8 d. for every mile any Waggon with 5 Horses shall travel loaden and 8 d. for every mile any Waggon with 6 Oxen or 4 Oxen and 2 Horses shall trevel loaden and 6 d. a Mile for a Cart with 4 Horses and so in proportion and if any Officer shall constrain any Carriage to travel more than one days Journy or not discharge them in due time for their return or shall suffer his Souldiers or Servants except sick and wounded or any Women to ride in such Carriage or shall force any Constables c. by Threats to provide Saddle-horses or shall force Horses from the Owners he shall forfeit 5 l. for every such Offence proof thereof being made upon Oath before two Justices of Peace who are to certifie the same to the Pay-master General who shall pay the said Sum of 5 l. according to the appointment of such Justices and deduct it out of such Officers Pay XXX If any Officer Military or Civil hereby authorized to quarter Souldiers shall quarter the Wives Children or Maid-servants of Officers or Souldiers in any House against the Owners consent the Offender if any Officer or Souldier of the Army shall upon proof thereof made to the Commander in Chief of the Army or the Judge Advocate be cashier'd if a Civil Officer he shall forfeit 20 s. to the Party grieved upon proof made to the next Justice of Peace to be levied by distress and sale of Goods rendring the overplus XXXI If any Officer or Souldier shall without leave of the Lord of the Mannor under Hand and Seal take or destroy any Game and shall be convicted thereof upon Oath before a Justice of Peace he shall forfeit if an Officer 5 l. to be distributed among the Poor of the Parish and every Officer commanding in Chief shall forfeit for every such Offence committed by any Souldier under his Command 10 s. to be distributed as aforesaid and for default of payment within two days after Conviction and Demand thereof made by the Constable or Overseer of the Poor the Officer so refusing or neglecting is hereby declared to have forfeited his Commission and his Commission is hereby made null and void XXXII An account of all Monies due according to the Muster-Rolls to every Regiment shall be made upon the first day of July 1693. or six days after between the Pay-master General and the Colonel of every Regiment or his Agent authorized to receive the Pay thereof from the first of March 1692. to the last of April 1693. and so from time to time when four Months become due an Account shall be stated for the two preceding Months such Accounts being perfected to be registred in the Pay-Office and subscribed by the Pay-master or his Deputy and the Colonel or his Agent and Duplicates given to the Colonel c. without Fee who shall deliver to each Captain an account of so much as appertains to him and his Troop c. and the Ballance which shall remain and all other Monies then due to each Regiment shall be paid to such Colonel c. when their Majesties shall direct The Pay-master General or any Colonel offending herein shall forfeit 100 l. for every Offence to him that will sue for the same and his Deputy or any Agent of a Regiment offending in the Premises upon proof thereof at a Court-Martial shall lose his Place XXXIII No Warrant to take off the respits from any Muster-Rolls shall be allowed by any Pay-master unless countersigned by the Commissioners of the Treasury or the Lord High Treasurer Suits I. Stat. 1 W. M. Sess 2. cap. 8. Whereas about the time of his Majesties enterprize for delivering this Kingdom from Popery and Arbitrary Power and in Aid of the same divers Lords Gentlemen and others did act as Lieutenants Deputy-Lieutenants Justices of the Peace or other Officers though not sufficiently authorized thereunto and did apprehend and put in custody some suspected Persons and seize and use Horses Arms and other Things and entred into the Houses and Possessions of several Persons and quartered Souldiers there and since their Majesties happy Accession to the Crown by reason of the Wars and Tumults occasioned by their Enemies divers like Matters and Things have been done all which were necessary in regard of the exigency of publick Affairs Be it enacted That all Prosecutions whatsoever and Judgments had thereupon if any be for any of the Premisses or any Matter or Thing advised commanded appointed or done in order to the bringing their Majesties to this Kingdom or for their Service or for the Safety of the Government are hereby discharged and made void and if any such Prosecution shall be the Party prosecuted may plead the General Issue and give this Act and the Special Matter in Evidence and if the Plaintiff become non-suit or sorbear Prosecution or
Books and Pamphlees and for regulating Printing and Printing Presses shall be in force for One year from the 13th of February 1692. and from thence to the end of the next Session of â—arliament XVII All Jurors other then Strangers upon Tryals per medietatem linguae return'd upon Tryal of Issues joyn'd in the Kings-Bench Common-Pleas or Exchequer or before Justices of Assize or Nisi prius Oyer and Terminer Goal-delivery or General Quarter-Sessions of the Peace after the 1st Day of May 1693. within any County of England shall have in their own Name or in Trust for them within the same County 10 l. a year at least above Reprizes of Free-hold or Coppy-hold Lands or of Lands in ancient Demesne or in Rents in Fee-simple or Fee-tail or for their own or some other Persons Life And in every County of Wales such Jurors shall have 6 l. a year at least as aforesaid All which Persons having such Estates are hereby made liable to serve as aforesaid If any be return'd of lesser Estate it shall be good cause of Challenge and the Party return'd shall be discharged upon such Challenge or upon his own Oath Nor shall any Jury-man's Issues making default be saved but by special Order of the Court or Judges for some reasonable Cause proved upon Oath And the Ven. fac for Impannelling Juries in England shall run thus viz. Rex c. praecipimus c. quod Ven. fac coram c. duodecim liberos legales homines de vicineto de A quor ' quilibet habeat decem Librat terrae tenementor ' vel reddit ' per annum ad minus per quos c. qui nee c. and the residue after the ancient manner and the Writs for Returning Juries in Wales shall be in like manner altering only the Word decem for sex And Sheriffs Coroners and other Ministers returning in any such Pannel any Person not having 10 l. or 6 d. respectively by the Year as aforesaid shall forfeit for every such Person so Returned the Sum of Five Pounds to Their Majesties XVIII No Sheriff or Bayliff of any Liberty or their Ministers shall return any such Persons to have been Summoned by them unless they shall have been Summoned Six days at least before the Day on which they ought to make their Appearance nor shall take any Reward to excuse the Appearance of any Juror Summoned or Return'd on Pain to Forfeit for every such Offence 10 l. to Their Majesties XIX Saving to all Cities Boroughs and Towns Corporate their ancient Usage of returning Jurors in such manner as hath been accustomed XX. Provided that it shall be Lawful to Return Persons upon the Tales in any County within England who shall have 5 l. a year above Reprizes and within Wales 3 l. a year XXI No Fee or Reward shall be taken by any Person whatsoever upon the Account of any Tales return'd upon Pain to Forfeit 10 l. for every such Offence the one Moity to the Prosecutor and the other to Their Majesties XXII No Writ de non ponendis in Assisis Juratis shall be granted unless upon Oath made that the Suggestions are true XXIII So much of this Act as relates to the returning of Jurors to be in force for Three years from the 1st of May 1693. and from thence to the end of the next Session of Parliament Corn. I. Stat. 1 W. M. Sess I. cap. 12. When Malt or Barley Winchester Measure shall be at 24 s. per Quarter or under Rye at 32 s. per Quarter or under and Wheat at 48 s. per Quarter or under in any Port of this Kingdom or Wales Merchants and others who shall put on Ship-board in English Shiping the Master and Two thirds of the Mariners being Their Majesâ—ies Subjects any sorts of the Corn aforesaid to Export the same beyond Sea shall bring Certificates under their Hands containing the quantity and quality of the Corn shipped to the Persons appointed to Collect the Customs in any such Port and upon Proof made of such Certificate by one or more Credible Persons upon Oath and upon Bond given by such Merchant or other Person in â—00 l. for every hundred Tuns of Corn so shipped and so proportionably that the said Corn dangers of the Seas excepted shall be Exported into Parts beyond the Sea and not be landed in England Wales Guernsey Jersey or Berwick shall receive from the Persons appointed to Collect the Customs as aforesaid for every Quarter of Barley or Malt ground or unground 2 s. 6 d. for every Quarter of Rye 3 s. 6 d. for every Quarter of Wheat 5 s. and shall pay no Custom nor any Fee or Reward for Corn so laden to be Exported And upon Certificate under the Common Seal of the Chief Magistrate in any Place beyond Sea or under the Hand and Seals of Two known English Merchants upon the Place that such Corn was there Landed or upon Proof by Credible Persons that such Corn was taken by Enemies or Perished at Sea the Examination and Proof thereof being left to the Receivers of the Customs the Bond shall be delivered up to be Cancelled And the Moneys so paid shall be allowed as paid to Their Majesties Courts I. Stat. 1 W. M. Stss 1. cap. 27. Whereas by a Statute made in the 34th and 35th years of the Reign of King H. 8. Entituled An Act for certain Ordinances in the King's Majesties Dominion and Principality of Wales It is Enacted That there shall be and remain a President and Council in the said Dominion and Principality of Wales and the Matches of the same with all Officers Clerks and Incidents thereunto in Manner and Form as hath been heretofore used and accustomed Which President and Council shall have Power and Authority to Hear and Determine by their Wisdoms and Diseretions such Causes or Matters as be or hereafter shall be Assign'd to them by the King's Majesty as heretofore hath been accustomed and used Be it Enacted that the said Clause be Repealed and that the said Court before the President and Council be dissolved and taken away II The Justices of the Great Sessions in Wales shall yearly Nominate Three Persons for each Shire in their Circuits to be Sheriffs of the same and certifie the same to the Lords of the Privy Council Crastino animarum that Their Majesties may appoint one of them to be Sheriff for that year III. Errors in Pleas personal within Wales shall be redressed by Writ of Error as Errors in Pleas real and mixt are appointed to be redrest by the said Statute of 34 and 35 of King H 8. IV. Judgments and Decrees passed in the said Court before the 1st Day of June 1689. shall remain in force and execution upon them in the same State in which they were before the making this Act. Crown-Office I. Stat. 4 5 W. M. cap. 22. No Corporations Lords of Manors or others having Grants by Charter or other good Conveyances who have
next Session of Parliament VIII Stat. 4. 5. W. M. cap. 16. If any Persons shall borrow any Money or for any other valuable Consideration for the payment thereof shall acknowledge or suffer to be Entered against them a Judgment Statute or Recognizance and shall afterwards borrow any other Sum of any other Persons or for other valuable Consideration and for securing the Repayment or Discharge thereof shall morgage Lands to the Second or other Lender or Lenders or to any other Persons in Trust for him or them and shall not give notice to the Morgagee of such Judgment Statute or Recognizance in writing before the Execution of the said Morgage unless such Morgager or his Heirs upon notice given by the Morgagee in writing under Hand and Seal Attested by Two or more Witnesses of such former Judgment c. shall within Six Months Pay off and Discharge the same and cause the same to be vacated or discharged by Record such Morgager shall have no Benefit in Equity for Redemption of the Lands Morgaged IX If any Person who hath or shall once Morgage Lands for security of Money or for other valuable Considerations shall again Morgage the same Lands or any part thereof to any other Persons the former Morgage being in force and shall not discover to the Second Morgagee the First Morgage in writing such Morgager shall have no Relief or Equity of Redemption against the Second Morgagee X. But such Second or other Morgagees may Redeem any former Morgage XI This Act shall not extend to bar any Widow of any Morgager from her Dower who did not legally joyn with her Husband in such Morgage or otherwise Lawfully exclude her self Game I. STat. 4 5 W. M. cap. 23. All Laws and Statutes in Force for the better Preservation of the Game of this Kingdom and every Clause and thing therein not hereby Altered or Repealed shall be duly put in Execution II. Constables Head-boroughs and Tything men by a Justice of Peace his Warrant may and are Required to enter into and search in such manner as by An Act for the more effectual Discovery and Punishment of Deer-stealers made in the Third and Fourth Year of Their Majesties Reign is provided in Case of Venison or Skin of any Deer or Toyles Houses of Suspected Persons not qualified and in Case any Game shall be found the Offender shall be carried before a Justice of Peace and if he do not give a good Account how he came thereby or produce the Party of whom he bought it in some convenient Time or some Credible Person to depose upon Oath such Sale thereof he shall be Convicted of such Offence by the said Justice and Forfeit for every Hare Partridge c. or other Game any Sum not under 5 s. and not exceeding 20 One Moiety to the Informer and the other to the Poor of the Parish where the Offence was Committed to be Levied by Distress and Sale of his Goods rendring the Overplus and for want of a Distress shall be Committed to the House of Correction for any time not exceeding a Month nor less then Ten days there to be Whipt and Kept to Labour And if any Person not qualified by Law do keep or use any Bows Greyhounds Setting-dogs Ferrets Coney-dogs Hays Lurchers Netts Tunnels Low-bells Hare-pipes Snares or other Instruments for destruction of Game and shall be Convicted as aforesaid he shall be subject to the Pains and Penalties aforesaid And if any Person so Charged shall not before the same Justice give such Evidence of his Innocence as aforesaid he shall be Convicted thereof in like manner as the Person First Charged therewith is hereby directed to be and so from person to person till the First Offender be discovered III. Lords of Manors and other Royalties or any Authorized by them shall and may Oppose and Resist such Offenders in the Night time within their respective Manors and Royalties as if such Fact had been Committed in any ancient Chase Park or Warren Enclosed IV. No persons whatsoever shall after the 25th day of March 1693. keep any Net Angle Leap Piche or other Engine for taking Fish other then the Makers and Sellers thereof for their better convenience in the Sale thereof and other then the Owner or Occupier of a River or Fishery And Owners or Occupiers of Rivers and Fisheries and such as they shall Authorize may seize and keep to their own Use any such Engine which shall be found used by or in the possession of any Person whatsoever fishing in any River or Fishery without the consent of the Owner or Occupier And also any Person whatsoever Authorized by Warrant under the Hand and Seal of a Justice of Peace may search the Houses and other Places of Persons Prohibited and Suspected to have in their Custody any such Engines and the same to seize and keep to their own use or to destroy V. This Act shall not extend to abridge Fishermen or their Apprentices Lawfully Authorized to Fish in Navigable Rivers or Waters with Lawful Nets and Engines VI. No Certiorari shall be allowed to remove any Conviction or other Proceeding concerning any matter in this Act unless the Parties against whom such Conviction shall be shall before the Allowance thereof become bound to the Prosecutor in the Sum of 50 l. with Sureties to be Approved of by the Justice or Justices of Peace before whom such Offender was Convicted to pay to the Prosecutor within a month after such Conviction Confirmed or Proceedendo Granted their full Costs and Charges to be ascertain'd upon Oath VII Offenders Punished by force of this Act shall not incur the Penalty of any other Law for the same Offence VIII Persons prosecuted at Law for any thing done in pursuance of this Act may Plead the General Issue and give this Act or any other special Matter in Evidence and if the Verdict pass for the Defendants or the Plaintiffs become Non-suit or suffer a discontinuance the Defendants shall recover Treble Costs IX If any inferior Tradesman Apprentice or other dissolute Person shall Hunt Hawk Fish or Fowl unless in Company with the Master of such Apprentice qualified by Law they shall be subject to the Penalties of this Act and may be sued for Trespass in coming upon any persons Ground in which Suit the Plaintiff shall recover his Damages and full Costs X. For the better preserving the Red and Black Game of Growse commonly called Heath cooks or Heath-colts no person whatsoever on any Mountains Hills Heaths Moors Forests Chases or other Wasts shall burn between the Second Day of February and the Twenty fourth of June any Grig Ling Heath Furz Gross or Fern on pain of being Committed to the House of Correction for any Time not exceeding a Month nor under Ten Days there to be Whipt and kept to hard Labour Gold and Silver I. Sat. 1. W. M. Sess 1. cap. 30. Whereas by a Statute made in the 5th Year of King Henry
the Fourth It was Enacted That none from thenceforth should use to multiply Gold or Silver or use the Craft of Multiplication and if any the same do they should incur the pain of Felony Be it Enacted that the said Branch Article or Sentence be Repealed II. Provided that all Gold and Silver that shall be Extracted by the Art of Melting and Refining Metals and otherwise Improving them and their Ores shall be employed for the encrease of Moneys and no otherwise and that the Place hereby Appointed for the disposal thereof shall be the Mint in the Tower of London where they shall receive the Value of their Gold and Silver so Extracted III. No Mine of Copper Tin Iron or Lead shall hereafter be adjudged to be a Royal Mine though Gold or Silver may be Extracted out of the same Government I. Stat. 1. W. M. Sess 1. cap. 2. An Act for Impowring His Majesty to Apprehend and Detain such Persons as he shall find just cause to suspect are Conspiring against the Government EXP. II. Stat. 1. W. M. Sess 1. cap. 7. An Act for Impowring His Majesty to Apprehend and Detain such Persons as he shall find just Cause to suspect are Conspiring against the Government III. Stat. Ann. 1. W. M. Sess 1. cap 19. All Persons that shall be in Prison the 25th Day of May 1689. or after by Warrant of Their Majesties Privy Council Signed by Six of the Council for Suspicion of High Treason or Treasonable Practices may be detained in Custody without Bail or Main-prize till the 23d Day of October 1689. And no Judge or Court of Justice shall Bail or Try any such Persons without Order from Their Majesties Privy Council Signed by Six till the said 23d of October IV. From and after the said 23d of October such Persons shall have the Benefit of the Habeas Corpus Act and of all other Statutes providing for the Liberty of the Subjects V. Nothing in this Act shall extend to Prejudice the Ancient Rights and Priviledges of Parliament VI. A true Copy of every Warrant for such Commitment shall be Entred and Kept by the Clerks of the Privy Council in a Book apart and Signed by such of the Privy Council as shall Grant the Warrant and no Warrant not so Entred and Signed and Kept shall be adjudged to be a Warrant by Virtue of this Act. VII Stat. 2. W. M. Sess 1. cap. 6. Whensoever and as often as His Majesty shall be absent out of England It shall be Lawful for the Queen to Exercise and Administer the Regal Power and Government in the Names of both Their Majesties for such time only during Their Joint Lives as His Majesty shall be absent out of England VIII Nothing in this Act shall debar His Majesty during such absence from the Exercise of Administration of any Act or Acts of Regal Power or Government and neither the passing this Act nor His Majesties Royal Voyage or Absence shall Dissolve this present Parliament or determine any Commissions Granted by His Majesty nor avoid any other Act of Government executed or to be execured by him IX Provided That as often as His Majesty shall return into England the sole Administration of the Regal Power and Government shall be in His Majesty only Hair-Buttons I. STat. 4. 5. W. M. cap. 10. No Foreign Buttons made of Hair nor other Foreign Buttons whatsoever shall be Imported or Bartered Sold or Exchanged on pain to Forfeit the Buttons so Imported Bartered Sold or Exchanged and under such farther Penalties as are expressed in an Act made in the 14th year of the Reign of the late King Charles 2d Entituled An Act Prohibiting the Importation of Foreign Bone lace Cut-work Imbroidery c. One Moiety to Their Majesties and the other to the Informer II. The Justices of Peace within their respective Divisions shall have the same Authority and Power to issue their Warrants to seize all Foreign Buttons whatsoever that by the said Act is given them to seize Foreign Buttons made of Thread and Silk Hearth-Doney I. Stat. 1. W. M. Sess 1. cap. 10. An Act made in the Parliament begun at Westminster the 8th of May in the 13th year of King Charles 2d Entituled An Act for the Establishing an Additional Revenue upon His Majesty His Heirs and Successors for the better Support of His and Their Crown and Dignity And another Act made in the Second Session of the said Parliament in the 15th year of the said King's Reign Entituled An Additional Act for the better Ordering and Collecting the Revenue arising by Hearth-Money And another Act made in the 16th year of the said King's Reign Entituled An Act for Collecting the Duty arising by Hearth-Money by the Officers to be Appointed by His Majesty are hereby Repealed and made Void II. Nothing in this Act shall hinder or prejudice the Levying the said Revenue arising by Hearth-money which shall grow due on the 25th of March 1689. and all Arrears of the said Duty now due and payable by the said Acts. High-ways I. Stat. 3 4 W. M. cap. 12. The Laws and Statutes in force touching the High ways not hereby altered or repealed shall be put in Execution II. Upon the 26th day of Decemb. yearly unless that day be Sunday and then on the 27th day the Constables Headboroughs Tything-men Churchwardens Surveyors of the High-ways and Inhabitants in every Parish shall assemble and the major Part of the Assembly shall make a List of the Names of a competent Number of the Inhabitants who have an Estate in Land in their own Right or their Wives of 10 l. per annum or a personal Estate of 100 l. or are Occupiers of Houses Lands c. of the yearly value of 30 l. if such there be and if not then a List of the most sufficient Inhabitants and return it to Two or more Justices of the Peace at a Special Sessions to be held for that purpose on the third day of January next following or within Fifteen days after For which purpose the Justices are required to hold a Special Sessions and to give notice to the Constables Headboroughs c. of every Parish within the Division Ten days before the holding of the same and out of the said Lists by Warrant under their Hands and Seals they shall nominate One Two or more to be Surveyor or Surveyors of the High-ways of every Parish within the Division or for any Hamlet Precinct Town c. of and in the same for the year ensuing Which Nomination shall by the Constables c. be notified to the persons nominated within six days by serving them with the Warrants or leaving the same or a Copy thereof at their Houses And if the Persons so nominated shall refuse or neglect to take upon them the said Office they shall forfeit 5 l. to be on their Goods by Distress and Sale thereof by Warrant of Two Justices of the Peace which Warrant the Justices are
Overplus Charges deducted XVII No such Assessments to be made in any one year shall exceed 6 d. in the Pound of the yearly Value of Lands c. nor of 6 d. for 20 l. in personal Estate XVIII If any Persons find themselves aggrieved by such Assessments or any Act by the Justices of Peace the Justices of Peace at their General Quarter-Sessions shall take order therein which shall conclude all Parties XIX None shall be punished for any Offence against this Act unless he be prosecuted within six Months after the Offence committed nor shall any person punished by Virtue of this Act be punished for the same Offence by Virtue of any former Law XX. No Horse-cawsey shall be under Three Foot in breadth XXI The Justices of Peace for Middlesex may at their Quarter-Sessions make Rates for paving Kensington in such manner as is directed by an Act made in the second Year of Their Majesties Reign for Paving and Cleansing the Streets of London and Westminster XXII All matters concerning High-ways c. shall be determined in the County where they lie and not elsewhere and no Presentment Indictment or Order made by Virtue of this Act shall be removed by Certiorari out of the County XXIII The Justices of Peace of every County at their Quarter-Sessions after Easter yearly shall assess the Prices of all Land-Carriage of Goods to be brought into any place within their Jurifdictions by any common Waggoner or Carrier and shall certifie such Rates to the Mayors or other chief Officers of every Markeâ—-Town and Waggoners or Carriers taking more then what shall be so assessed shall forfeit for every such Offence 5 l. to be levied by Distress and sale of Goods by Warrant of Two Justices to the Use of the party grieved XXIV In Actions commenced against any persons authorized to put this Act in Execution the Defendants may plead the General Issue and give this Act and the special Matter in Evidence and if the Plaintiff be Non-suit or forbear prosecution or discontinue or a Verdict pass against him the Defendant shall recover his double Costs XXV Stat. 4 5 W. M. cap. 9. The Toll mentioned in the Act made in the 15th year of the Reign of K. Charles II. Entituled An Act for Repairing the High-ways in the Counties of Hertford Cambridge and Huntington And in an Act made in the 16th and 17th years of the said late King for Continuance of the said Act to be taken at Wades Mill in Hertford-shire shall be revived and taken again in the manner by the said Acts mention'd for Fifteen years the Moneys thereby arising to be employed according to the Tenor of the said Acts. XXVI Provided that if the said High ways before the end of Fifteen years be in sufficient Repair and an Adjudication be made thereof at the Assize or General Quarter-Sessions of the County as is provided by the said Statute of 16 and 17 Car. II. the said Toll shall from thenceforth cease XXVII The several Officers and Persons impowered by the said former Acts so far as relates to the County of Hertford shall have the like Powers by Virtue of this Act and all Clauses in the said Acts concerning the Collecting Paying Ingaging or Accounting for the said Toll shall by Virtue of this Act be renewed and put in Execution as if here again repeated High-way-men I. Stat. 4 5 W. M. cap. 8. Every Person who shall apprehend one or more High-way-men and prosecute them till they be convicted shall have from the Sheriff of the County where such Conviction shall be without paying any Fee 40 l. within a Month after such Conviction and Demand thereof made by Certificate under the Judges Hand before whom such Conviction shall be and if any Dispute arise between the persons apprehending such Felons touching their Right to the said Reward the Judges certifying shall in their Certificate direct the Reward to be paid amongst them in such Proportion as they shall think reasonable And if any such Sheriff shall die or be removed before the end of the Month the Reward being unpaid the succeeding Sheriff shall pay it within a Month after Demand and Certificate as aforesaid The Sheriff in case of Default of payment shall forfeit double the Sum he ought to pay to the Persons to whom the Reward is due to be recovered by Action of Debt Bill Plaint or Information c. with treble Costs of Suit II. If any person shall happen to be killed by such High-way-man endeavouring to apprehend him his Executors or Administrators upon Certificate under Hand and Seal of a Judge of Assize for the County or of two next Justices of Peace shall receive the said Sum of 40 l. and in Failure of payment shall recover double the Sum with treble Costs of Suit as aforesaid III. The Sheriffs to be Allowed the said Sums of 40 l. upon their Accounts without Fee or Reward IV. If upon the Account of any Sheriff there shall not be sufficient in his Hands to Reimburse him the same shall be Paid by the Commissioners of the Treasury out of the Revenue of the Crown upon Certificate from the Clerk of the Pipe V. Persons Apprehending or Convicting such Robbers as a farther Reward shall have their Horses Furniture Arms Money and other Goods taken with them Provided that this Clause shall not take away the Right of any Persons from whom the same were before Feloniously taken VI. If any Persons out of Prison shall Commit any Robbery and shall afterwards discover Two or more Robbers who have or shall Commit any Robbery so as Two or more of them shall be Convicted such discoverer is hereby â—ntituled to Their Majesties Pardon which shall likewise be a good bar to any Appeal Informations I. Stat. 4 5 W. M. cap. 18. The Clerk of the Crown of the King's-Bench shall not without express Order in open Court Receive or File any Information for Trespasses Batteries and other Misdemeanours or issue any Process thereupon before he shall have taken or shall have delivered to him a Recognizance from the Informer with the Place of his Abode Title or Profession to be Entred to the Person Prosecuted in 20 l. Penalty to Prosecute with Effect and abide by such Order as the Court shall direct which Recognizance the Clerk of the Crown or a Justice of Peace of the Place where the Cause of any such Information shall arise may take and the Clerk of the Crown shall Enter the same upon Record and File a Memorandum thereof in some publick Place in his Office that all persons may resort thereunto without Fee And if the persons against whom such Informations shall be exhibited appear and plead to Issue and that the Prosecutor shall not at his own Charge within a year after Issue joyned procure a Tryal or if upon such Tryal a Verdict pass for the Defendant or the Informer procure a noli prosequi to be Entred the Court shall award the
next Justice of Peace by two Witnesses or upon Certificate under Hand of the Commissary of the Musters or Chief Magistrate as aforesaid made to such Justice shall be committed to the House of Correction for ten days and have his Ear cut off by the Gaoler or Keeper thereof If any Person lend a Horse to be mustered not belonging to the Troop such Horse shall be forfeited to the Informer if it belong to the Person lending if not the Lender shall forfeit 20 l. upon Oath made by two Witnesses before the next Justice of Peace XIV The said Forfeiture to be to the Informer to be paid out of the Arrears of such Officers Pay as shall so offend upon Conviction before a Court-Martial by Order of the said Court to the Pay-Master if such Officer have any Arrears and if there be no Arrear the Court-Martial shall give order to seize such Officers Goods and sell them rendring the overplus and if he have no Goods he shall be sent to the Common Gaol to remain there six months and the Court-Martial shall discharge such Informer if he be a Souldier from any farther Service if he demand it XV. If any Pay-Master Clerk or Agent of a Regiment Troop or Company shall for a month detain the Pay of any Officer or Souldier Cloaths and other Allowances deducted or if any Officers shall refuse to pay each Common Souldier their respective Pay when due if themselves have received it at the rate of 17 s. 6 d. a Week for a Corporal or light Horse 14 s. a Week for a Trumpeter and private Trooper 8 s. 2 d. a Week for a Dragoon 7 s. a Week to a Sergeant 5 s. a Week to each Corporal and Drummer and 4 s. a Week to each private Souldier of the two Regiments of Foot-guards and 6 s. a Week to each Sergeant 4 s. 6 d. a Week to each Corporal and Drummer and 3 s. a Week for each Foot Souldier in the Army and over and above the said 3 s. a Week shall at every two Months end account for 6 d. a Week to each Foot-Souldier upon proof thereof before a Court-Martial as aforesaid such Pay-Master c. shall be discharged from his Employment and forfeit 100 l. to the Informer to be raised as aforesaid and be disabled to hold any Civil or Military Office or Employment and the Informer if a Souldier shall be discharged of any farther Service if he demand it XVI The commanding Officer of every Troop or Company at Musters shall bring a Certificate of the Names of such as are sick or have leave to be absent of such as are dead or deserted since the last Muster and if such Certificate prove false the Officer signing it shall suffer the Penalties hereby inflicted for making false Musters XVII If any Officer shall Muster any Officers Servant or any Person by a wrong Name knowingly upon conviction thereof before a Court-Martial he shall suffer the Penalties hereby inflicted for making false Musters XVIII During the continuance of this Act Constables Tythingmen Headboroughs and other Chief Magistrates of Cities Towns and Villages may Quarter and Billet Officers and Souldiers in Inns Livery-Stables Ale-houses Victualling-houses Houses selling Brandy Strong-waters Sider or Metheglin by retail to be drunk in their Houses but in no private Houses Nor shall more Billets be ordered than there are effective Souldiers present to be quartered If any Magistrate shall Billet any Officer or Souldier in any private House without consent of the Occupier such Occupier shall have his Remedy at Law to recover his Damage sustained thereby And if any Military Officer shall take upon him to quarter Souldiers otherwise than is hereby allowed or shall use Menace or Compulsion upon any Civil Officers afore-mention'd to deter them from performing their Duty herein upon conviction by the Oaths of two Witnesses before two or more Justices of Peace and the said Justices Certificate thereof to the Judge Advocate who is hereby obliged to certifie the same to the next Court-Marshal such Officer shall be taken to the ipso facto cashiered and disabled to hold any Military Employment XIX Officers and Souldiers so billetted shall pay such reasonable prices as shall be appointed by the Justices of Peace in their Quarter-Sessions and the Justices of Peace are required to set Rates for Provisions for one or more Nights in their marching and for the first Night only in Places appointed for their Residence XX. Officers taking Mony for excusing quartering shall be cashiered and made incapable of any Military Employment XXI From and after the 10th of March 1692. no Pay-Master or other Officer shall receive any Fees or make any Deductions out of the Pay of any Officer or Souldier which shall grow due after the said 10th day of March other than the usual Deductions for Cloathing and the 12 d. in the pound to be disposed as their Majesties think fit and one days Pay in the Year for the use of Chelsey-Colledge XXII This Act shall be read at the Head of every Regiment Troop or Company at every Muster that no Souldier may pretend Ignorance XXIII Officers receiving Pay or Subsistence-Mony for Regiments Troops or Companies shall upon the receipt of every Sum give notice to all Inn-keepers and other Persons where Officers and Souldiers are quartered and appoint them to repair to their Quarters at such times as they shall appoint for distribution thereof which shall be within four days after they have received it and such Inn-keepers and other Persons shall be paid off what Debts are owing to them before any part of the said Pay or Subsistence be distributed to the Officers or Souldiers XXIV Provided such Debts exceed not for a Commission Officer of Horse under the Degree of a Captain for Dyet and small Beer Hay and Straw per diem 2 s. and for such a Commission Officer of Dragoons 1 s. and 6 d. nor for such a Commission Officer of Foot 1 s. and if such Officers shall have a Horse or Horses for each Horse 6 d. per diem nor for one Light-horse-mans Dyet and small Beer and Hay and Straw per diem 1 s. nor for one Dragoon 9 d. nor for a Foot Souldiers Dyet and small Beer 4 d. and if any Officer shall not give notice as aforesaid and upon producing such Accounts pay the same upon Oath made thereof by two Witnesses at the next Quarter-Sessions the Pay-masters of their Majesties Forces are hereby required upon Certificate of the said Justices of the Sums due upon such Accounts and the Persons to whom owing to satisfie them out of the Arrears due to such Officer on pain to lose their Places and to be disabled to hold them for the future And if there be no Arrear the Pay-masters shall deduct what they shall pay pursuant to such Certificate out of the next Pay or Subsistence-Mony of the Regiment to which such Officer belongs and such Officer shall be ipso facto cashiered and when the
the Quorum shall set prices of Coals to be sold by Retail And if any Ingrosser or Retailer of Coals refuse to sell as aforesaid the Lord Mayor Aldermen and Justices of Peace respectively shall impower whom they think fit to enter into any place where such Coals are stored up and in case of refusal taking a Constable to force Entrance and to sell the said Coals at the prices set as aforesaid rendring the Money to the Owner Charges deducted This Act to continue for 3 years and to the end of the next Session of Parliament No person sued by virtue of this Act shall be sued upon any other for the same Offence and if any Action be prosecuted for any thing done by colour hereof the Defendant may plead the General Issue and give the Special Matter in Evidence and if the Verdict be found for him or the Plaintiff become Nonsuit he shall recover his Damages and double Costs No Person having any Interest in a Wharf used for Coals or Trading in Coals in his own or any others name or engrossing the same in order to sell them shall intermeddle in the setting the price of Coals Continuance I. Stat. 4. 5. W. M. cap. 24. Entituled An Act for Providing Carriages by Land and by Water for the use of His Majesties Navy and Ordnance shall be in force for Seven years from the 13th day of February 1692. and from thence to the end of the First Session of Parliament then next ensuing II. An Act Entitused An Act for encouraging of Coynage made in the 18th Year of King Charles 2. And another Act made in the 25th Year of the same King Entituled An Act for continuing a former Act concerning Coynage shall be in force from the 13th Day of February 1692 and to the end of the First Session of Parliament then next ensuing III. An Act made in the 2â—th and 23th Years of the Reign of the same King Entituled An Act for the better and more certain recovery of Fines and Forfeitures due to His Majesty shall be in force and is hereby made perpâ—tual IV. All Officers to whom it belongeth to make returns of Estreats into the Court of Exchequer shall upon the delivery in of all and every such Estreat and Estreats take this Oath viz. You shall Swear that these Estrates now by you delivered are trult and carefully made up and examined and that all Fines Issues Americaments Recognizances and Forfeitures which were Set Lost Imposed or Forfeited and in right and due course of Law ought to be estreated into the Court of Exchequer are to the best of your Knowledge and Understanding therein contained And that in the same Estreats are also contained and expressed all such Fines as have been paid into the Court from which the said Estreats are made without any wilful or fraudalent Discharge Omission Misnomer or Defect whatsoever So help you God Which Oath any of the Barons of the Exchequer shall Administer V. An Act made in the 22th and 23th Year of the same King Entituled An Act to prevent the Planting of Tobacco in England and for Regulating the Plantation Trade shall be in full force for Seven Years from the said 13th Day of February 1692. and from thence to the end of the next Session of Parliament VI. An Act made in the 19th Year of the same King Entituled An Act for Assigning Orders in the Exchequer shall be in force for Seven years from the said 13th Day of February 1692. and from thence to the end of the next Session of Parliament VII Whereas an Act made in the 22th and 23th years of the same King Entituled An Act to revice an Act Entituled An Act to prevent the disturbance of Seamen and others and to preserve the Stores belonging to His Majesties Navy Royal with some Alterations and Additions was by an Act made in the 1st Year of the Reign of the late K. James Enacted to be in force for Seven years and from thence to the end of the 1st Session of the next Parliament The said last mentioned Act shall be continued for Seven years from the said 13th of February 1692. and from thence to the end of the next Session of Parliament VIII An Act made in the 22d and 23d of the said K. C. 2. Entituled An Act to prevent Frauds in the buying and selling of Cattle in Smithfield and elsewhere together with a Proviso in an Act made the 1st year of the late K. James for the Reviving and Continuance thereof That the said Act should not extend to Salesmen or Factors employed by Farmers or Feeders shall be in force for Seven years from the 13th of February 1692. and from thence to the end of the next Session of Parliament IX An Act made in the 1st year of Their Majesties Reign Entituled An Act for the better preventing the Exportation of Wooll and encouraging the Woollen Manufacture of this Kingdom except such part thereof as relates to the free Exportation of the Woollen Manufacture shall be in force for Three years from the said 13th day of February 1692. and from thence to the end of the next Session of Parliament X Provided that no Wooll shall be Imported from Ireland into the Port of Exeter any thing in this or any former Act to the contrary notwithstanding XI An Act made the 13th and 14th years of the late King Charles 2. Entituled An Act for the better relief of the Poor of this Kingdom as to all Parts other then what relates to the Corporations thereby Constituted shall be in force for Seven years from the said 13th of February 1692. and from thence to the end of the next Session of Parliament XII An Act made in the 30th year of the late K. Charles 2. Entituled An Act to enable Creditors to recover their Debts of the Executors and Administrators of Executors in their own wrong shall be perpetual XIII And further Executors and Administrators of Executors or Administrators of Right who shall waste or convert to their own Use the Goods or Estate of his Testator or Intestate shall be chargeable as their Testator or Intestaâ—e should or might have been XIV If any Woman hath been or shall be Convicted of any Felony for which a Man might have the Benefit of Clergy and hath once had or shall have the Benefit of an Act made at the last Session of this present Parilament Eâ—â—â—ed Aâ— Act to take away Clergy from some Offenders and to being others to punishment and shall be again Convicted of any other Felony such Woman thall be totally excluded from having any other benefit of the said Act. XV. The said last mentioned Act to continue for Three years from the said 13th of February 1692. and from thence to the end of the next Session of Parliament XVI An Act made in the 13th and 14th years of the Reign of the late King Charles 2. Entituled An Act for preventing abuses in Printing Seditions Treasonable and Unlicensed