suffer a Discontinuance or if a Verdict pass against him the Defendant shall recover his double Costs II. Stat. 2 W. M. Sess 2. cap. 13. All personal Actions Suits Indictments Informations and other Prosecutions for apprehending and imprisoning suspected Persons and seizing and using Horses and Arms and causing the greatest part of the Militia of this Kingdom to be raised and maintained otherwise than is authorized by the Acts made in the Reign of the late King Charles II. and to march and be quartered in divers places for their Majesties Service and the Safety of the Kingdom in pursuance of Orders from the Privy Council in this present year 1690. about the time that the Coasts of this Kingdom were invaded by the French be and are hereby discharged and made void and if any Suit hath been or shall be prosecuted the Defendant may plead the General Issue and give this Act and the Special Matter in Evidence and if the Plaintiff become non-suit or forbear Prosecution or suffer a Discontinuance or a Verdict pass against him the Defendant shall recover his double Costs III. Stat. 4 5 W. M. cap. 19. Whereas in this present year 1692. there were great Preparations for an Invasion intended from France the Lords of the Council and others by their Authority having imprisoned several suspected Persons and seized Horses and Arms and caused some part of the Militia to be raised continued and maintained otherwise than is authorized by the Acts made in the Reign of King Charles II. and to march and be quartered in divers places that the Parties concerned in those Proceedings in that extraodinary juncture may be indemnified Be it enacted That all Prosecutions whatsoever by reason of the Premisses be discharged and made void And if any Action or Suit hath been or shall be commenced or prosecuted for the same the Person so sued may plead the General Issue and give this Act and the Special Matter in Evidence and if the Plaintiff shall be non-suit or forbear Prosecution or suffer a Discontinuance or that a Verdict pass against him the Defendant shall recover his double Costs Taxes I. STat. 1. W. M. Sess 1. cap. 3. An Act for granting a present Aid to their Majesties Exp. II. Stat. 1 W. M. Sess 1. cap. 13. An Act for raising Mony by a Poll and otherwise towards the reducing of Ireland III. Stat. 1 W. M. Sess 1. cap. 20. An Act for a Grant to their Majesties of an Aid of 12 d. in the pound for one year for the necessary defence of their Realms IV. Stat. 1 W. M. Sess 1. cap. 31. An additional Act for the appointing Commissioners for the executing an Act of this present Parliament Entituled An Act for a Grant to their Majesties of an Aid of twelve pence in the pound for one year for the necessary defence of their Realms V. Stat. 1 W. M. Sess 2. cap. 1. An Act for granting to their Majesties an Aid of one shilling in the pound for one year VI. Stat. 1 W. M. Sess 2. cap. 5. An Act for a Grant to their Majesties of an additional Aid of twelve pence in the pound for one year VII Stat. 1 W. M. Sess 2. cap. 7. An Act for review of the late Poll granted to their Majesties and for an additional Poll towards the reducing of Ireland VIII Stat. 2 W. M. Sess 1. cap. 2. An Act for raising Mony by a Poll and otherwise towards the reducing of Ireland and prosecuting the War against France IX Stat. 2 W. M. Sess 2. cap. 1. Aâ— Act for granting an Aid to their Majesties of the Sum of 1651702 l. 18 s. Exp. X. Stat. 3 4 W. M. cap. 5. An Act for granting an Aid to their Majesties of the Sum of sixteen hundred fifty one thousand seven hundred and two pounds eighteen shillings towards the carrying on a vigorous War against France XI Stat. 3 4 W. M. cap. 6. An Act for raising Mony by a Poll payable quarterly for one year for the carrying on a vigorous War against France XII Stat. 4 5 W. M. cap. 1. An Act for granting to their Majesties an Aid of four shillings in the pound for one year for carrying on a vigorous War against France XIII Stat. 4 5 W. M. cap. 14. All Persons who were not at all or not fully and duly assessed according to the intent of an Act made the last Session of this present Parliament Entituled An Act for raising Mony by a Poll c. shall be assessed and taxed as they ought to have been by the same XIV In order whereunto such as are or shall be qualified to act as Commissioners for putting in execution an Act of this Session of Parliament Entituled An Act for granting to their Majesties an Aid of 4 s. in the pound c. shall be Commissioners for executing this Act within their several Divisions and shall have and execute the like Powers Rules and Directions as the Commissioners had or ought to have executed by virtue of the said Poll-Act And all Persons concerned in the assessing collecting receiving or paying any Monies by virtue of this Act shall have the like Benesits and be subject to the like Penalties in case of neglect or resusal to pay the Sums assessed or to perform their Duties as in such case any Person by virtue of the said Poll-Act ought to have or be subject to XV. Deputy-Lieutenants and other Officers of the Militia having Estates of such value as ought to find or contribute to a Horse shall pay for such Estates although they be not actually charged to find or contriâ—ute to find a Horse c. And all who at the time of the Execution of the said Poll-Act were or had been Justices of Peace Sheriffs or Deputy-Lieutenants or who were appointed Commissioners by virtue of the said Act being worth 300 l. and were not assessed 20 s. quarterly shall pay after that rate or so much as with what they have paid will make up 20 s. quarterly In like manner Clergy-men having in Estate Ecclesiastical or Temporal or both 60 l. per annum shall pay after the same rate and in all other things the said Act shall be fully executed XVI The respective Commissioners shall meet on the 4th of April 1693. and the said Sums shall be assessed and paid to the Receivers of the Counties on or before the 24th day of June 1693. and answered into their Majesties Exchequer on or before the 12th day of July 1693. XVII If upon the return of the Duplicates it shall appear that the said Sums of Mony do not amount to 300000 l. their Majesties may borrow by way of Loan any Sum or Sums which together with the amount of what shall be levied by virtue of this Act shall not exceed in the whole 300000 l. which Sum or Sums shall be charged upon the credit of their Majesties Exchequer in General and
XVII This Act shall give no ease to Papists or Popish Recusants nor to any that in preaching or writing shall deny the Trinity XVIII If any persons after the 10th day of June come into any Church Chappel or Congregation permitted by this Act and disturb the same or misuse the Teacher upon proof thereof by two Witnesses before a Justice of Peace they shall find two Sureties to be bound by Recognizance in 50 l. and in default thereof be committed to prison till the next Quarter-Sessions and upon conviction of such Offence at the General or Quarter-Sessions shall forfeit 20 l. XIX No Assembly for Religious Worship shall be allowed by this Act till the place of meeting be certified to the Bishop of the Diocess or the Arch-deacon or to the Justices of Peace at the General or Quarter-Sessions and registred or recorded there respectively and a Certificate thereof given without Fee c. Revenue I. Stat. 1 W. M. Sess 1. cap. 14. The Subsidy of Tunnage and Poundage and other Sums of Mony payable upon Merchandise and the several Impositions Duties and Charges upon Liquors Manufactures and other Things and all and singular the Revenue and Revenues except Hearth-mony other than the Duties thereby arising at or before the 25th of March 1689. granted and payable to the two late Kings or either of them which remained and had continuance on the 5th day of November last and all Arrears of the same shall be answered and paid to their Majesties until the 25th day of December 1689. II. All persons who have received or collected any part of the publick Revenue since the said 5th day of November are hereby indemnified against all persons of whom they received or collected the same to be answerable nevertheless to their Majesties III. Seizures and Distresses made or to be made by any persons authorized and all Forfeitures and Penalties for any Offence against any Law concerning the Customs or Excise or relating to the Transportation of Wool or importation or exportation of prohibited Goods incurred since the 11th day of December and before the 13th of February 1688. shall be prosecuted as well by any Informer for the King and Queen and himself as by the Attorny General in manner and form as if such Seisures Distresses and Offences had been made and committed after the said 13th day of Febr. IV. Stat. 1 W. M. Sess 1. cap. 28. Part of the Mony accruing to their Majesties by one Act of Parliament made in the first year of the Reign of the late King James II. Entituled An Act for granting to his Majesty an Imposition upon all Tobacco and Sugar imported between the 24th day of June 1685. and the 24th day of June 1693. not exceeding in the whole 60000 l. shall be applyed to the payment of the Wages due to the Servants of the late King Charles II. which were his Servants at the time of his decease to be paid them within three years from the 24th day of Dec. 1689. by three equal payments and in such manner and proportion and to such of them as his Majesty shall direct and the residue of the Mony arising by the said Act and the Mony arising by two other Acts of the said first year of the said late King James the one entituled An Act for granting his Majesty an imposition upon all Wines and Vinegar imported between the 24th day of June 1685. and the 24th of June 1693. and the other An Act for granting an aid to his Majesty by an imposition on all French Linnens and all East-India Linnen and several other Manufactures of India and on all French wrought Silks and Stuffs and on all other wrought Silks and on all Brandies imported after the first day of July 1685. and before the first day of July 1690. and by one other Act of this Parliament Entituled An Act for an additional Duty of Excise upon Beer Ale and other Liquors shall be applied from the 29th of September 1689. during the continuance of the said Acts in the first place towards the payment of 600000 l. to the States of the United Provinces for their assistance to his Majesty in coming into this Nation in such manner as his Majesty shall direct and the residue towards the subduing the Rebellion of Ireland and other Charges of the War against France V. Accounts of the said Monies to be kept apart from other Monies payable to their Majesties that such as the States of the United Provinces shall appoint and other persons concerned may see how the said additional Duty and other Impositions are from time to time paid into the Exchequer VI. No Mony shall be paid to any of the late King Charles II's Servants but to such as before the first day of February next shall have taken the Oaths and made and subscribed the Declaration mentioned in an Act of this present Parliament Entituled An Act for abrogating the Oaths of Supremacy and Allegiance and appointing other Oaths at the General Quarter-Sessions of the County or Place where they reside and shall produce a Certificate thereof attested by the Clerk of the Peace VII Stat. 1 W. M. Sess 2. cap. 3. An Act for preventing all Doubts and Questions concerning the collecting the publick Revenue Exp. Rights and Liberties I. Stat. 1 W. M. Sess 2. cap. 2. Whereas the Lords Spiritual and Temporal and Commons assembled at Westminster lawfully fully and freely representing all the Estates of the People of this Realm did upon the thirteenth day of February in the year of our Lord one thousand six hundred eighty eight present unto their Majesties then called and known by the Names and Stile of William and Mary Prince and Princess of Orange being present in their proper Persons a certain Declaration in Writing made by the said Lords and Commons in the Words following viz. Whereas the late King James II. by the assistance of divers evil Councellors Judges and Ministers employed by him did endeavour to subvert and extirpate the Protestant Religion and the Laws and Liberties of this Kingdom By assuming and exercising a Power of dispensing with and sus-spending of Laws and the Execution of Laws without consent of Parliament By committing and prosecuting divers worthy Prelates for humbly petitioning to be excused from concurring to the said assumed Power By issuing and causing to be executed a Commission under the Great Seal for erecting a Court called The Court of Commissioners for Ecclesiastical Causes By levying Mony for and to the use of the Crown by pretence of Prerogative for other time and in other manner than the same was granted by Parliament By raising and keeping a standing Army within this Kingdom in time of Peace without consent of Parliament and quartering Souldiers contrary to Law By causing several good Subjects being Protestants to be disarmed at the same time when Papists were both armed and employed contrary to Law By violating the freedom of Election of Members to serve in Parliament By
prosecutions in the Court of Kings Bench for Matters and Causes cognizable only in Parliament and by divers other arbitrary and illegal Courses And whereas of late years partial corrupt and unqualified Persons have been returned and served on Juries in Trials and particularly divers Jurors in Trials for High-Treason which were not Freeholders And excessive Bail hath been required of Persons committed in criminal Cases to elude the benefit of the Laws made for the Liberty of the Subjects And excessive Fines have been imposed And illegal and cruel Punishments inflicted And several Grants and Promises made of Fines and Forfeitures before any Conviction or Judgment against the Persons upon whom the same were to be levied All which are utterly and directly contrary to the known Laws and Statutes and Freedom of this Realm And whereas the said late King James II. having abdicated the Government and the Throne being thereby vacant His Highness the Prince of Orange whom it hath pleased Almighty God to make the Glorious Instrument of delivering this Kingdom from Popery and Arbitrary Power did by the Advice of the Lord Spiritual and Temporal and divers Principal Persons of the Commons cause Letters to be written to the Lords Spiritual and Temporal being Protestants and other Letters to the several Counties Cities Universities Boroughs and Cinque-Ports for the choosing of such Persons to represent them as were of Right to be sent to Parliament to meet and sit at Westminster upon the two and twentieth day of January in this year one thousand six hundred eighty and eight in order to such an establishment as that their Religion Laws and Liberties might not again be in danger of being subverted upon which Letters Elections having been accordingly made And thereupon the said Lords Spiritual and Temporal and Commons pursuant to their respective Letters and Elections being now assembled in a full and free representative of this Nation taking into their most serious consideration the best means for attaining the ends aforesaid do in the first place as their Ancestors in like case have usually done for the vindicating and asserting their ancient Rights and Liberties declare That the pretended Power of suspending of Laws or the Execution of Laws by Regal Authority without consent of Parliament is illegal That the pretended Power of dispensing with Laws or the Execution of Laws by Regal Authority as it hath been assumed and exercised of late is illegal That the Commission for erecting the late Court of Commissioners for Ecclesiastical Causes and all other Commissions and Courts of like nature are illegal and pernicious That levying Mony for or to the use of the Crown by pretence of Prerogative without grant of Parliament for longer time or in other manner than the same is or shall be granted is illegal That it is the Right of the Subjects to petition to the King and all Commitments and Prosecutions for such petitioning are illegal That the raising or keeping a standing Army within the Kingdom in time of Peace unless it be with consent of Parliament is against Law That the Subjects which are Protestants may have Arms for their Defence suitable to their conditions and as allowed by Law That Election of Members of Parliament ought to be free That the freedom of Speech and Debates or Proceedings in Parliament ought not to be impeached or questioned in any Court or Place out of Parliament That excessive Bail ought not to be required nor excessive Fines imposed nor cruel and unusal Punishments inflicted That Jurors ought to be duly impannelled and returned and Jurors which pass upon Men in Trials for High-Treason ought to be Freeholders That all Grants and Promises of Fines and Forfeitures of particular Persons before Conviction are illegal and void And that for redress of all Grievances and for the amending strengthening and preserving of the Laws Parliaments ought to be held frequently And they do claim demand and insist upon all and singular the Premisses as their undoubted Rights and Liberties And that no Declarations Judgments Doings or Proceedings to the prejudice of the People in any of the said Premisses ought in any wise to be drawn hereafter into Consequence or Example To which demand of their Rights they are particularly encouraged by the Declaration of his Highness the Prince of Orange as being the only means for obtaining a full redress and remedy therein Having therefore an intire Confidence That his said Highness the Prince of Orange will perfect the Deliverance so far advanced by him and will still preserve them from the Violation of their Rights which they have here asserted and from all other Attempts upon their Religion Rights and Liberties The said Lords Spiritual and Temporal and Commons assembled at Westminster do resolve That William and Mary Prince and Princess of Orange be and be declared King and Queen of England France and Ireland and the Dominions thereunto belonging to hold the Crown and Royal Dignity of the said Kingdoms and Dominions to them the said Prince and Princess during their Lives and the Life of the Survivor of them And that the sole and full Exercise of the Regal Power be only in and executed by the said Prince of Orange in the Names of the said Prince and Princess during their joynt Lives and after their deceases the said Crown and Royal Dignity of the said Kingdoms and Dominions to be to the Heirs of the Body of the said Princess And for default of such Issue to the Princess Anne of Denmark and the Heirs of her Body and for default of such Issue to the Heirs of the Body of the said Prince of Orange And the Lords Spiritual and Temporal and Commons do pray the said Prince and Princess to accept the same accordingly And that the Oaths hereafter-mentioned be taken by all Persons of whom the Oaths of Allegiance and Supremacy might be required by Law instead of them and that the said Oaths of Allegiance and Supremacy be abrogated I A. B. do sincerely promise and swear That I will be Faithful and bear true Allegiance to their Majesties King WILLIAM and Queen MARY So help me God I A. B. do swear That I do from my Heart Abhor Detest and Abjure as Impious and Heretical this damnable Doctrin and Position That Princes excommunicated or deprived by the Pope or any Authority of the See of Rome may be deposed or murdered by their Subjects or any other whatsoever And I do declare That no Foreign Prince Person Prelate State or Potentate hath or ought to have any Iurisdiction Power Superiority Pre-eminence or Authority Ecclesiastical or Spiritual within this Realm So help me God Upon which their said Majesties did accept the Crown and Royal Dignity of the Kingdoms of England France and Ireland and the Dominions thereunto belonging according to the resolution and desire of the said Lords and Commons contained in the said Declaration And thereupon their Majesties were pleased That the said Lords Spiritual and Temporal and Commons being
AN EXACT Abridgment Of all the STATUTES OF King WILLIAM AND Queen MARY Now in Force and Vse By J. Washington Esq LONDON Printed by the Assigns of the Kings Printers And by the Assigns of R. Atkins and E. Atkins Esquires And are to be sold by M. Gilliflower S. Keble D. Brown W. Rogers T. Goodwin A. Churchill and J. Walthoe 1694. THE TITLES Of all the STATUTES Contained in this ABRIDGMENT Now in Force and Vse 1. AN Act for removing and preventing all Questions and Disputes concerning the assembling and sitting of this present Parliament 2. An Act for reviving of Actions and Process lately depending in the Courts at Westminster and discontinued by the not holding of Hillary-Term and for supplying other Defects relating to Proceedings at Law 3. An Act for establishing the Coronation Oath 4. An Act for the abrogating of the Oaths of Supremacy and Allegiance and appointing other Oaths 5. An Act for the removing Papists and reputed Papists from the Cities of London and Westminster and ten Miles distance from the same 6. An Act for the taking away the Revenue arising by Hearth-Mony 7. An Act for the explaining and making effectual a Statute made in the first Year of King James II. concerning the Haven and Piers of Great Yarmouth 8. An Act for the encouraging the Exportation of Corn. 9. An Act for preventing Doubts and Questions concerning the collecting the Publick Revenue 10. An Act for the better securing the Government by disarming Papists and reputed Papists 11. An Act That the Simoniacal Promotion of one Person may not projudice another 12. An Act for rectifying a Mistake in a certain Act of this present Parliament For the amoving Papists from the Cities of London and Westminster 13. An Act for exempting their Majesties Protestant Subjects dissenting from the Church of England from the Penalties of certain Laws 14. An Act for enabling Lords Commissioners for the Great Seal to execute the Office of Lord Chancellor or Lord Keeper 15. An Act for the Exportation of Beer Ale Syder and Mum. 16. An Act for reviving two former Acts for exporting of Leather 17. An Act to regulate the Administration of the Oaths required to be taken by Commission or Warrant Officers employed in their Majesties Service by Land by virtue of an Act made this present Session of Parliament Entituled An Act for the abrogating of the Oaths of Supremacy and Allegiance and appointing other Oaths 18. An Act to vest in the two Universities the Presentations of Benefices belonging to Papists 19. An Act for taking away the Court holden before the President and Council of the Marches of Wales 20. An Act for appropriating certain Duties for paying the States General of the United Provinces their Charges for his Majesties Expedition into this Kingdom and for other Uses 21. An Act for Relief of the Protestant Irish Clergy 22. An Act to repeal the Statute made in the fifth Year of King Henry IV. against the multiplying of Gold and Silver 23. An Act for the better preventing the Exportation of Wooll and encouraging the Woollen Manufactures of this Kingdom 24. An Act for explaining part of an Act made in the first Year of King James I. concerning Tanned Leather 25. An Act for prohibiting all Trade and Commerce with France 26. An Act declaring the Rights and Liberties of the Subject and settling the Succession of the Crown 27. An Act for preventing all Doubts and Questions concerning the collecting the Publick Revenue 28. An Act for the charging and collecting the Duties upon Coffee Tea and Chocolate at the Custom-house 29. An Act for preventing venatious Suits against such as acted in order to the Bringing in their Majesties or for their Service 30. An Act for the better Security and Relief of their Majesties Protestant Subjects of Ireland 31. An Act for Recognizing King William and Queen Mary and for avoiding all Questions touching the Acts made in the Parliament assembled at Westminster the thirteenth day of February 1688. 32. An Act for granting to their Majesties for their Lives and the Life of the Survivor of Them certain Impositions upon Beer Ale and other Liquors 33. An Act for granting to their Majesties a Subsidy of Tunnage and Poundage and other Sums of Mony payable upon Merchandizes exported and imported 34. An Act for enabling the Sale of Goods distrained for Rent in case the Rent be not paid in a reasonable time 35. An Act for the Exercise of the Government by Her Majesty during his Majesty's Absence 36. An Act to declare the Right and Freedom of Election of Members to serve in Parliament for the Cinque Ports 37. An Act for reversing the Judgment in a Quo Warranto against the City of London and for restoring the City of London to its ancient Rights and Priviledges 38. An Act for the discouraging the Importation of Thrown-Silk 39. An Act for the King and Queens most Gracious General and Free Pardon 40. An Act concerning the Commissioners of the Admiralty 41. An Act for granting to their Majesties certain Impositions upon all East-India Goods and Manufactures and upon all Wrought Silks and several other Goods and Merchandize to be imported after the 25th day of December 1690. 42. An Act for the continuance of several former Acts therein mentioned for the laying several Duties upon Wines Vinegar and Tobacco 43. An Act for reviving a former Act for regulating the Measures and Prices of Coals 44. An Act for paving and cleansing the Streets in the Cities of London and Westminster and Suburbs and Liberties thereof and Out-Parishes in the County of Middlesex and in the Borough of Southwark and other Places within the Weekly Bills of Mortality in the County of Surry and for regulating the Markets therein mentioned 45. An Act for the encouraging the Distilling of Brandy and Spirits from Corn and for laying several Duties on Low-Wines or Spirits of the first Extraction 46. An Act for granting to their Majesties several additional Duties of excise upon Beer Ale and other Liquors for four Years from the time that an Act for doubling the Duty of Excise upon Beer Ale and other Liquors during the space of one Year doth expire 47. An Act for preventing vexatious Suits against such as acted for their Majesties Service in Defence of the Kingdom 48. An Act for the more effectual putting in Execution an Act Entituled An Act for prohibiting all Trade and Commerce with France 49. An Act for Relief of poor Prisoners for Debt or Damages 50. An Act for abrogating the Oath of Supremacy in Ireland and appointing other Oaths 51. An Act for the better ascertaining the Tithes of Hemp and Flax. 52. An Act for the Encouragement of the Breeding and Feeding of Cattle 53. An Act to take away Clergy from some Offenders and to bring others to punishment 54. An Act for the more effectual discovery and Punishment of Deer-stealers 55. An Act for the better explanation and supplying the Defects of the former Laws for 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
Tax made by virtue of this Act or by the determination of the Justices c. may have recourse to the General Quarter-Sessions whose determination therein shall be final XXVIII And whereas there are many common High-ways in the said Parishes which cannot be sufficiently supported without the help of this Act Be it enacted That one or more Assessment or Assessments upon the Inhabitants and Occupiers of Lands c. and Persons usually ratable to the Poor shall from time to time be made and allowed by such Persons as the Justices at their Quarter-Sessions shall direct and the Mony thereby raised to be employed and accounted for according to their direction towards the supporting such High-ways such Assessments to be levied by distress and sale of goods in case of non-payment within fourteen days after demand rendring the overplus Charges deducted XXIX No such Assessments to be made in any one Year shall exceed 4 d. in the Pound of the yearly value of Lands c. nor 8 d. for every twenty pound in personal Estate XXX New Sewers made since the 12th Year of King Charles II. in any the said Parishes shall be subject to the Commissioners of Sewers and the said Commissioners may direct the making of new Sewers and alter or take away any Nusances therein and any cross Gutters and Channels in any of the Streets and Lanes in the said Parishes XXXI Housholders within the Weekly Bills of Mortality whose Houses adjoyn to the Street from Michaelmas to Lady-day yearly shall hang out Candles or Lights from the time that it grows dark till twelve a Clock at night on pain to forfeit 2 s. for every default except such as shall agree to make use of Lamps to be placed at such distances as shall be approved of by two or more Justices of the Peace XXXII Every Truss of old Hay bought or offered to sale within the Weekly Bills of Mortality between the last of August and the first of June shall weigh 56 pounds at least and between the first of June and the last of August being new Hay of that Summers growth shall weigh 60 pounds and being old Hay of any former years growth shall weigh 56 pounds the Person offering any Hay to be sold of less weight to forfeit for every Truss 18 d. XXXIII No Persons shall suffer their Waggons Carts c. to stand in any place within the Weekly Bills of Mortality loaden with Hay or Straw to be sold from Michaelmas to Lady-day after two a Clock in the Afternoon nor from Lady-day to Michaelmas after three a Clock on pain to forfeit 5 s. for every such Offence XXXIV Justices of Peace in the Places aforesaid within their respective Limits may upon their own View Confession of the Party or proof of one credible Witness upon Oath convict Persons of the said Offences one moiety of the Forfeitures to the Poor and the other to the Prosecutor and in case of a Conviction by the View of a Justice of Peace one half to the relief of the Poor and the other half if for a default of payment towards the repairing and cleansing the Streets to be paid to the Scavengers to be imployed to that use or otherwise to the relief of the Poor as aforesaid all the said Penalties to be levied by distress and sale of Goods by a Justices Warrant to the Constable c. and for want of a distress or in case of non-payment within six days after demand or notice in Writing left at the Offenders House by the Constable c. the Offender not being a Peer shall be committed to the Common Gaol till payment XXXV The Wheels of Carts Carriages or Drays within the said Places where the Streets are paved shall contain six Inches in the Felley and shall not be wrought about with any Iron-work nor drawn with above two Horses after they are up the Hills by the Water-side Owners of Carts c. the Wheels whereof shall not be of that breadth or shod with Iron or drawn with above two Horses as aforesaid shall forfeit 40 s. for every time such Cart c. shall be used for the Uses and to be levied as aforesaid XXXVI This shall not extend to Country Carriages bringing Goods to the said Places or carrying any Goods half a Mile beyond the paved Streets XXXVII No Persons shall keep Swine within the Houses or Back-sides of the paved Streets where the Houses are contiguous upon pain of forfeiting the same to the use of the Poor of the Parish And Church-wardens Overseers of the Poor Constables Beadles Headboroughs and Tythingmen may in the day-time by Warrant from the Lord Mayor of London or any Justice of Peace of the place search for Swine and drive them away to sell the Mony to be delivered to the Church-wardens or Overseers of the Poor of the Parish for the use of the Poor XXXVIII The cleansing the Streets Lanes and Passages within London and the Liberties thereof shall be managed according to the ancient usage of the City XXXIX The Lord Mayor or any Alderman may upon his own knowledge or view in the General Quarter-Sessions make presentment of any such Offence within the City and Liberties thereof and the Lord Mayor and Justices of the City shall at the same Sessions assess Fines for the same not exceeding 20 s. for every Offence to be paid to the Chamberlain of London for the use of the City XL. In Actions c. commenced for what any Person shall do in pursuance of an Act made in the 22 and 23 Years of King Charles II Entituled An Act for the better paving and cleansing the Streets and Sewers in and about the City of London or this Act the Defendant may plead the General Issue and give the said Act and the Special Matter in Evidence and if the Plaintiff or Prosecutor become Non-suit or suffer a Discontinuance or a Verdict pass against him the Defendant shall recover treble Costs XLI The High-way leading from the East-side of Clerkenwell-Green to St. Johns Street shall be pav'd according to the direction of this Act. Militia I. Stat. 2 W. M. Sess 2. c. 12. An Act for the raising the Militia of this Kingdom for the Year 1691. though the Months Pay formerly advanced be not paid II. Stat. 3 4 W. M. cap. 7. An Act for raising the Militia of this Kingdom for the Year 1692. although the Months Pay formerly advanced be not repaid III. Stat. 3 4 W. M. cap. 6. If at any time before the 25th day of March 1694. their Majesties shall think it necessary for the safety of this Kingdom to draw out the Militia into actual Service and the same be signified to the Lieutenants Deputy-Lieutenants and Warden of the Cinque-Ports It shall be lawful for them notwithstanding that one or more Months Pay before that time advanced be not reimbursed to draw out the Souldiers of the Militia into actual Service and to cause the Persons charged to
provide each their Souldier with pay in Hand not exceeding one Months Pay as if all the Pay before advanced and provided had been re-imbursed Oaths I. Stat. 1 W. M. Sess 1. cap. 6. The Oath herein after mentioned shall be administred to King William and Queen Mary at the time of their Coronation viz. The Archbishop or Bishop shall say Will you solemnly promise and swear to Govern the People of this Kingdom of England and the Dominions thereunto belonging according to the Statutes in Parliament agreed on and the Laws and Customs of the same The King and Queen shall say I solemnly promise so to do Archbishop or Bishop Will you to your Power cause Law and Justice in mercy to be executed in all your Judgments King and Queen I will Archbishop or Bishop Will you to the utmost of your Power maintain the Laws of God the true Profession of the Gospel and the Protestant reformed Religion established by Law And will you preserve unto the Bishops and Clergy of this Realm and to the Churches committed to their charge all such Rights and Priviledges as by Law do or shall appertain unto them or any of them King and Queen All this I promise to do After this the King and Queen laying his and her Hand upon the Holy Gospels shall say King and Queen The Things which I have here before promised I will perform and keep So help me God Then the King and Queen shall kiss the Book II. The said Oath shall be in like manner administred to every King or Queen who shall succeed III. Stat. Anno 1 W. M. Sess 1. cap. 8. Henceforth no Persons shall be obliged to take the Oaths of Allegiance and Supremacy or either of them by force of the Acts of 1 Eliz. or 3 Jac. or any other Statute and the said Oaths are hereby abrogated II. The Oaths appointed by this present Act to be taken and the Declaration appointed by this Act to be made c. shall be taken made repeated and subscribed by such as were required by any Act to take the said abrogated Oaths or either of them before such Persons as hereafter is expressed viz. Archbishops and Bishops and all above the Degree of a Baron of Parliament in the Court of Chancery or Kings Bench between the hours of 9 and 12 in the Forenoon before the end of Trin. Term next or at the General Quarter-Sessions for that County or Place where they shall be or reside between the said hours before the first day of August next IV. Other such Persons shall take the said Oaths and make and subscribe the said Declaration before such Persons as by any Act were authorized to tender the said abrogated Oaths V. All Persons other than such concerning whom other provision shall be made in this Act or Session of Parliament that shall be admitted into any Office or Imployment Ecclesiastical or Civil or come into any capacity by reason whereof they should have been obliged to take the said abrogated Oaths or either of them shall take the Oaths hereby appointed in such manner as they ought to have taken the former Oaths and under the same Penalties Forfeitures Disabilities and incapacities VI. If any Person now having any such Office or Imployment neglect or refuse to take the said Oaths before the first day of August next or sooner if required by order of Council such Office and Imployment shall be void VII Archbishops or Bishops and other Persons now having any Ecclesiastical Dignity Benefice c. neglecting or refusing to take the said Oaths before the first day of August next shall be suspended for six months from the said first of August and if they shall not within the said space of six months take the said Oaths they shall be ipso facto deprived and are hereby adjudged to be deprived VIII Governors Heads or Fellows of Colledges or Halls in either University or of any other Colledge Masters of Hospitals or Schools Professors of Divinity Law Physick or other Science in either University or in London neglecting or refusing as aforesaid before the first day of August next shall be suspended six months to be accounted as aforesaid and if they shall not within the said space of six months take the said Oaths their Offices Imployments Masterships Governments Fellowships and Professorships shall be void IX Other Persons refusing to take the said Oaths being lawfully tendred shall be committed by the Persons tendring the same to the Common Gaol or House of Correction for three months without Bail or Mainprize unless such Offenders shall pay down 40 s. or such lesser Sum as the Persons tendring the said Oaths shall require which Mony shall go to the relief of the Poor of the Parish or Place where such Offender did last reside and if at the end of three months such Persons shall again refuse c. they shall be committed as aforesaid for six months unless they shall pay down such Sum of Mony as the Persons tendring the said Oaths shall require not exceeding 10 l. nor under 5 l. the said Mony to be disposed as aforesaid and unless such Offenders shall become bound with two Sureties to be of the Good Behaviour and appear at the next Assizes or General Gaol-delivery for the place where they shall reside at which Assizes or Gaol-delivery the said Oath shall be again tendred in open Court and upon refusal the Persons refusing shall be adjudged incapable of any Office Civil or Military and be bound to their Good Behaviour till they take the said Oaths and if such Persons shall refuse to make and subscribe the Declaration mentioned in the Statute of the 30th Year of King Charles II. Entituled An Act for the more effectual preserving the Kings Person and Government c. they shall be taken and deemed Popish Recusants convict to all intents and purposes X. Commission-Officers and Non-Commission or Warrant-Officers now employed by Sea or Land shall take the said Oaths and make and subscribe the last mentioned Declaration before the Lord Admiral or Commissioners of the Admiralty or their Deputies or such as their Majesties shall appoint to administer them And all Persons hereafter to be put into any such Imployment shall before the delivery of their Commission or Warrant take the said Oaths and make and subscribe the said Declaration before the Lord Admiral or Commissioners of the Admiralty or their Deputies or such as shall issue such Commission or Warrant or such as shall be authorized to administer the same as aforesaid and in case of refusal shall be incapable of taking or executing such Office or Imployment XI The Oath appointed by the Statute of 13 Car. 2. Entituled An Act for the ordering the Forces in the several Counties of this Kingdom And so much of a Declaration prescribed in another Act made in the same Year Entituled An Act for the Uniformity of Publick Prayers c. as is expressed in these Words viz. I A. B.
mentioned and the making and subscribing the Declaration in the said Act of the 30th year of King Charles II. mentioned by the Members of each House from and after the first day of March next shall be effectual as if the said Oaths of Allegiance and Supremacy had been taken c. And in all future Parliaments the Oaths herein after mentioned and the said Declaration shall be taken made and subscribed by every Member of either House as the said Oaths of Allegiance and Supremacy and the said Declaration by the said Act of the 30th year of King Charles II. are appointed to be taken to enable them to sit and vote in Parliament IV. The Oaths above appointed by this Act to be taken instead of the Oaths of Allegiance and Supremacy are these viz. I A. B. do sincerely promise and swear That I will be faithful and bear true Allegiance to their Majesties King William and Queen Mary So help me God I A. B. do swear That I do from my Heart abhor detest and abjure as Impious and Heretical that damnable Doctrin and Position That Princes excommunicated or deprived by the Pope or any Authority of the See of Rome may be deposed or murthered by their Subjects or any other whatsoever And I do declare That no Foreign Prince Person Prelate State or Potentate hath or ought to have any Power Jurisdiction Superiority Preheminence or Authority Ecclesiastical or Spiritual within this Realm So help me God V. This present Parliament may be dissolved after the usual manner as if summoned by Writ VI. Stat. 2 W. M. Sess 1. cap. 7. Whereas the late Lord-Wardens of the Cinque-Ports have claim'd a Power of nominating and recommending to each of the said Cinque-Ports the two ancient Towns and their Members one person whom they ought to elect as a Member of Parliament be it declared and enacted That all such Nominations and Recommendations were and are contrary to the Laws and Constitutions of this Realm and for the future shall be so deemed and they are hereby declared to be void Poor I. Stat. 3 4 W. M. cap. 11. The Act made in the 13th and 14th years of the late King Charles II. Entituled An Act for the better Relief of the Poor of this Kingdom except what relates to the Corporations therein mentioned which was revived and continued with Alterations by an Act made in the first year of the late King James II. shall be in force from the first day of March 1691. II. The forty days continuance of a person intended by the said Acts to make a Settlement shall be accounted from the publication of a notice in writing which he or she shall deliver of the House of his or her Abode and number of his or her Family to the Church-warden or Overseer of the Poor which shall be read immediately after Divine Service in the Church or Chappel of the Place on the next Lords Day where there shall be Divine Service in the same the Church-warden or Overseer to Register such notice in the Book kept for the Poors Accounts III. No Souldier or other Person in their Majesties Service by delivery and publication of notice as aforesaid unless they be dismist the Service IV. Church-wardens or Overseers refusing to read or cause to be read such notice as aforesaid upon proof thereof by two Witnesses upon Oath before a Justice of Peace shall forfeit 40 s. to the use of the party grieved to be levied by distress and sale of Goods by Warrant of a Justice of Peace to the Constable and for want of a Distress shall be committed to Gaol for a month and if any Church-warden or Overseer shall neglect or refuse to Register such notice as aforesaid they shall forfeit 40 s. to be levied as aforesaid and for want of a Distress shall be committed as aforesaid V. If any person coming to inhabit in any Town or Parish shall on his own account execute any Publick annual Office or charge in the same during a year or pay his share towards the publick Taxes or Levies of such Town c. he shall be adjudged to have a legal Settlement without notice in Writing delivered c. VI. If any unmarried person not having Child or Children shall be lawfully hired for a Year such Service shall be deemed a good Settlement without notice c. VII Being bound Apprentice and inhabiting in a Town or Parish shall be adjudged a good Settlement VIII Persons agrieved by the determination of any Justices of the Peace may appeal to the next Quarter-Sessions who shall finally determine the same IX If any person be removed by virtue of this Act from one place to another by Warrant of two Justices of Peace the Church-wardens or Overseers of the place to which he shall be removed shall receive him and in case of refusal upon proof by two Witnesses upon oath before a Justice of Peace of the County Riding c. to which he shall be removed shall forfeit 5 l. to the use of the Poor of the Parish from which he shall be removed to be levied by distress and sale of Goods c. by Warrant of a Justice of Peace of the County c. to which he shall be removed to the Constable of the place where such Offender dwells and for want of a Distress shall be committed to Gaol for forty days X. Persons agrieved by the Judgment of the said two Justices may appeal to the next General Quarter-Sessions of the place from which the said person was removed XI There shall be kept in every Parish at the Parish Charge a Book or Books wherein the Names of persons receiving Collections shall be registred with the time when they were first admitted to have relief and the occasion of their necessity and yearly in Easter-Week or oftner the Parishioners shall meet and have such Books produced before them and the persons receiving Collections shall be called and the reasons of their taking relief examined and a new List be made and entred of such as they shall think fit to allow to receive collection and no other shall be allowed to receive Collection but by Authority under the Hand of a Justice of Peace residing in the Parish and if there be none in the Parts next adjoyning or by order of the Justices of Peace in their Quarter-Sessions except in cases of Pestilential Diseases Plague or Small-pox in respect of Familes infected only XII In all Actions to be brought in the Courts at Westminster or at the Assizes for Monies mis-spent by the Church-wardens or Overseers the Evidence of the Parishioners other than such as receive Alms of the Parish where the Defendants are Inhabitants shall be taken and admitted Prisoners I. Stat. 2 W. M. Sess 2. cap. 15. All persons in prison upon the 28th day of November 1690. for Debt or Damages or upon any Action or mean Process for Debt Account or Trespass upon the Case or who may have Judgments entred
the two Houses of Parliament should continue to sit and with their Majesties Royal Concurrence make effectual Provision for the Settlement of the Religion Laws and Liberties of this Kingdom so that the same for the future might not be in danger again of being subverted to which the said Lords Spiritual and Temporal and Commons did agree and proceed to act accordingly Now in pursuance of the Premisses the said Lords Spiritual and Temporal and Commons in Parliament assembled for the ratifying confirming and establishing the said Declaration and the Articles Claâ—ses Matters and Things therein contained by the force of a Law made in due form by Authority of Parliament do pray that it may be declared and enacted That all and singular the Rights and Liberties asserted and claimed in the said Declaration are the true ancient and indubitable Rights and Liberties of the People of this Kingdom and so shall be esteemed allowed adjudged deemed and taken to be and that all and every the particulars aforesaid shall be firmly and strictly holden and observed as they are expressed in the said Declaration and all Officers and Ministers whatsoever shall serve their Majesties and their Successors according to the same in all Times to come And the said Lords Spiritual and Temporal and Commons seriously considering how it hath pleased Almighty God in his marvellous Providence and merciful Goodness to this Nation to provide and preserve their said Majesties Royal Persons most happily to Reign over us upon the Throne of their Ancestors for which they render unto him from the bottom of their Hearts their humblest Thanks and Praises do truly firmly assuredly and in the sincerity of their Hearts think and do hereby recognize acknowledge and declare That King James II. having abdicated the Government and their Majesties having accepted the Crown and Royal Dignity as aforesaid their said Majesties did become were are and of Right ought to be by the Laws of this Realm our Soveraign Liege Lord and Lady King and Queen of England France and Ireland and the Dominions thereunto belonging in and to whose Princely Persons the Royal State Crown and Dignity of the said Realms with all Honours Stiles Titles Regalities Prerogatives Powers Jurisdictions and Authorities to the same belonging and appertaining are most fully rightfully and intirely invested and incorporated united and annexed And for preventing all Questions and Divisions in this Realm by reason of any pretended Titles to the Crown and for preserving a certainty in the Succession thereof in and upon which the Unity Peace Tranquility and Safety of this Nation doth under God wholly consist and depend The said Lords Spiritual and Temporal and Commons do beseech their Majesties that it may be enacted established and declared That the Crown and Regal Government of the said Kingdoms and Dominions with all and singular the Premisses thereunto belonging and appertaining shall be and continue to their said Majesties and the Survivor of them during their Lives and the Life of the Survivor of them and that the entire perfect and full exercise of the Regal Power and Government be only in and executed by his Majesty in the Names of both their Majesties during their joynt Lives and after their deceases the said Crown and Premisses shall be and remain to the Heirs of the Body of her Majesty and for default of such Issue to Her Royal Highness the Princess ANNE of Denmark and the Heirs of her Body and for default of such Issue to the Heirs of the Body of his said Majesty and thereunto the said Lords Spiritual and Temporal and Commons do in the Name of all the People aforesaid most humbly and faithfully submit themselves their Heirs and Posterities for ever and do faithfully promise That they will stand to maintain and defend their said Majesties and also the Limitation and Succession of the Crown herein specified and contained to the utmost of their Powers with their Lives and Estates against all Persons whatsoever that shall attempt any thing to the contrary And whereas it hath been found by Experience that it is inconsistent with the safety and welfare of this Protestant Kingdom to be governed by a Popish Prince or by any King or Queen marrying a Papist the said Lords Spiritual and Temporal and Commons do farther pray that it may be enacted That all and every Person and Persons that is are or shall be reconciled to or shall hold Communion with the See or Church of Rome or shall Profess the Popish Religion or shall Marry a Papist shall be excluded and be for ever uncapable to inherit possess or enjoy the Crown and Government of this Realm and Ireland and the Dominions thereunto belonging or any part of the same or to have use or exercise any Regal Power Authority or Jurisdiction within the same and in all and every such Case or Cases the People of these Realms shall be and are hereby absolved of their Allegiance and the said Crown and Government shall from time to time descend to and be enjoyed by such Person or Persons being Protestants as should have inherited and enjoyed the same in case the said Person or Persons so reconciled holding Communion or Professing or Marrying as aforesaid were naturally dead And that every King and Queen of this Realm who at any time hereafter shall come to and succeed in the Imperial Crown of this Kingdom shall on the first day of the meeting of the first Parliament next after His or Her coming to the Crown sitting in His or Her Throne in the House of Peers in the presence of the Lords and Commons therein assembled or at His or Her Coronation before such Person or Persons who shall administer the Coronation Oath to Him or Her at the time of His or Her taking the said Oath which shall first happen make subscribe and audibly repeat the Declaration mentioned in the Statute made in the thirteenth year of the Reign of King Charles II. Entituled An Act for the more effectual preserving the Kings Person and Government by disabling Papists from sitting in either House of Parliament But if it shall happen that if such King or Queen upon His or Her Succession to the Crown of this Realm shall be under the Age of twelve years then every such King or Queen shall make subscribe and audibly repeat the said Declaration at His or Her Coronation or the first day of the meeting of the first Parliament as aforesaid which shall first happen after such King or Queen shall have attained the said age of twelve years All which their Majesties are contented and pleased shall be declared enacted and established by Authority of this present Parliament and shall stand remain and be the Law of this Realm for ever and the same are by their said Majesties by and with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal and Commons in Parliament assembled and by the Authority of the same declared enacted and established accordingly And be it
fourth part thereof to be the Governor and another Person so qualified to be Deputy-Governor and sixteen others having subscribed each 500 l. or upwards and paid in a fourth part to be Committees the said Governor Deputy-Governor and Committees to continue in Office till the 20th of Octob. 1694. XXXI Every Governor and Deputy-Governor before they be admitted to the execution of their Offices shall take this Oath viz. You swear That you shall assist and with all your Power support and maintain the Company of Merchants of London trading to Greenland and the Priviledges of the same having no respect to your self in derogation hinderance or prejudice of the good Government Order and Common-weal thereof The By-Laws and Ordinances which shall be made by Authority of this Company and which are not repugnant to the Laws of this Kingdom you shall uprightly and duly execute according to the knowledge thereof And to every Person you shall minister upright Justice And you shall not engage or oblige the said Company in any wise as Governor or Deputy-Governor of the said Company without agreement and consent of the Court of Committees of the said Company So help you Almighty God XXXII And every one of the sixteen Committees shall take this Oath viz. You shall swear to be faithful and true during the time of your Place of Trust as one of the Committees of the Company of Merchants of London trading to Greenland and their Successors The good Estate of the Adventurers in this present Joynt-Stock you shall favour and affect and the Priviledges granted unto them to your Power endeavour to maintain and preserve You shall be careful to see and provide that an equal and indifferent Hand be carryed in the Government of the Company and in the Affairs thereof to all the Adventurers that shall adventure or put in Stock and that an equal division from time to time be made to all the Adventurers according to the proportion of their several Stocks duly paid in So help you God XXXIII No Persons who shall subscribe or have less in the Stock than 500 l. shall have any Voice at a General Court of the Company every Person subscribing or having 500 l. in the Stock shall have one Vote and such as subscribe or have 1000 l. shall have two Votes and no more though they subscribe more than 1000 l. XXXIV All Persons subscribing or paying in any Mony shall be admitted into the Freedom of the Company gratis and shall take this Oath before the Governor or Deputy-Governor or any five of the Committees viz. You shall swear That you will assist and with all your Power support and maintain the Company of Merchants of London trading to Greenland The By-Laws and Ordinances which shall be made by Authority of this Company which are not repugnant to the Laws of this Kingdom You shall according to your knowledge thereof uprightly and duly keep and obey So help you God XXXV The Governor or Deputy-Governor or any five of the Committees for the time being shall before the said 20th day of Octob. 1694. between the 1st and the 20th of the said Month and so annually call a General Court of all the Members of the said Company who shall have subscribed 500 l. and paid in according to the directions of this Act and shall have taken the Oath of Admission to elect a Governor Deputy-Governor and sixteen Committees for one year next ensuing and if any of them happen to die within the year the Governor or Deputy-Governor or five of the Committees may call a General Court to chuse another in his place during the remainder of the year XXXVI The Governors Deputy-Governors and Committees shall also take the Oaths appointed to be taken in lieu of the Oaths of Supremacy and Allegiance by an Act in the first year of their Majesties Reign The first Governor to take the said Oaths hereby appointed to be taken by the Governor before the Persons above-named or nine of them the first Deputy-Governor to take his Oaths before the first Governor and the first sixteen Committees to take theirs before the first Governor or the first Deputy-Governor and every succeeding Governor shall take the said Oaths before the last preceding Governor or any five or more of the last preceding Committees and every succeeding Deputy-Governor before the Governor or in case of his death and absence besore any five of the last preceding Committees and every Member of the succeeding Committees before the Governor or Deputy-Governor for the time being or any five or more of the last preceding Committees XXXVII After the said 20th of May next the said General Courts shall be summoned by the Governor or Deputy-Governor or five of the Committees at all which Courts the Governor or in his absence the Deputy-Governor shall be present and in case of equality of Votes shall have a casting Vote XXXVIII All Members having the Sum of 500 l. in the said Stock or having subscribed 500 l. and paid in according to the directions of this Act may assemble themselves at a General Court timely notice being given and make By-Laws as to them or the greater part of them shall seem meet for the good Government of the said Company and of all Persons employed in their Ships and Voyages and for the preservation and improvement of the said Trade which By-Laws shall be duly kept and observed under the Pains and Penalties therein limited so as they be not contrary to the Laws and Customs of the Realm nor to any Regulations made by this Act. XXXIX No private Contract for the sale of any Goods shall be made by the said Company to any Member thereof but all Goods belonging to the Company shall be sold publickly by Inch of Candle once a year at least of which Sales publick notice shall be given three Weeks before on the Royal Exchange and no Lot shall be exposed to sale of more than 300 l. value in the allotment and Monies arising by the sale of the said Companies Goods shall be applied to the advantage of the Joint-Stock and of the Persons therein concerned according to their proportions therein and not to the private advantage of any particular Person XL. Dividends of the Profits to be made in Mony only XLI Persons interested may transfer their Shares to Subjects born Persons naturalized or endenizen'd such Assignments to be entred in the Books of the Company which Books for assigning shall lie open for the view of all Persons concerned all other Assignments to be void except Devises by Will or where part of the Stock shall come to a Person as Executor or Administrator XLII No Persons shall agree for bargain or fell any greater part of the said Stock than such Sum only as they shall be possessed of bona fide and have standing in their own Names in the Companies Books XLIII All Agreements Contracts Bargains or Sales for any part of the said Stock not executed within ten days after
and reserving the ancient Rent or such as hath been paid for the greater part of twenty years next before the Year 1660. to those that have the Inheritance or else a reasonable Rent not being under the twentieth part of the clear yearly value III. All Covenants Covenants good against them to whom the Interest shall afterward come Conditions and Agreements in every Lease made as aforesaid shall be good in Law according to the contents of the same not only against them to whom the Reversion of the said Lands shall come but against them to whom the Interest of the said Leases shall come as if their Majesties at the making such Covenants and Conditions were actually seized in Fee-simple of the same IV. Saving to all Persons and Bodies Politick Saving of Rights their Heirs and Successors saving the King and Queen and their Heirs the Dukes of Cornwal for the time being and their Heirs or whosoever shall enjoy the Dukedom by force of any Act of Parliament all such Rights and Demands whatsoever of in to or out of the said Offices or Lands or any of them as they had before the making this Act any thing herein notwithstanding V. Fees for passing Leases The Fees and Charges to be paid for passing and perfecting Leases of Tenements of small value where the Fine or Value of such Lease or Grant to be made or renewed shall not exceed 80 l. shall not exceed the Sum of 10 l. for every Lease and 4 l. for every Copy besides the said Fine or Value the said 10 l. and 4 l. to be divided among the Officers of the Exchequer imployed for the preparing and passing such Lease or Grant and if any Officer exceed the same he shall forfeit to the Party grieved so much as is exceeded by this Act and also 20 l. one moiety whereof shall be forfeited to the King and the other to the Party grieved Militia I. STat. 5 6 W. M. Sess 5. cap. 13. An Act for raising the Militia of this Kingdom for the year 1694. although the Months Pay formerly advanced be not repaid Mines I. Lawful to dig in Mines notwithstanding pretended to be Royal. Stat. 5 W. M. Sess 5. cap. 6. All Persons Subjects of the Crown of England Bodies Politick or Corporate having or that shall have any Mine or Mines within the Kingdom of England or Wales wherein any Ore now is or shall be discovered or wrought in which there is Copper Tin Iron or Lead shall and may enjoy the same Mine or Mines and Ore and dig and work the said Mine or Mines or Ore notwithstanding they shall be pretended or claimed to be a Royal Mine or Mines II. Rates to be paid for Ore where Mines are pretended to be Royal Provided that their Majesties their Heirs and Successors and all claiming any Royal Mines under them may have the Ore of such Mines in any part of England or Wales other than in the Counties of Devon and Cornwal paying to the Owners of the said Mines wherein such Ore is or shall be found within thirty days after the said Ore is or shall be laid upon the Banks of the said Mines and before the same be removed thence the Rates following viz. For all Ore washt made clean and merchantable wherein is Copper 16 l. per Tun For all Ore washt made clean and merchantable wherein is Tin 40 s. per Tun And for all Ore washt made clean and merchantable wherein is Iron 40 s. per Tun And for all Ore washt made clean and merchantable wherein is Lead 9 l. per Tun and in default of payment of such respective Sums as aforesaid it shall be lawful for the Owners of the said Mines wherein such Ore shall be found to dispose of the said Ore to their own uses Orphans I. STat. 5 6 W. M. Sess 5. cap. 4. Perpetual Fond to pay the Interest of 4 l. per Gent. unto Dec. 25th 1693. From the time first due to Dec. 25th 1683 at 5 l. per Cent. And from thence to Dec. 25th 1693. at 3 l. per Cent. 4 l. per Cent. from the 25th of Dec. 1655 to the 25 of Dec. 1693 and so proportionably The City Lands c. excepting the Revenues of the Hospitals and Repairs of London-Bridge for ever chargeable after the 24th of June 1694. for raising the Annual Sum of 8000 l. It is enacted That for the raising a perpetual Fond to pay the yearly Interest of four pounds for every hundred pound principal Mony and of all the Interest thereof due to any Orphan of the City or the Executors Administrators or Assigns of such Orphan unto the 25th day of December 1693. The Interest to be computed from the time first payable unto the 25th day of December 1683. at five pounds for the Interest of every hundred pounds for one year And from that time to the 25th day of December 1693. at three pounds and so proportionably for any greater or lesser Sum the Interest already received for such principal Mony to be deducted and to pay the like yearly Interest of four pounds for every hundred pounds of the principal Mony and Interest thereof to be computed as aforesaid due upon Bond Bill or Note liable to pay Interest between the 25th day of December 1655. and the same day of December 1693. or any other the Creditor of the same City or the Executors Administrators or Assigns of such Creditor on the said 25th day of December 1693. from the Chamber of the said City or from the Mayor Commonalty or Citizens thereof and so proportionably for any greater or lesser Sum the Manners Messuages Lands Markets and Fairs and other the Hereditaments and Revenues belonging to the same City in possession or reversion and the Improvements that shall be made thereof except such the Lands and Revenues belonging to the Hospitals of the same City or Borough of Southwark or such as are chargeable with the Repairs of London Bridge shall be yearly charged for ever after the 24th day of June 1694. for the raising the Annual Sum of eight thousand pounds to be appropriated for the raising such a perpetual Fond and be applied as aforesaid II. The Aqueducts belonging to the City The City Aqueducts liable and their Rents except the Profits of such Water as shall be for the Supply of the publick Conduits Hospitals Halls and Prisons shall be for ever appropriated and applied towards payment of the said Interest III. 2000 l. annually out of Personal Estates And for the raising such a perpertual Fond the Common Council may every year raise and assess the Sum of two thousand pounds upon the Personal Estates of the several Inhabitants within the City and Liberties and to distrain for default of payment IV. Leases of the Convex Lights for 21 years from June 24th 1694 600 l. per ann The City may Lease to the Persons concerned in the Convex Lights the sole use of
this Act any Chamber-rent Fee or Reward for any thing relating to his Discharge above the Sum of 6 s. 6 d. in the whole upon pain of forfeiting the value of the Debt and upon pain of being proceeded against as an Extortioner any Law Act of Parliament or Usage to the contrary notwithstanding IV. The Justice of Peace his Clerks Fee And that no Justice of Peace his Clerk or Servant shall take of any Prisoner for signing his Warrant and Summons any Fee or Reward whatsoever nor any Clerk of the Papers or other Officer that shall make out any Copies of Causes for the said Prisoner shall take for the same above 4 d. upon pain to be proceeded against as Extortioners aforesaid V. No Debt contracted since Nov. 28. 1690. shall hereby be discharged Provided that no Debtor shall by virtue of this or the aforesaid Act be discharged of any Debt contracted by such Debtor since the 28th day of November which was in the Year 1690. Ships I. Builders of 3 Deck Ships within 10 years from first M. 1694. their allowance for Customs STat. 5 6 W. M. Sess 5. cap. 18. Every Person that shall within ten years from and after the first of May 1694. build or cause to be built within any of their Majesties Dominions any Ships or Vessels of three Decks reckoning the Orlop for one with a Fore-castle Quarter-deck Round-house and six Foot between each Deck from Plank to Plank their Hawrses to be between Decks the said Ships to be of no less than 450 Tun and to have no less than ten Ports of a side between Decks mounted with 32 Pieces of Ordnance close of which 18 to be between Decks the said Guns upon the lower Deck to be Demy-Culverine of 3000 weight at least upon the Upper-deck Fore-castle and Steerage to be also Demy-Culverine of 2200 weight at least and those in the Cuddy to be 600 weight at least and other Ammunition proportionably shall for the first three Voyages which the said Ship or Ships shall make from their Majesties Dominions to any Foreign Parts receive to their own use and benefit one tenth part of the Customs commonly call'd or known by the name of the Subsidy of Tunnage and Poundage that shall be paid to their Majesties for all such Goods and Merchandizes as shall be exported and imported on the said Ship or Ships to and from this Kingdom and the Commissioners and Officers of their Majesties Customs are hereby impowered to pay the same to the respective Owners accordingly II. The penalty if altered And if at any time after the end of the said three first Voyages any of the said Ships or Vessels so to be built as aforesaid shall be altered or put into another form of Building whereby they shall become or be made less defensible than they were at first building that then every such Ship or Vessel with all the Guns Tackle Ammunition and Apparel thereof shall be forfeited and lost I. Stat. 5 6 W. M. Sess 5. cap. 19. Offences done since 24 June 1694. may be tried in the Kings Bench or by Justices of Oyer and Terminer All Offences contrary to one Act made in the 13th year of King Charles II. Entituled An Act for the establishing Articles and Orders for the regulating and better Government of his Majesties Navies Ships of War and Forces by Sea which shall be committed after the 24th of June 1694. may be tried and determined in the Kings Bench at Westminster or before Justices of Oyer and Terminer appointed by their Majesties which said Courts are hereby impowered to hear and determine the same according to the Common Law and to inflict such Penalties as are appointed by the said Act. II. Offences done out of the Realm c. Person tried by a Court Martial not to be tried again How long to continue Where any of the said Offences shall be committed out of this Realm the same may be alledged and laid in any County within this Realm III. Provided that no Person who shall be tried in a Court-Martial shall for the same Offence be again tried by virtue of this Act nor shall any Person tried by virtue of this Act be tried again by a Court-Martial IV. Provided also that this Act shall continue in force for three years and from thence to the end of the next Session of Parliament Souldiers I. Stat. 5 6 W. M. Sess 5. cap. 9. The Act made in the last Session of this Parliament Entituled An Act for punishing Officers and Souldiers who shall mutiny and desert their Majesties Service and for punishing false Musters and for payment of Quarters shall continue and be in force until the first of March 1694. and no longer II. Who shall be accounted a listed Souldier No Person that shall be listed for the Land-Service after the first of March 1693. shall be esteemed a listed Souldier or be subject to any of the Pains and Penalties of this Act or any other Penalty for his Behaviour as a Souldier that shall not have been brought before a Justice of Peace not being an Officer in the Army or Chief Magistrate of some City or Town-Corporate or High Constable or Pety Constable in the Hundred or Division where the Person shall be listed and before such Justice Magistrate or High Constable or Pety Constable declare his free consent to be listed or mustred as a Souldier before he be listed or mustred or inserted in any Muster-Roll of a Regiment Troop or Company as aforesaid And every Military Officer that shall offend herein shall incur the like Penalty and Forfeiture as is by the said continued Act to be inflicted upon any Officer for making a false and untrue Muster Sureties I. St. 10 E. 3. for finding Sureties for Good Behavior repealed Stat. 5 6 W. M. Sess 5. cap. 7. The Statute the 10th year of King Edw. III. for finding Sureties for the Good abearing by him or her that hath a Pardon of Felony is hereby made void and repealed II. Provided At the Justices discretion that if any Charter of Pardon be pleaded by any Person for any Felony the Justices before whom such Pardon shall be pleaded may at their discretion remand or commit such Person to Prison there to remain until he or she shall enter into a Recognizance with two sufficient Sureties for his or her being of the Good Behaviour for any time not exceeding seven years III. Provided Feme-Covert or Infant to find Sureties if any such Charter of Pardon be pleaded by a Feme-Covert or Infant such Feme-Covert or Infant may find two sufficient Sureties who shall enter into a Recognizance for his or her being of the Good Behaviour as aforesaid Taxes Aid of 4 s. in the Pound I. STat. 5 W. M. Sess 5. cap. 1. 4 s. in the Pound to be paid for all personal Estates excepting desperate Debts and Houshold-stuff All and