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
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
Exchequer and their Sureties and all Recognizances and Conditions for the payment of Mony XXV This Act shall not discharge any Recognizance c. not yet forfeited nor any forfeited Recognizanc c. whereof the Farmers of the Excise or any part of the Revenue ought to receive benefit nor any Debt due by Recognizance c. to any Persons endebted to their Majesties which hath been seiz'd in Aid nor any Debt whereupon any enstalment or seizure hath been made upon which any thing is or since the 25th of March hath been answered and paid nor to discharge any Forfeitures or Sums of Mony due to their Majesties by any Statute which Forfeitures c. since the said 25th of March are converted into the nature of a Debt or have been install'd or any seizure made for them upon which any thing has been paid since the said 25th of March. XXVI But all Recognizances c. forfeited since the said 25th of March for non-payment in any Court or other place or not keeping the Peace or not being of the Good Behaviour are discharged except Recognizances granted to or in trust for the Lord Almoner XXVII And except all Issues Fines and Amerciaments lost or assessed since the said 25th day of March being totted or received by any Officer before the last day of this Session of Parliament and all Issues c. lost or assess'd since the said 25th day of March affeered taxed estreated or entred severally touching any one or more Persons joyntly or severally above 6 l. and except Issues Fines c. set in any Court of Record at Westminster within a year before the first day of this Parliament XXVIII But all other Fines as well pro lic concord as others set or entred before that time and Issues and Amerciaments as well real as others set or entred before the time aforesaid and which do not exceed 6 l. whether estreated or not estreated whether turn'd into Debt or not and not being totted or received by any Officer before the first day of this Parliament shall be discharged yet nevertheless the estreats of such Fines c. already estreated out of the Exchequer and remaining in the Sheriffs Hands shall upon the return of such Estreats be charged and delivered by Scrowes into the Pipe-Office as hath been accustomed and yet Sheriffs and other Accountants upon Petition to have allowance for such Fines c. as are pardoned shall have their Petition allowed without Fee XXIX This Act shall not pardon any who by Name are excepted out of the Act of Oblivion made 12 Car. 2. nor to those two Persons who appeared in Vizors upon the Scaffold when King Charles I. was murther'd XXX Nor shall this Act restore any Ability to exercise Offices or to serve in Parliament c. to persons disabled by any other Laws XXXI Nor shall this Act discharge any person who if he after the first day of September 1660. has exercised any Office is by the said Act of 12 Car. 2. to stand as if excepted out of the said Act by Name XXXII And except all persons attainted by Act of Parliament or otherwise for any Rebellion levying of War or any Conspiracy thereof in any of their Majesties Dominions and all persons attainted or outlawed for any other Treason Petit Treason Murder wilful Poysoning or Burglary XXXIII And except all persons who by any former Act are by Name made liable to any penalties whatsoever XXXIV And except persons who after conviction or attainder for any Felony have desired to be transported XXXV And except persons who being excepted out of the said general Act of 12 Car. 2. have had any pains or penalties imposed on them by any subsequent Act. XXXVI And except all penalties of 500 l. which shall by any Act of this Session be inflicted for holding Offices contrary to an Act of Parliament made in the 25th of King Charles II. Entituled An Act for preventing Dangers which may happen from Popish Recusants XXXVII And except William Marquiss of Powis Theophilus Earl of Huntington Robert Earl of Sunderland John Earl of Melfort Roger Earl of Castlemain the Lord Thomas Howard Nathaniel Lord Bishop of Durham Thomas Lord Bishop of St. Davids Henry Lord Dover William Molineux Sir Edward Hales Sir Edward Herbert Sir Francis Wythens Sir Richard Holloway Sir Edward Lutwich Sir Richard Heath Sir Thomas Jenner Sir Roger l'Estrange Sir Nicholas Butler Edward Petre Thomas Tindesley Townly Rowland Tempest Edward Morgan Obadiah Walker Robert Brent Richard Graham Philip Burton Robert Lundy Matthew Crone and George Lord Jefferies deceased XXXVIII And also except all Offences committed by Jesuits and Romish Priests contrary to the Statute made in the 27th year of Queen Elizabeth Entituled An Act against Jesuits Seminary Priests and other disobedient Persons and except all Convictions of Popish Recusants XXXIX No Process of Outlawry at the Suit of any person Plaintiff shall by virtue of this Act be stay'd unless the Defendant appear and put in Bail where the Law requires it and take out a Seirs Fac Nor shall this Pardon discharge any Outlawry after Judgment till satisfaction or agreement with the party XL. Persons hereby pardoned may plead the Ceneral Issue and give this Act in Evidence XLI This Act shall be of as good force to pardon and discharge the Premisses against such as claim the same by any Grant from the Crown as against their Majesties themselves XLII Nothing in this Act shall discharge any person from abetting or procuring the raising War or Rebellion against their Majesties or adhering to their Enemies since the 13th day of February 1688. unless such person shall before the 20th day of July next or sooner if required take this Oath in such Court as shall have power to administer the same 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 Parliament I. Stat. 1 W. M. Sess 1. cap. 1. The Lords Spiritual and Temporal and Commons conven'd at Westminster the 22th day of January 1688. and there sitting on the 13th day of February following are the two Houses of Parliament to all intents and purposes notwithstanding the want of any Writs of Summons or other defect of Form and this Act and all other Acts to which the Royal Assent shall be given before the next Prorogation shall be adjudged to commence upon the said 13th day of February II. The Act made in the 30th year of King Charles II. Entituled An Act for the more effectual preserving the Kings Person and Government by disabling of Papists from sitting in either House of Parliament and all other Acts of Parliament as to so much of them as concerns the taking the Oaths of Allegiance and Supremacy or either of them by any Member of either House of Parliament with relation to their sitting and voting there are hereby repealed III. And the taking the Oaths herein after
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
upon Record against them or are charg'd in Execution or imprison'd upon Attachments for Debt or upon Outlawries for Debt or upon any Process in Law or Equity for Debt Damages or Costs only who shall take the Oath mentioned in the Act of 22 and 23 Car. 2. Entituled An Act for the Relief and Release of poor distressed Prisoners for Debt and the Oath in this Act following shall be released in manner and form as is mentioned in the said Act and in one other Act made in the 30th year of the said late King Charles II. Entituled An Act for the farther relief and discharge of Poor distressed Prisoners for Debt II. Justices of Peace who pursuant to the said Acts or to this present Act shall make any Order for the discharge of any poor Prisoner for Debt shall cause to come before them any Sheriff Gaoler or Keeper of Prison where such Prisoners are and administer to them this Oath viz. I A. B. do swear that J. S. was really and truly my Prisoner in my custody without any fraud or deceit in me or by any other to my knowledge at or upon the 28th day of November 1690. So help me God III. If any Sheriff Gaoler c. refuse to appear and take the said Oath he shall forfeit to such Prisoner so about to be discharged the value of the Debt for which he is imprisoned to be recovered by Action of Debt in any their Majesties Courts of Record and if any such Sheriff Gaoler c. shall forswear himself he shall suffer as a person convicted of perjury IV. Prisoners taking the benefit of this Act and taking the Oath in the first recited Act mentioned shall also before such Justice or Justices by whom such Oath is to be given take this Oath viz. I A. B. do swear That on the 28th day of November 1690. I was actually a Prisoner in the custody of the Gaoler or Keeper of D. Prison in the County of C. at the Suit of J.S. without my consent or procurement or by any Fraud or Collusion whatsoever So help me God V. Such Prisoners forswearing themselves besides the penalties now in force against persons convicted of Perjury shall suffer seven years imprisonment VI. This Act shall not extend to persons in Execution for a Fine impos'd for any Offence VII Taking the Oaths and giving the Creditors notice as by this Act is required in all other things for the discharge of any poor prisoner it shall be observed in form and method as is directed by the two before mentioned Acts. VIII None shall have the benefit of this Act who shall stand charged with more than 100 l. principal Mony or Damages or who shall stand charged with any Debt to their Majesties IX Notwithstanding the discharge of such Prisoners Judgments against them shall be good in Law against their Lands and Goods their wearing Apparel Bedding for them and their Familes and Tools for their Trade c. only excepted X. Stat. 4 5 W. M. cap. 21. If any Defendants taken or charged in custody upon any Writ or Writs out of any of the Courts at Westminster and detained for want of Sureties for their appearance the Plaintiffs may before the end of the next Term after such Writ or Process shall be returnable declare against such Prisoners in the Court out of which the Writ shall issue and cause a Copy thereof to be delivered to such Prisoners or the Gaoler in whose custody he shall remain to which if the said Prisoners shall not appear and plead the Plaintiff shall have Judgment as if they had appeared and refused to answer or plead XI In all Declarations against Prisoners detained by virtue of any Process out of the Kings Bench it shall be alledged in custody of what Sheriff Bailiff c. such Prisoners are at the time of such Declaration which allegation shall be as effectual as if such Prisoners were in the custody of the Marshal or the Marshalsey c. Prizes I. Stat. 3 4 W. M. cap. 4. An Act for preserving two Ships lading of Bay-Salt taken as Prize for the benefit of their Majesties Navy Religion I. SEat Anno 1 W. M. Sess 1. cap. 18. Neither the Statute made in the 23th year of Queen Elizabeth Entituled An Act to retain the Queens Majesties Subjects in their due Obedience nor that of the 29th of the said Queen Entituled An Act for the more speedy and due execution of certain Branches of the Statute made in the 23th year of the Queens Majesties Reign nor that Clause of a Statute made in the first year of the said Queens Reign Entituled An Act for the Uniformity of Common Prayer c. whereby all persons are required to resort to their Parish-Church or Chappel or some usual place of Common-prayer c. Nor the Statute made in the third year of the Reign of King James I. Entituled An Act for the better discovering and repressing Popish Recusants nor that other Statute made in the same year Entituled An Act to prevent and avoid Dangers which may grow by Popish Recusants nor any Statute made against Papists or Popish Recusants except the Statute made 25 Car. 2. Entituled An Act for preventing Dangers which may happen from Popish Recusants and except the Statute made Anno 30 Car. 2. Entituled An Act for the more effectual preserving the Kings Person and Government c. shall be construed to extend to any persons dissenting from the Church of England that shall take the Oaths mentioned in a Statute made this Parliament Entituled An Act for removing and preventing all Questions and Disputes concerning the assembling and sitting of this Parliament and shall make and subscribe the Declaration mentioned in a Statute made in the 30th year of King Charles II. Entituled An Act to prevent Papists from sitting in either House of Parliament which Oaths and Declaration the Justices of Peace at their General Quarter-Sessions are hereby required to administer and thereof to keep a Register no Fee or Reward to be paid above 6 d. for such Entry and that but once nor above the farther Sum of 6 d. for a Certificate thereof II. Persons already convicted or prosecuted in order to Conviction of Recusancy that shall take the said Oaths mentioned in the said Statute made in this Parliament and make and subscribe the Declaration aforesaid in the Court of Exchequer or Assizes or General Quarter-Sessions c. to be thence certified into the Exchequer shall be discharged from all Penalties c. incurred by any the aforesaid Statutes III. All persons that shall take the said Oaths and make and subscribe the said Declaration shall not be liable to any penalties mentioned in an Act of the 35th of Queen Elizabeth Entituled An Act to retain the Queens Majesties Subjects in their due Obedience nor in an Act made in the 22th year of King Charles II. Entituled An Act to prevent and suppress Seditious Conventicles nor shall be prosecuted in
the Penalties to which he is liable but shall have one half of the Penalties imposed upon the Parties making such Insurance or Receiving the Goods as aforesaid and in Case no Discovery be made by the Insurer and the Party Insured shall make discovery thereof he shall recover back his Praenium and have One Moiety of the Forfeitures imposed upon the Insurer and be discharged of the imposed upon himself CLXIX The said Penalties and Forseitures to be Recoverable according to the Course of the Court of Exchequer as other Penalties in like Cases are Recoverable CLXX No Penalty hereby inflicted to be recoverable unless presented within Twelve Months after the Fact Committed CLXXI. All Duties whatsoever that shall accrue to Their Majesties at the custom-Custom-house after the 25th day of March 1693. for Prize-Goods shall be applied entirely to the Credit of an Act of Parliament made this Session Entituled An Act for Granting to Their Majesties certain Additional Impositions upon several Goods and Merchandize for the Prosecuting the present War against France Any other Act to the contrary notwithstanding Deer Stealers I. Stat. 3. 4. W. M. cap. 10. If any Persons shall unlawfully Course Hunt Take in Toyles Kill Wound or take away any Red or Fallow Deer in any Forest Chase Purlieu Paddock Wood Park or other Ground inclosed where Deer are or shall be usually kept without the consent of the Owner or Person entrusted with the Custody thereof or be aiding therein and shall be Convicted by Confession or the Oath of one Witness before a Justice of Peace of the County where the Offence shall be Committed or the Party Apprehended within a Twelve-month after the Offence done they shall Forseit for every such Offence 20 l. and for every Deer wounded taken or killed 30 l. to be Levied by Distress and Sale of Goods by Warrant from the Justice before whom the Conviction shall be made the One third Part to the Informer the other third Part to the Poor of the Parish where the Offence shall be Committed and the other third to the Owner of the Deer And for want of a Distress they shall be Imprisoned a year and set in the Pillory an hour on some Market-Day in the Town next adjoyning to the Place where the Offence was Committed by the Chief Officer of such Market Town or his under Officers II. Constables Head-boroughs and Tythingmen by a Justices Warrant may Enter and Search as for Stolen Goods the Houses and other Places of suspected Persons and if any Venison or Skins of Deer or Toyles be found shall carry such Offender before a Justice of Peace and if he do not give a good Account how he came by them and in some convenient time produce the Party of whom he bought them or prove such Sale upon Oath he shall be Convicted of such Offence and be subject to the Penalties hereby inflicted for killing a Deer III. The Constable or other Officer or Persons prosecuting may detain such Offenders in Custody if they do not presently pay the Moneys due by the Conviction till a Return may be made of the Warrant for Distress such Detainer not exceeding Two days IV. Owners of any such Deer or any acting under them may resist such Offenders and be Indemnified as if such Fact had been Committed in an ancient Chase or Park V. No Certiorari shall be allowed to remove any Conviction or other proceeding upon this Act unless the Party Convicted shall before it be Allowed become bound to the Prosecutors in 50 l. with Sureties to be approved by the said Justice to pay within a Month after the Conviction confirm'd or a procedendo Granted their full Costs to be ascertain'd upon Oath VI. No Offender Punished by Virtue of this Act shall incur the Penalty of any other Law for the same Offence VII Persons prosecuted for any thing done in pursuance of this Act may Plead the general Issue and give the special Matter in Evidence VIII If any Person shall in the night time pull down or destroy or cause to be pull'd down or destroyed the Pails or Walls of any Park Forest c. or other Ground inclosed where Red or Fallow-Deer shall be kept such Persons being Convicted by Oath of one Witness before a Justice of Peace shall by such Justices Warrant suffer Imprisonment for Three Months Distresses I. Sat. 2. W. M. Sess 1. cap. 5. After the First Day of June 1690. where any Goods or Chattels shall be distrained for Rent reserved and due upon any Demise Lease or Contract and the Tenant or Owner of the Goods shall not within Five days after such Distress and Notice thereof with the cause of such taking left at the Mansion-house or other most notorious Place of the Premisses charged with the Rent Replevy the same the Person distraining may with the Sheriff or Under-Sheriff of the County or with the Constable of the Hundred Parish or Place where c. who are hereby required to assist cause the Distress to be appraised by Two sworn Appraisers whom such Sheriff c. shall swear to Appraise them truly according to the best of their Understanding and after such Appraisement may Sell the same towards the satisfaction of the Rent and the Charges of the Distress and Appraisement leaving the Overplus if any be in the hands of the said Sheriff c. for the Owners Use II. It shall be Lawful to Distrain for Rent arrear as aforesaid any Sheaves or Cocks of Corn or Corn loose or in the Straw or Hay in any Barn or Granary or upon any Hovel Stack or Rick or otherwise and to lock up and detain the same in the Place where it shall be found till it be Replevied as aforesaid and in default thereof within the time aforesaid to Sell the same after Appraisement as aforesaid so nevertheless that it be not removed to the damage of the Owner but kept where it shall be found and seiz'd as Impounded till it be Replevied or Sold. III. Upon any Pound-breach or Rescous of Goods Distrained for Rent the Person grieved shall have a special Action upon the Case and Recover treble Damages and Costs of Suit against the Offenders or against the Owners of the Goods if they come to his Use or Possession IV. If any such Distress and Sale as aforesaid shall be made where there is no Rent due the Owner of the Goods Distrained may by Action of Trespass or upon the Case against the Persons distraining Recover double the Value of the Goods Distrained with full Costs of Suit Excise I. STat. 1. W. M. Sess 1. cap. 24. From the 24th day of July 1689. there shall be paid to Their Majesties for Three years for Beer Ale Cyder and other Liquors herein after mentioned by way of Excise over and above the Duties already Charged That is to say For every Barrel of Beer or Ale above 6 s. price 9 d. For every Barrel of Beer or Ale of 6 s. or under 3
Low-wines drawn from Drink so mixed with 12 d. a Gallon XXXVI No Distillers or others drawing Low-wines or Spirits from Corn prepared as aforesaid shall prepare any wash from Molossus or other Materials from any other Person until he has drawn off and distilled all the Liquors made or prepared from Corn as aforesaid on pain to forfeit for every Barrel of such Liquors made of Corn found undistilled 5 l. XXXVII If any Gauger or other Officer of the Excise shall wittingly make a false Charge by returning any quantity of Low-wines not made from malted Corn as made from malted Corn he shall lose his Employment and forfeit for every Gallon so falsly charged 10 s. XXXVIII Distillers and others upon Oath made before two Commissioners of Excise or Justices of the Peace That any Brandy or Strong waters intended to be Exported was drawn from Drink brewed from malted Corn without any mixture and that the same is not mix'd with any Low-wines nor drawn a second time nor with any other Spirits or Brandy made from any other Materials and that the Duties of the same are entred and paid and that the same are Exported for Merchandise may Export such Spirits or Brandy and upon a Certificate from the Officer of Excise for the Place where they were shipt off of the quantity and the same were shipt in the presence of such Officers such Exporter shall be paid by the Commissioners for such Port or Place 3 d. for every Gallon shipt off XXXIX The Gaugers shall take an Account of all Wash and other Materials prepared for making Low-wines and of all Low-wines Spirits and Strong-waters found in the Houses c. or in any Wash-back Cask or other Vessel used by any Maker of Low-wines or Spirits and if they miss any Liquor brewed which they sound gauged the last time they were there not exceeding 24 hours before and shall not receive Satisfaction what is become of it they shall charge the Distiller with so much Low-wines as such Liquor missing would have made XL. From the said 24th day of Decemb. no Maker of Low-wines c. shall set their Stills at work or deliver or carry out any Low-wines c. to their Customers in Cask or by the Gallon without Notice given to the Officer of Excise for the Place where he lives unless from the 29th day of Septemb. to the 25th of March yearly between 5 in the Morning and 8 at Night and from the 25th of March to the 29th of Septemb. between 3 in the Morning and 9 at Night on pain to forfeit for every such Offence 10 l. XLI The Duties hereby imposed shall be levyed in such manner and under such Penalties as are directed by an Act of Parliament made in the 12th year of K. Charles II. Entituled An Act for taking away the Court of wards and Liveries c. And by another Act in the 15th year of his Reign Entituled An Additional Act for the better Ordering and collecting the Duties of Excise and Preventing the Abuses therein or by any other Law now in force relating to the Excise XLII Fines Penalties and Forfeitures hereby imposed shall be recovered as by any Law of Excise is directed or by Action of Debt Bill Plaint or Information in any Their Majesties Courts of Record at Westminster one Moiety to Their Majesties and the other to the Prosecutor XLIII Any Persons during the continuance of this Act may distil for Sale any Low-wines or Spirits from Drink brewed from malted Corn only paying the Duties and being subject to the Penalties as other Distillers XLIV Strong-waters Brandy Aqua vitae or Spirits brought from Guernsey Jersey Sark or Alderney shall be charged with 8 s. a Gallon to be paid to the Collector upon Entry before landing and other Exciseable Liquors brought from thence except Beer Ale and Mum shall be chargeable with the like Duties as are charged upon the like Liquors made in this Kingdom And before the landing of any such Liquor the Importer or owner shall make oath before the Collector or principal Officer of the Customs of the Port where they are to be landed That they are of the Growth and Manufacture of the said Islands and not mix'd with any foreign Materials and if they be Imported before due Entry such Oath made and the Duties paid they shall be destroyed and Persons concerned in their Importation shall incur the Penalties mentioned in an Act made in the 1st year of Their Majesties Reign Entituled An Act for prohibiting all Trade and Commerce with France XLV All Letters Patents made or to be made for the sole making of Brandy c. from Corn of any sorts as a new Invention are hereby declared void XLVI Stat. 2 W. M. Sess 2. cap. 10. From the 17th day of November 1691. there shall be paid during 4 Years for the Liquors hereafter-mentioned over and above Impositions already set as followeth viz. For a Barrel of Beer or Ale above 6 s. the Barrel 1 s. 6 d. For every such Barrel of 6 s. or under 6 d. For every Barrel of Vinegar or Vinegar-beer made with English Materials 3 s. For every Barrel of Vinegar or Liquor prepared for Vinegar made with Foreign Materials 8 s. For every barrel of Beer Ale or Mum Imported 6 s. For every Tun of Cyder or Perry Imported 8 l. For every Gallon of Single Brandy Spirits or Aqua vitae Imported 4 s. For every such Gallon above Proof Imported 8 s. For every Hogshead of Cyder and Perry made and sold by retail 2 s. 6 d. For all Metheglin and Mead made for sale 6 d. a Gallon XLVII The said Rates and Duties to be levied in such manner and under such Penalties as are mentioned in an Act of Parliament made in the 1st year of Their Majesties Reign Entituled An Act for an Additional Duty of Excise upon Beer Ale and other Liquors or by any Law in force relating to the Excise XLVIII Nothing in this Act shall be construed to continue the Duties granted by an Act in the 1st year of Their Majesties Reign Entituled An Act for an Additional Duty of Excise c. or any other Duties of Excise for any longer time then they are granted by the said Act or Acts. XLIX Victuallers Retailers or Common Brewers who within a year before the 17th of November last have not brewed their own Beer and Ale may brew and make the Beer and Ale spent or sold in their Houses c. paying the Excise and on their entring the same at the Excise-Office and paying the Duty they shall not be liable to the Penalty of 100 l. imposed by an Act of this Parliament Entituled An Act for doubling the Duty of Excise upon Beer Ale and other Liquors for the space of One Year L. All Moneys which shall become payable to Their Majesties by Virtue of the said Act Entituled An Act for an Additional Duty of Excise upon Beer Ale and other Liquors after the Sum of
or receiving any Pay Salary Fee or Wages as aforesaid or being Master Governor c. and others aforesaid neglecting so to do shall be ipso facto adjudged incapable to enjoy any such Office Pay Salary Fee or Wages Mastership Governors Place Headship Fellowship Employment or any Matter aforesaid of Profit appertaining thereunto and such Office and Place shall be adjudged void X. Barristers at Law Attornies Clerks and Officers in Chancery and other Courts and their Deputies or that shall Practise as such in Ireland after the last day of Hillary-Term next shall take the said Oaths and make and subscribe the said Declaration in the Kings Bench at Dublin before they be admitted to exercise any Place or Office or to Practise or Plead in any Court and all Persons that after the first day of March next shall be admitted into any Office or Employment or come into any Capacity by reason of which they should have been obliged to take the said abrogated Oaths shall take the said Oaths and make and subscribe the Declaration hereby appointed at such times and before such Persons as they ought to have taken the said former Oath by virtue of the said Act. XI No Person that is or shall be a Peer of Ireland shall Vote or make his Proxy in the House of Peers or sit there during any Debate nor shall any Member of the House of Commons vote or sit there during any Debate after the Speaker is chosen unless he first take the said Oaths and make subscribe and repeat this Declaration viz. I A. B. do solemnly and sincerely in the presence of God profess testifie and declare That I do believe that in the Sacrament of the Lords Supper there is not any Transubstantiation of the Elements of Bread and Wine into the Body and Blood of Christ at or after the Consecration thereof by any Person whatsoever and that the Invocation or Adoration of the Virgin Mary or any other Saint and the Sacrifice of the Mass as they are now used in the Church of Rome are Superstitious and Idolatrous And I do solemnly in the presence of God profess testifie and declare That I do make this Declaration and every part thereof in the plain and ordinary sense of the Words read unto me as they are commonly understood by Protestants without any Evasion Equivocation or mental Reservation whatsoever and without any Dispensation already granted me for this purpose from the Pope or any other Authority or Person whatsoever or without Dispensation from any Person or Authority whatsoever or without believing that I am or can be acquitted before God or Man or absolved of this Declaration or any part thereof although the Pope or any other Person or Persons or Power whatsoever should dispense with or annul the same or declare that it was null and void from the beginning XII Which said Oaths and Declaration shall in the next and every Parliament in Ireland be made and subscribed between 9 in the Morning and 4 in the Afternoon by the Peers at the Table in the middle of the House before they take their Place and whilst a full House is present and their Speaker in his Place and by the Members of the House of Commons at the Table in the middle of their House when a full House is sitting with their Speaker in his Chair in such method as each House is called over during which time all Business to cease and the Clerks are to Record the same taking of every Member of each House 1 s. XIII Peers and Members of the House of Commons Barristers at Law Attornies Clerks or Officers in Chancery or other Courts and Deputies in any Office offending contrary to this Act shall be disabled to hold any Office or Place of Profit or Trust Ecclesiastical Civil or Military there or here or in any of their Majesties Islands or Plantations and shall be disabled to sit in Parliament or make a Proxy or to sue at Law or in Equity or to be Guardian or Executor or Administrator or to take a Legacy or Deed or Gift and shall forfeit 500 l. to be recovered by them that will sue for the same XIV The Oaths required to be taken by this Act 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 and 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 Jurisdiction Power Superiority Preheminence or Authority Ecclesiastical or Spiritual within this Realm So help me God XV. This Act shall not extend to any now Chaplain Secretary or Attendant to any of their Majesties Ambassadors Envoys or Ministers in any foreign Courts or Preacher to any English Factory or to any Chaplains in their Majesties Service by Sea or Land out of Ireland so as they take the said Oaths and make and subscribe the said Declaration within three months after their return nor to any Protestant now in Office or Place of Trust or Profit out of Ireland or England who shall return into Ireland and take the same before the 25th of December 1692. in the Kings Bench there the next Term after their arrival there XVI Archbishops and Bishops of Ireland and others having any Ecclesiastical Office or Promotion or being a Lecturer or Curate there that shall be in England the first day of Hillary-Term 1691. shall take the said Oaths and make and subscribe the said Declaration before the end of the said Term in the Chancery or Court of Kings Bench here and again before the 25th day of July 1692. in the Chancery or Court of Kings Bench there as aforesaid and if they neglect or refuse so to do they shall be ipso facto deprived and become incapable to be Lecturers or Curates any where and all other the Persons above mentioned who shall be here on the first day of the said Hillary-Term shall take the said Oaths and make and subscribe the said Declaration in Chancery or the Kings Bench in England or elsewhere shall be adjudged ipso facto incapable and disabled to hold and enjoy such Office pay c. Imployment or any part of them which taking the said Oaths c. in England shall be as effectual as if they had taken the same in Ireland XVII This Act shall not extend to disable any Persons who on the third of October 1691. were residing in Lymerick or in any Garrison then in the possession of the Irish or any Officers or Souldiers then in Arms by virtue of any Commission from the late King James or any commissioned Officers then in their
treble Costs X. A Register shall be kept at the custom-Custom-house London of all Wool imported from Ireland and of all Wool sent from one Port to another in this Kingdom the Weights and Numbers Ship Masters Name Owners Name and to whom consigned This Act to continue for three years and from thence to the end of the next Session of Parliament XI Any Persons may buy Cloth Stuffs Stockings or other Woollen Manufactures and export the same paying the usual Customs XII Nothing in this Act shall be construed to avoid the Charters granted to the Levant Eastland Russia or African Companies XIII It shall be lawful to transport from Southampton only for the use of the Inhabitants of Guernsey Jersey Alderney and Sark 1000 Tods of unkemb Wool for Guernsey 2000 for Jersey 200 for Alderney and 100 for Sark more than by the Act made in the 12th year of King Charles II. is provided for the same to be done according to the Directions and under the Penalties therein appointed and inflicted and on the farther Penalty of 20 l. for every Tod of Wool and forfeiture of the Wool it self one half to the King one Quarter to the Informer and one Quarter to the Poor of the said Islands in case of transporting or attempting to transport any of the said Wool from the said Islands for every Offence therein and that every Person so offending shall after the first Offence be incapable of any Grant of any Wool from the said Port of Southampton nor ever after have any Warrant granted him for that purpose the said Penalties to be recovered by him that will sue for the same by Action of Debt Bill Plaint or Information c. Yarmouth I. STat. 1 W. M. Sess 1. cap. 11. The Powers Authorities and Benefits given to the Mayor Aldermen Burgesses and Commonalty of Great Yarmouth by an Act made in the first year of the late King James Entituled An Act for clearing preserving maintaining and repairing the Haven and Rivers of Great Yarmouth are hereby vested in the Bailiffs Aldermen Burgesses and Commonalty of the said Borough that now are and their Successors And the Powers Authorities and Benefits by the said Act given to the said Mayor are hereby vested in the Bailiff or Bailiffs for the time being and their Successors II. Officers Collectors Receivers and Commissioners to be appointed by the afore-mentioned or this Act may pursue the several Powers therein given and directed III. Monies directed by the said Act to be paid into the Hands of the Chamberlain of the said Borough shall be paid into the Hands of such as the Bailiffs Aldermen Burgesses and Commonalty in Common Council assembled shall direct IV. If within the residue of the time by the said recited Act limited there shall be any alteration by any new Charters from Bailiffs to Mayors then the Mayor Aldermen Burgesses and Commonalty shall execute the Powers c. in the recited Act mentioned as therein is expressed AN EXACT ABRIDGMENT Of all the STATUTES MADE In the fifth Session of this present Parliament in the fifth and sixth Years of the Reign of their MAJESTIES King William and Queen Mary AN ABRIDGMENT OF THE STATUTES MADE In the fifth Session of this present PARLIAMENT Accounts I. Stat. 5 6 W. M. Sess 5. cap. 17. Commissioners Names for stating Publick Accounts Robert Harley Esquire Sir Thomas Pope Blount Baronet Paul Foley Esquire Sir Thomas Clarges Knight Charles Hutchinson Esquire Sir Edward Abney Knight and Sir James Houblon Knight constituted Commissioners for examining and stating the Accounts of all the Mony and Publick Revenue of the Crown granted by one Act of Parliament made in the second year of their Majesties Reign Entituled An Act for appointing and inabling Commissioners to examine take and state the Publick Accounts of the Kingdom Acts of 2d and 4th and 5th of W. and M. revived And one other Act in the 4th and 5th years of their Majesties Reign Entituled An Act for examining taking and stating the Publick Accounts of this Kingdom to be examined and stated by the Commissioners by the said Acts constituted or any five or more of them appointed by the said Acts or either of them and that the said Acts be revived from the 24th of April 1694. to the 25th of April which shall be in the year 1695. and shall be executed with all the Powers therein contained by the Commissioners herein named or any four or more of them and Allowances to be made to the said Commissioners and the Clerks and all other Charges from the Commissioners of the Treasury as in the first recited Act. Commissioners power to examine and state Accounts And the said Commissioners have Power to examine and state Accounts of all Monies granted to their Majesties by one Act made in this present Session of Parliament Entituled An Act for granting to their Majesties an Aid of 4 s. in the Pound for one Year for carrying on a vigorous War against France and of all Monies that have or shall be granted their Majesties in this present Session and of all other their Majesties Treasure or publick Mony due to them on the 5th of November 1688. or at any time between the said 5th of November and the said 25th of April which shall be in the year 1695. not yet accounted for by virtue of the said Acts or either of them or the last Clause touching Publick Accounts made in an Act made in the third Year of their Majesties Reign Entituled An Act for raising Mony by a Poll payable quarterly for one year for the carrying on a vigorous War against France II. Irish Accounts to be stated against and presented next Parliament And the said Commissioners are hereby required to summon the Commissioners appointed for the Transport Ships for the War of Ireland or any other Contractors or their Owners and Proprietors of the said Ships to state the Accounts and adjust the Debt due for the said Ships which Accounts so stared they are to prepare against the next Session of Parliament Coaches I. Commissioners for Hackney-Coaches STat. 5 6 W. M. Sess 5. cap. 16. After the 10th of May 1694. their Majesties may appoint Commissioners not exceeding five in number for regulating and licensing Hackney-Coaches within the Cities of London and Westminster and the Suburbs thereof and the Bills of Mortality and for regulating and licensing Stage-Coaches throughout England c. II. Licenses not to exceed 700. The said Commissioners shall give Licenses under their Hands and Seals to all Persons that shall keep any Coach or Coach-Horses within the Cities of London and Westminster or the Suburbs of the same or within the Weekly Bills of Mortality and that the number of all Hackney-Coaches so to be licensed shall not exceed 700 and for every such License so to be granted for each Coach there shall be paid to the Commissioners or some other Person to be appointed by their Majesties
l. for every 100 l. value CXXV For every dozen pounds of Thread Outnel 4 s. CXXVI For all Tapistry and Dornix except such as are manufactured in or brought from the French Kings Dominions 10 l. for every 100 l. value CXXVII For unwrought Inkle one Moiety more then what is now paid for the same CXXVIII For all Pan-tiles 8 s. the 1000. CXXIX For Dying-wood except Red Wood from Guinea Drugs and Logwood 5 l. for every 100 l. value CXXX For Bees-wax 5 l. for every 100 l. value CXXXI For every Tun of French Wine 8 l. above all Duties already charged CXXXII Upon all French Goods and Merchandize except Wine Brandy Salt and Vinegar 25 l. for every 100 l. value CXXXIII For Alamodes and Lutestrings 15 l. for every 100 l. value CXXXIV For Latten Brass or Copper-wire 6 s. 6 d. the 100 Weight containing 112 pounds CXXXV For Goods not particularly rated in the Book of Rates paying Duty at value 5 l. for every 100 l. value upon the Importer's Oath according to the Direction of the Book of Rates except such Goods as are particularly charged by this Act or an Act of this Parliament Entituled An Act for Granting to Their Majâ—sties certain Impositions upon all East-India Goods c. CXXXVI For every Gallon of Strong Water Aqua vitae or Brandy commonly called Single Brandy to be paid by the Importer before landing 2 s. above the Duties at any time before the Second year of Their Majesties Reign payable for the same CXXXVII For every Gallon of Strong Waters Spirits or Brandy above Proof called Double Brandy to be paid as aforesaid 4 s. CXXXVIII Two Clauses in an Act made the Second year of Their Majesties Reign Entituled An Act for Granting to Their Majesties several Additional Duties upon Beer Ale and other Liquors for Four Years c. concerning Single Brandy Spirits or Aqua vitae and Brandy Spirits or Aqua vitae above Proof shall from the 1st day of March 1692. be repealed CXXXIX The Rates and Impositions hereby imposed to be raised except where it is otherwise hereby directed according to the Act of Tonnage and Poundage and the Directions thereunto annexed or any other Laws now in force relating to the Customs CXL The several Rates and Duties upon Single and Double Brandy shall be levied according to the Directions of an Act made in the 12th year of K. Charles II. Entituled An Act for taking away the Court of Wards and Liveries c. and of another Act in the 15th year of His Reign Entituled An Additional Act for the better Ordering and Collecting the Duty of Excise c. or of any other Law in force relating to the Excise CXLI The Importers giving Security at the Custom house shall have a Twelve Months time for paying the Additional Duties hereby imposed by 4 quarterly Payments and for ready Money shall have 10 l. per Cent. abated And if such Goods be again exported within a Twelve Month by any Merchant English or within 9 Months by Strangers the Duty shall be repaid or the Security vacated for what shall be exported all Brandy excepted CXLII The Duties hereby charged upon Amber-Beads Amber rough Coral-Beads and polished Coral and all Couries to be repaid to the Merchant exporting the same within 3 years after the Importation thereof CXLIII No Brandy shall be imported in any Vessel not containing 60 Gallons at the least on pain of forfeiting the same or the Value one half to Their Majesties and the other half to the Informer CXLIV The Officers concerned in levying the Duties arising by this Act shall keep a separate Account thereof and pay the same in specie into the Exchequer weekly and upon neglect or refusal shall forfeit their Places CXLV During the continuance of the said Act Entituled An Act for Granting to Their Majesties certain Impositions upon all East-India Goods c. the Sum of 5 l. only shall be paid for every 100 l. Value of Raisins above the Rates thereon charged in the Book of Rates and 50 s. for every 100 l. Value of Currans above the Rates in the Book of Rates any thing in the said Act to the contrary notwithstanding the same to be Collected as by the said Act is directed CXLVI No piece of Calico Imported during the continuance of the said last recited Act of the breadth of One yard and a quarter shall exceed in length Ten yards and no Piece above that breadth shall exceed Six yards and Pieces exceeding those lengths shall be Rated according to the length of Ten yards and Six yards for each Piece and pay in that proportion according to the Sum rated in the Book of Rates and the Subsidy and additional Duty shall be Collected and Paid according to that Admeasurement CXLVII Linen of Prussia Polonia or any part of the East Countrey except Russia above the breadth of three quarters and half a quarter of a yard shall pay as broad Germany Linen and whited Hinderlands from the same Countries under that breadth shall pay as narrow East Countrey Linen CXLVIII During the continuance of an Act made in the First year of Their Majesties Reign Entituled An Act for charging and Collecting the Duties upon Coffee c. at the Custom-house there shall be paid to Their Majesties for every 100 Weight of Coffee Imported 56 s. and no more and for every Pound of Cocao Nuts Imported from any of our own Plantations 6 d. and no more and from any other Countries 8 d. and for every pound of Tea Imported from whence it Lawfully may 1 s. and no more and for every pound of Chocolate 1 s. and no more any thing in the said recited Act to the contrary notwithstanding CLXIX The Duties hereby charged upon Coffee Cocao Nuts Tea and Chocolate to be paid over and above the Duties Charged upon them in the Book of Rates CL. No Foreign Alamodes and Lutestrings shall be Imported after the 25 day of March 1693. but upon notice first given to the Commissioners or Farmers of the Customs of the Quality and Quantity Marks Numbers and Package thereof with the Name of the Ship and Master and the Place where they intend to import the same and taking a licence from the said Commissioners or Farmers or any Three of them for the Lading and Importing thereof which Licence shall be Granted without Fee the said Goods Imported without such Notice and Licence shall be Forfeited one Moiety to Their Majesties and the other Moiety to him that will seize or sue for the same CLI Officers of the Customs for passing any Debenture for Repayment of the Duties to be paid back on Exportation according to this or any other Act shall only receive such Fees as were payable for Debentures for the Repayment of the half Subsidy according to the Book of Rates and no more nor shall any Fee be taken for any Oath to be Administred at the custom-Custom-house upon this Act. CLII. The Act made in the 3d Year
of Their Majesties Reign Entituled An Act for Granting to Their Majesties certain Impositions upon Beer Ale and other Liquors for one year so far as it relates to Elections of Members to serve in Parliament and leaving true Notes in Writing of the last Gauges with the Penalties relating thereunto shall from the First Day of March next be revived and continue during the continuance of this Act and from thence to the End of the next Session of Parliament CLIII It shall be Lawful to Lend and Advance to Their Majesties upon the Credit of this Act any Sum or Sums not exceeding in the whole 510000 l. and to receive for forbearance 8 l. per Cent. per Aanum CLIV. Officers concerned in Levying the Duties arising by this Act shall keep a separate account thereof and pay the same in specie into the Exchequer every Wednesday unless it be a Holyday and then the day after and upon neglect or refusal shall incur the Penalties c. that other Officers of the Exchequer before mentioned shall be liable to which Moneys shall be applied to the Uses mentioned in this Act. CLV Out of the Money which shall be paid into the Exchequer upon Loan or otherwise by Virtue of this or any other Act of this Session of Parliament for Granting Aids and Supplies c. other then an Act Entituled An Act for Granting to Their Majesties an Aid of Four Shillings in the Pound c. the Sum of 1226516 l. shall be Appropriated for the payment of Officers and Seamen and for Stores Provisions and Victuals for the Navy and to the Expences of the Ordnance in respect to Naval Affairs and other necessary Uses for the Navy And if any Officer belonging to the Revenue Exchequer Navy or Ordnance wittingly divert any Part of the Money hereby Appropriated to any other purpose he shall lose his Place and be disabled to execute any Office whatsoever CLVI The additional Duties imposed by this Act shall not affect such Foreign Stores as have been sold to the use of the Navy by Contract with the Navy-board before the First of January 1692. so as a Certificate be given by the Commissioners of the Navy that such Stores have been so Contracted for and so as the Importer make Oath of the Truth of the Contract and that he will deliver them into their Majesties Stores accordingly CLVII Commissioners and Patent-Officers their Deputies Clerks and Servants who have or shall have any Imployment about the Customs shall before the 19th Day of April next or at their admissions hereafter take their Oaths for the true Execution to the best of their Knowledge and Power of their several Trusts and Employments and that they will take no Reward or Gratuity but their respective Salaries and what is or shall be allow'd them by the Crown or the Regular Fees Established by Law for any Service done or to be done in the Execution of their Employments CLVIII Stat. 4 5 W. M. cap. 15. The several Impositions and Duties upon Wines and Vinegar Granted by an Act made the First year of the late King James 2d Entituled An Act for Granting His Majesty an Imposition upon all Wines and Vinegar Imported between the 24th of June 1685. and the 24th of June 1693. Which by an Act of this present Parliament was continued from the said 24th of June 1693. to the 24th of June 1696. shall be farther continued until the 24th of June 1698. CLIX. The Rates Duties and Impositions for Tobacco Granted by an Act in the 1st Year of the Reign of the said late King James 2d 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. which said Act as concerning Impositions upon Tobacco only by an Act of this present Parliament was farther continued unto the 24th day of June 1696. shall be continued from the said 24th day of June 1696. to the 24th of June 1698. CLX The Additional and other Impositions and Duties upon several sorts of Goods and Merchandize Granted by an Act of this present Parliament in the Second year of Their Majesties Reign Entituled An Act for Granting to Their Majesties certain Impositions upon all East India Goods and Manufactures and upon all wrought Silks c. to be Imported after the 25th day of Decemb. 1690. and which were to have continuance to the 10th day of Novemb. 1695. shall be continued from the 9th day of November 1695. to the 10th day of November 1697. CLXI Any Persons may advance Moneys upon the Security of this Act not exceeding in the whole 500000. l. and to have any Sum for forbearance nor exceeding 8 l. per Cent. per Annum CLXII There shall likewise be paid to Their Majesties 5 l. for every 100 l. of the Joynt-Stock of the East-India Company the said Stock being valued at 744000 l. The same to be paid by the Governour and Treasurer of the Company by Four Quarterly Payments the First on the 25 of March 1693. and to be deducted upon the next Dividend CLXIII And for every Share in the Joynt-Stock of the African Company as the Number of Shares are now reckoned there shall be paid to Their Majesties the Sum of 20 s. by the Governour and Treasurer of that Company by Four Quarterly Payments the First to be made on the said 25th of March 1693. and to be deducted as aforesaid CLXIV And for every Share in the Joynt-Stock of the Hudson's Bay Company as the number of Shares are now reckon'd there shall be paid the Sum of 5 l. by the Governour and Treasurer of that Company ut supra And for default of Payment at the Days and Times aforesaid the Charter of such Company respectively shall be void CLXV From and after the Sixth Day of April 1693. none shall be admitted to swear to a Debanture for any Duties to be drawn back upon Re-exportation but he who is the true Exporter as being either Interested in the Goods or Employed by Commission CLXVI All Persons who by way of Insurance or otherwise shall undertake to deliver any Goods Imported from beyond Sea without paying the Duties payable for the same or any Prohibited Goods and shall deliver or cause to be delivered the same as aforesaid knowing thereof and all their Abbettors shall for every such offence forfeit 500 l. above the Forfeitures to which they are already liable CLXVII And all who shall agree to pay any Money for the Insuring or Conveying any Goods Imported without paying the Duties or any Prohibited Goods or shall receive such prohibited Gods or such other Goods before the Duties are paid knowing thereof shall also Forseit for every offence 500 l. the one Moiety of the said Forfeitures to Their Majesties and the other to the Informer CLXVIII And if the Insurer or Manager of such Fraud be the Discoverer he shall not only keep the Insurance Money given him and be discharged of